Mabel Hubbard Bell
wife of Alexander Bell
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Mabel Hubbard Bell was the wife of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. She became deaf at age five due to scarlet fever and was one of Bell's students. Bell, who was a teacher of the deaf, began working with Mabel in 1873 when she was 15. Despite a 10-year age difference, they fell in love and married in 1877. Mabel Hubbard Bell was a significant figure in Alexander Graham Bell's life, and her deafness influenced his lifelong commitment to deaf education.123
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