Isaac Bell Jr

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Isaac Bell Jr. (November 6, 1846 - January 29, 1889)

Born in New York City, New York. Successful cotton broker and investor. Married Jeanette Gordon Bennett in 1878, sister James Gordon Bennett, Jr. publisher of the New York Herald. He had three children ; Valentine Mott Bell, Olivia Bell, and Isaac Bell III.

Resided in one of New York’s cities first co-op duplex apartment buildings; Knickerbocker. The building was designed in 1882 by Charles Clinton for Ernest Flagg. In 1883, built the Isaac Bell House, which is one of the famous Guilded Age summer “cottages” in Newport, Rhode Island. It was designed by McKim, Mead, and White and is considered of the best remaining examples of Shingle Style architect

Active in politics, he served as the U.S. Minister to Netherlands from 1885-88, as well as a delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island in 1888. As a business man he was known for his ties with the French bank Lentilhon Company and was one of the key investor in the Commercial Cable Companythat broke the Transatlantic cable monopoly.

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