Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Samuel Bell Jr.
BELL, SAMUEL JR. (1854–1912), inducted between 1920–1936
Born in Bole, Nottinghamshire, England, Samuel Bell and his bother William immigrated to America as young men, settling in Wooster, Ohio, in 1880. They imported Shire and Belgian horses, and beginning in 1893, concentrated the Bell Brothers business on Percherons. Samuel Bell was on the board of directors of the American Shire Horse Association and president of the American Association of Importers and Breeders of Belgian Draft Horses. His son, also named Samuel, was a prominent livestock judge, officiating at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The latest located record indicates that the younger Bell was still active in 1919, shipping American-bred draft horses to Belgium, to assist with anticipated shortages caused by the Great War.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 47