Charles S. Bell Charles S. Bell Charles Steele Bell (October 8, 1880 – May 6, 1965) was a lawyer from Cincinnati, Ohio who served as a prosecutor and judge. He was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio 1942–1947. Charles S. Bell was born October 8, 1880 in Carthage, Ohio to Samuel and Mary Alice Logan Bell. When his father died, Bell dropped out of school at age sixteen to support his family. He was a railway clerk, and studied law at the night school of the YMCA School of Law (Cincinnati). He graduated in 1908, and was admitted to the Ohio
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