Alexander Graham Bell Love Life & Marriage

That is the way matters stood on Thanksgiving Day, 1875, which was also Mabel's eighteenth birthday. Alexander Graham Bell put aside his pride to call at the Hubbard home and wish her a happy birthday. It was then that Mabel Hubbard showed her true spirit. Mabel confronted her father. She told him she loved Alexander Graham Bell and from this moment on she considered herself engaged to him. If Hubbard cut off his support of Alexander Graham Bell, he was cutting off his own daughter.

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell 's father to future wife of Alexander Graham Bell

Not long after, Mabel Hubbard received a letter from Alexander Graham Bell 's father about her upcoming marriage. It read in part:

"Alec is a good fellow and, I have no doubt, will make an excellent husband. He is hotheaded but warm-hearted.... sentimental, dreamy, and self-absorbed, but sincere and unselfish. He is ambitious, to a fault, and is apt to let enthusiasm run away with his judgment."

All in all, Mabel Hubbard felt she was getting a good deal. The engagement between Mabel Hubbard and Alexander Graham Bell became official.

Alexander Graham Bell 's marriage

Two days after the Bell Company was formed, Alexander Graham Bell married Mabel Hubbard. The marriage lasted a happy 35 years and produced two daughters, Elsie and Daisy. Alexander Graham Bell was devoted to his children but sometimes gave more attention to his work, and to others more needy than his family. The children and Mabel occasionally made mild complaints about the time Alexander Graham Bell spent away from them, and at such times he'd admit his error, apologize for his selfishness, and try to reform.

For their honeymoon, the Bells traveled to Niagara Falls and then on to England to introduce the telephone to his native continent. They returned home the following year and moved to Washington D.C.