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| image     = Goodloe_Harper_Bell.jpg
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| caption  = Goodloe Harper Bell
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1832|4|7|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Watertown, New York]]
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1899|1|17|1832|4|7|mf=y}} (age {{Age|1832|04|07|1899|01|17}})
| death_place = Battle Creek, [[Michigan]]
| occupation     = Teacher, Author and Founder of the Seventh-day Adventist [[List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities|school system]]
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'''Goodloe Harper Bell''' (April 7, 1832 – January 17, 1899), born to David and Lucy Bell, was the first teacher at the first [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] school and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist [[Seventh-day Adventist education|school system]].<ref>[http://www.andrews.edu/about/index.html About Andrews :: Andrews University<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> This first school was located on the first floor of the old ''[[Adventist Review|Review and Herald]]'' building in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]]. Bell and his family lived on the second floor.

An original portrait of G. H. Bell resides at the Andrews University Museum. It was donated by Dr. Lavan C. and Junette Mapes.

Some of his early students include [[Edson White|Edson]] and [[William C. White|Willie White]], sons of [[James Springer White|James]] and [[Ellen G. White]]. Ellen White was a great supporter and influence to G. H. Bell. Others included in the roster of his early students are two notable brothers, [[William K. Kellogg]] and [[John Harvey Kellogg]].<ref>[http://www.whiteestate.org/pathways/gbell.asp Ellen G. White Estate: Pathways of the Pioneers - Goodloe Bell<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Genealogical information==
Bell was the eldest of ten children born to David and Lucy Bell née Blodgett.  Bell's sister Florilla and her husband Charles Miller are the great-grandparents of [[Burt Reynolds]]. {{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}

==Textbooks by Bell==
* Bell's Language Series - Circa. 1896
** Book 1/Primary Language Lessons
** Book 2/Elementary Grammar
** Book 3/Complete Grammar
** Book 4/Rhetoric, Higher English
** Book 5/Studies in English Lit
* Bible Lessons for the Sabbath School vol. 1 to 8 - Circa. 1887
* Progressive Bible Lessons for Children - Circa. 1872

== See also ==
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* [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]]
* [[History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church]]
* [[Andrews University]]

==References==
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* Allan Lindsay, "Goodloe Harper Bell, pioneer Seventh-day Adventist Christian educator" (1982). Andrews University, EdD thesis ([https://www.proquest.com/docview/303092663 abstract] and [https://www.proquest.com/docview/303092663 summary] available online)

==External links==
* [http://www.whiteestate.org/pathways/gbell.asp Pathways of the Pioneers biography] from the [[Ellen G. White Estate]]
* [http://www.connecticut-adventist.org/Bible_Study/PioneerStories/goodloe_harper_bell.htm] Pioneer Stories by The Connecticut Valley Adventist Church
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202064901/http://www.andrews.edu/about/history.html] Andrews University History

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