• Birth name : Alexander Graham Bell

• Place of birth : Edinburgh, Scotland

• Date of birth : March 3, 1847

• What was some of his early life :

o He had two brothers: Melville James
Bell and Edward Charles Bell
o both his brother died of tuberculosis
o His mother went deaf when he was
12

• When did he move to Canada :

o In 1870
o 23 years old
o Bell and his brother's widow
Caroline came to visit the Reverend Thomas Henderson (a
family friend) Until they bought 10.5 acres
near Brantford, Ontario

• What did he do to become famous : invented the telephone

in 1876

• 2 other interesting facts

o He did not have a middle name like his two brothers until
he was 11 years old and his dad gave him the middle name
of Graham for his birthday

o July 11, 1877, a few days after the Bell Telephone

Company was established, Bell married Mabel Hubbard.
They had four children. Elsie May Bell, Marian Hubbard
Bell and two sons who died in infancy.