GENEALOGY OF THE RUSSELL FAMILY

Compiled and written by Lewis Clark Russell

State of Illinois.

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DEDICATION I dedicate this Genealogy to all of the living great grandchildren of John Russell the Soldier; also to all of my own nieces and nephews, gratis. LEWIS CLARK RUSSELL.

RUSSELL GENEALOGY

The growing interest in ancestry indicates that Americans are fast coming to believe that it is of some consequence tc:, know from whom they are descended. Long lines of ancestry are revealed in each person, and this ancestry if understood will assist materially in various directions. It is a pride which deserves encouragement. One cannot know too much about one's self, and in acqu1nng knowledge of his· ancestors he is learning the most important facts about his personality. Biography is the most fascinating branch of history. And it may well be since it is the one branch which has life. Everything else may be a n1ere catalog of dates, but genealogy introduces the student to the actual personage and offers him the most compl~te means of obtaining an accurate understanding of the occurrences of the past. If every member of the Russell family knew more of the early history of our forefathers, they certainly would consider it a rich legacy to hand down to their Posterity. In our own time of zealous reforms and great advances, the means of pursuing such a study seems comparatively limited. The demand for such a biography to fill this span, has led the author to the preparation of this volume to place in each Library in the Russell family, without remuneration. Sincere!y yours, LEWIS CLARK RUSSELL.

THE RUSSELLS IN ENGLAND

The House of Russell figures more extensively than any other of the British aristocracy in history of the past four centuries. It derives its origin f1·om the De Rozels of N orm.andy and in a record of the times of Edward 1st they are mentioned as having held Kingston Russell in Dorset from the time of the Norman Conquest. 1 The fortune of the family dates from the reigrr of Henry VII, when Archduke Philip of Austria was ship,vreeked near Weymouth while on a voyage from France to Spain. When the Archduke proceeded to London and Windsor on the invitation of Henry VII, he took with him John Russell as interpreter and the young fellow became so great a favorite first of Henry VII and then with Henry VIII, that the latter King raised him to the peerage besides bestowing upon him an immense amount of property in the shape of confiscated monastaries. "All things come to him who waits, But here's a rule that's slicker; The man who goes for what he wants Will get it all the quicker."

GENEALOGY OF THE RUSSELL FAMILY Compiled and written by Lewis Clark Russell, Warren, Jo Daviess County, State of Illinois.

For forty-five years we have been gathering facts and ir:format;on of the Russell family which could be obtained from reliable sources. So far as could be ascertained and determined with any degre~ of c~rtainty, our first ancestor on the Paternal side ever residing in this country was John Russell the Emigrant, who is believed to be the original progenitor of the Russells in America. Dr. Gurdon W. Russell of Hartford, after living more than four score and ten years in Connecticut, being well posted in the record of the family, decided on being more positive in regard to his progenitors from the time they left E _rope down to Stephen Russell, .born Oct. 10, 1710. I:aving access to all papers relating to the estates of Deceased persons, as Wills, Inventories of Estates, Deeds, Mortgages, and other papers, he found in the office of the Secretary of State in Hartford and Boston, aided by some dccu.ments procured from his agent in England and with thrse records before him he sifted out these facts that, John Russell, the Emigrant, was a great grandfather to Stephen, the farmer, and from my father, Dr. George W. Russell's memoirs of the family, Stephen Russell was his grandfather. We have at different times come in possession of records of the Russell family, beginning with John Russell, the Emi­ gr .int, and running through different individuals in the 2nd and 3rd generati~ns, to Stephen Russell, the farmer, born 10 RUSSELLS AT HADLEY

Oct. 30, 1710. So we have become quite skeptical in regard to the early settlement of the Russells in America, but on receiving a statement from Albert B. Russell of New York, which corroborates with this record, I am well satisfied that this Genealogy, so far as our lineage is concerned between John Russell, the Emigrant, to Stephen Russell, the farmer, is absolutely correct. While Albert B. Russell of Ilian, N. Y ., is a descendant of Rev. John, the founder of Hadley, we are descendants of Philip Russell, the younger brother of Rev. John Russell. JOHN RUSSELL, THE EMIGRANT

.CHAPTER I

Was born at Ipswic, England, in 1597 and came to America on the ship Defence in company with Rev. Thomas Shepherd and brought his two sons with him, John and Philip, and landed in Boston, Oct. 3, 1635. They settled in Cambridge, Mass., and soon made arrangements to have his son John attend Harvard College. In England he was a follower of Cromwell and a Freeman, in America a prominent citizen of Cambridge. It is supposed that his wife died in England as there is no mention of her death in Cambridge or Wethersfield. He was made Freeman March 3, 1636, Surveyor of Arms in 1638, Selectman in 1642 and in 1643 Clerk of the writs and Constable in 1648. His son John graduated at Harvard in 1645 as the seventeenth graduate of that college. After graduating John remained at home three or four years, filling many positions of trust. As his son John got married and received a call to preach and moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Rev. Henry Smith who died in 1648, lea-ving a wife. Dorotha and one daughter, Joanna, born Dec. 25, 1641, he also moved to Wethersfield and soon married for his second wife ( 2) Mrs. Dorotha Smith, widow of the late Rev. Smith. Russell, the Emigrant, and his son Philip moved to the homestead of the deceased clergyman, with Dorotha and her daughter, Joanna Smith. About the year 1660 he and his wife and their children removed to Hadley, Mass., where the son, Rev. John Russell was preaching. He was made Freeman March 26, 1661, and May 22nd of the same year the General Court of Massa­ chusetts appointed him Clerk of the writs of Hadley. He was a glazier by occupation, a trade that required some skill in the _days of diamond glass. 12 RUSSELLS AT HADLEY

In his comments, Mr. Judge says, "The early settlers were generally thrifty and substantial men. They all have lands and derive the greater part of their support from their crops. From all appearance he lived an enjoyable life in Cambridge, Wethersfield and Hadley, and was always a leader among men. He was chosen on a committee of five to examine the old records to the cow commons and copy and complete the same. Henry Dinston, President of Harvard College, was President of the committee. His children were Rev. John Russell, born at Ipswic in 1626 and Philip Russell, born in Ipswic perhaps about 1629. John the Emigrant, died May 8, 1680, his wife Dorotha, probably 1694. His will was probated December, 1694. Thus ends the life of the progenitor of the Russell family in America.

