Ninth Generation

4128. Harry Chester Bedwell¹⁴¹⁷ was born on 8 Jan 1888 in Ridley Township, Ringgold County, Iowa.^502,1416 He died on 4 Oct 1955 in Nevada City, Nevada County, California.^{502,2108,2109} He was buried in Rose Hills Cemetery, Whittier, California.²¹⁰⁹

• Harry Bedwell was the author of some 70 short stories and one novel, all of the type dubbed "railroad fiction". He is considered one of the greats of that now largely forgotten genre. His stories were regularly published in popular magazines of his era. His life was the subject of a biography by Frank P. Donovan, Jr.: Harry Bedwell, Last of the Great Railroad Storytellers.

• The Trainmaster, the newsletter of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, in Portland, Oregon, ran this notice of his death in their March 31, 1956 issue: "Harry Bedwell, one of our charter members, passed away on October 4, 1955. Mourned by his widow Lorraine and members of this chapter, he will be missed by millions of readers. Harry Bedwell ranked second to none as a railroad fictioneer. Railroad Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, and other periodicals published his many stories, most of which have become classics. As a small tribute to a great author Railroad Magazine reprinted one of them, "Sun and Silence" in the April issue. His close friend, Bill Knapke, found in his desk an unpublished manuscript, "The Sound of an Avalanche", and sold it to the Saturday Evening Post for a price that ran well into four figures."

• Harry Bedwell had no children.

• World War I Draft Registration Card shows Harry Chester Bedwell as tall and slender with yellow hair and gray eyes.

Harry Chester Bedwell and Ellen Hart Talbot were married. Ellen Hart Talbot²¹¹⁰ died in 1934.²¹¹¹ She was buried in Rose Hills Memory Park, Whittier, California.⁶⁵

Harry Chester Bedwell and Lorraine Richardson were married on 13 May 1940.