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Raymond Ellsworth Bell agency manager of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company at Milwaukee, was born in Ellenvllle, Ulster county. New York. His father, Alexander Lock wood Bell of Scotch and English ancestry, is now residing in Australia and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth De Witt, is a direct descendant of the early Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam. Raymond E. Bell was born among the Catskills, in one of the picturesquely beautiful sections of New York state. He pursued his education in the public schools of Ulster county. New York, and of New York city and in the high schools of Chicago. He had had a large and varied accounting experience through several years when he entered the selling profession in the adding machine business in 1910, receiving the appointment of agency manager for the Burroughs Adding Machine Company on September 1, 1917.

On the 8th of January, 1916, Mr. Bell married Hertha Jaeschke, daughter of Henry Jaeschke, a successful merchant of Chicago, who was born in Germany and died in Chicago in 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Bell have an adopted son, Lewis Jae, nine years of age, and an adopted daughter, Doris Ruth, seven years of age, both attending the Milwaukee Normal Practice School.

In politics Mr. Bell maintains an independent course. He is a member of the Davenport Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M. of Davenport, Iowa; Lafayette Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M., of Chicago; Palestine Council, No. 66, R. & S. M. of Chicago; Ivanhoe Commandery, K. T. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Consistory of Milwaukee; and Tripoli Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is identified with Milwaukee Lodge, No. 46, B. P. O. E., and carries memberships in the Association of Commerce, having served as chairman of its publicity committee until he resigned in 1921. His social connections are with the Milwaukee Athletic Club, Tripoli Golf Club, Racine Country Club, the Wisconsin Club and the Milwaukee Yacht Club. He is an enthusiastic golfer and enjoys all manly athletic sports. The major part of his time is naturally given to his business affairs and his course is marked by that steady progress which results from close application, thoroughness, determination and broad vision. As a citizen he is keenly interested in all that has to do with the material, Intellectual, social and moral welfare of Milwaukee and his cooperation can be counted upon to further any well devised plan for the public good.