Alexander Graham Bell’s granddaughter dies at 101 The Chronicle Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) October 31, 2006 By JOCELYN BETHUNE BADDECK — Mabel Grosvenor, a granddaughter of famed telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and likely the last person who had personal memories of him, died Monday at Baddeck. She was 101. Born at Beinn Bhreagh, the Bells’ Cape Breton summer home, on July 28, 1905, she was the third child of Elsie Bell Grosvenor and Gilbert Grosvenor, longtime editor of National Geographic magazine. While her parents travelled, writing and photographing faraway places for the publication, Mabel spent many summers...