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Bell, Elsie May, b. 1878
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Elsie May Bell was born on 8 May 1878, the daughter of Mabel (Hubbard) and Alexander Graham Bell. Her father was world- renowned for his invention of the telephone and his numerous experiments on flight and sound. As an adult, and following the death of her father, she and her sister Marian established a museum at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, devoted to their famous father.