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3322 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANStion in the Southeast he was one of the leaders in organizing the AtlantaSchool of Medicine, and later was active in consolidating the Atlanta schoolwith the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons, the new school takingthe name of the original Atlanta Medical College. He had also been influentialin organizing the original College of Physicians and Surgeons. Ho is professor of abdominal surgery and clinical gynecology in the Atlanta School ofMedicine and occupied that chair in the new school and the old for a numberof years. He is a member of the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons,is a member and for some years was vice president of the American Gynecological Society, has served as president and vice president of the SouthernSurgical Gynecological Association, as vice president of the American MedicalAssociation in the obstetrical section, has been president of the Medical Association of Georgia, the Atlanta Medical Society and of the Fulton CountyMedical Society. He also belongs to the Southern Medical Association, theAmerican Association of Obstetricians, is a governor of the American Collegeof Surgeons, is a member of the State Committee of Physicians on recruitingservice for the Medical Corps and is a national committeeman of the Red CrossAssociation. .On January 25, 1884, Doctor Noble married Miss Mary L. Taliaferro,daughter of Doctor ..Taliaferro under whom he had first studied medicine.Their marriage was an important event in Atlanta society, since it broughtabout the union of two of the oldest and best known families of the city andstate. Doctor Noble was for twenty years a vestryman in St. Phillip's Episcopal Church of Atlanta, and is now senior warden and trustee.CIIARLKS GRANDT BELL. The numerous distinctions and associations ofCharles Grandy Bell with Savannah business affairs are readily recognized,but his forceful energy and creative work are not confined alone to that city.Many men place him among the leading financiers and promoters of the entireSouth.Mr. Bell performed a large and important share in increasing the prestigeof Savannah as a great cotton trading center. This city has built up a reputation as a port of export for cotton with a rank among the first of the world'sports in this particular commodity. Only recently Mr. Bell -was one of theleaders in forming the Savannah Warehouse and Compress Company, whichwas organized in 19]6 and which practically fortifies Savannah's importanceas a cotton export city. This company combines all the cotton firms ofSavannah and plans arc already being carried out for the construction of 100warehouses to handle the aggregate products. The organization of this company comes at the high tide of Mr. Bell's career, and while it stands as hismost important accomplishment to date, it only suggests what may be expectedof him in the remaining years of his useful life.He has not only been a cotton merchant and exporter, but has had a prominent part in the manufacture! of fertilizers. Mr. Bell has for many years beena member of the well known firm of Butler, Stevens and Bell. Prior to thathe was an employe of Messrs. Butler and Stevens but in 1891 became a member of the firm. His energy, his ability and his splendid business poise broughtfrom his employers the recognition which resulted in his being made a closerbusiness associate through the medium of a partnership.Though, .not a Georgian by birth, Mr. Bell has spent most of his activecareer in this state. He was born near Greenville, Florida, February 9, 1858.Though fifty-eight years of age, and in spite of the strenuous and forcefullife he has lived, he would hardly be taken to. be more than forty. He isstrong, energetic, active, constantly busy, and yet like all men of great powerand execution, he has plenty time for charitable, church and civic work.The Bell family in America dates back to Richard Bell, who came fromEngland in the seventeenth century and settled in what was then a part of