REV. JOHN RUSSELL Of Cambridge, Harvard College, Wethersfield and Hadley, eldest son of John the Emigrant, was born at Ipswic, Eng­ land, about 1626. When nine years of age he emigrated with his father and brother Philip to America and landed at Boston, Oct. 3, 1635 and settled at Cambridge, Mass. He attended Harvard College and graduated there in 1645 as the 17th graduate of that Institution and remained at home, filling many positions of trust until he married June 28th, 1649, M~_~y Tal~ot, born in England, the only child of Wor­ shipful John and Dorotha. (Mott) Talcot of Hartford, Conn. This might have brought him to the notice of the church at Wethersfield, Conn., and led to his settlement there, but at all events he received a. call to come and succeed the late Rev. ~enry Smith in the ministry at that place in 1649. He was an able preacher but unfortunately for him, as had been the case with his predecessor, dissension arose in his RUSSELLS AT HADLEY 13 flock, which compelled him with a considerable part of his congregation to leave the Wethersfield Church, to form a new one at Hadley, Mass. The dissension existed before l\'.Ir. Russell went to Wethersfield, and very likely so worried the Rev. Mr. Smith that he died in 1648 from the effects of it. Like trouble existed in the other chu:rches where there was d~fference arising in religious matters where both parties were very certain that they were wholly in the right, and just as positive that their opponents were wholly in the wrong. One of their differences was some opinion in regard to the John Hopkins School, which was too trifling to mention. For th~ purpose of living in peace a party in Hartford and a majority of the church members in Wethersfield with Mr. Russell as their leader, determined to move from the juris­ diction of Connecticut, into that of Massachusetts. They obtained permission from the Court of that Common­ wealth, which was glad to receive so goodly a company of settlers. Their de~ision was rendered May, 1658. An agree­ ment w~s entered into with the Hartford people, April 18, 1659, with those wishing to join the new colony. Part of the settlers removed to Hadley in 1659, and the remainder came the following spring and established their planta~.ions on both sides of the Connecticut River, Hadley on the east and Hatfield on the west bank. Mr. Russell of Wethersfield, was ardent, resolute and sometimes indiscreet and he had warm friends and powerful opponents. At Hadley he appea1ed to be an active and faith­ ful Pastor. As a preacher there is but little known respecting him. He pre-:tched the election sermon at Boston in May, 1666, from Psalms CXXII-II. · His fearlessness and constancy were manifested in his pro­ tection and concealment for 16 years of two of the Regicides of King Charles 1st, Whaley and Goff whom he truly viewed as sufferers in the cause of civil liberty. The New England people generally were friendly to the judges and believed 14 RUSSELLS AT HADLEY

that Charles was justly sentenced to death. Col. Dixwell, one of the judges coming to America with them, went to New Haven under an assumed name, and bearing about him an air of mystery, was respected and died in peace in 1689. Rev. John Russell married Mary Talcot in 1649. Their children are: 1. John, baptised Sept. 23, 1650. Died Jan. 20, 1670. Mary (Talcot) his wife died at Weathersfield in 1352. Rev. John married (2) R~b_ec_ca Newberry of Winstor, about 1653, her birth and death· unknown. The children of John and Rebecca (Newberry) R-..issell: 2. Jonathan, born Sept. 18, 1655. ~ 3. Samuel Russell, born Nov. 4, 1660. 4. Eleazer Russell, born Nov. 8, 1663. 5. Daniel Russell, born Feb. 8, 1666. Died Dec. 17, 1667. He married (3) Phebe Grigson, born Oct. 15, 1643, the daughter of Thomas Grigson and widow and second wife of Rev. John Whiting of Hartford, Conn. Rev. John Russell died at Hadley, Dec. 10, 1392. After his death she resided with her son Joseph Whiting in New Haven where she died Sept. 19, 1730. An inventory of his property was made Jan. 10, 1693, which makes mention of three negro slaves, a man, woman and a child, valued at 60 po:1nds ( $300) or $100 apiece. We have no knowledge of what became of them but at all events they were invoiced with the other property. How ridiculous to think of o:ir forefathers being slave holders and in the Abolition State of Massachusetts and a Minister at that. George Sheldon's Eulogy on Rev. John Russell on the 250th (at that time 90 years old) anniversary of the celebration of Old Hadley. In part: "I have the honor to be one of her messengers to bear the tokens of respect and love in doing homage to Hadley, which if not the eldest born, ranks first, when gauged by deeds of . RUSSELLS AT HADLEY 15

"high empryse. If any man is great enough to sanctify the soil, whereon his works are done, then the men and women of" Hadley may with one voice truly acclaim, 'Aye, call it holy ground, The path John Russell trod O'er watchful height, where valleys wound With eye which scanned each sod With ear attuned to softest sound, His feet with silence shod.' "Under the shadows of the primitive forest, across the wide meadows, on the banks of the gliding waters of Hadley walked one of the sons of men, for whose peer you may seek in vain over the whole broad sweep of the Connecticut val­ ley. His peer in true bravery and steadfast courage, when we consider the manliest attributes of the noblest men, it is of such, that the poet sings, 'Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time." REV. JONATHAN RUSSELL

Oldest child of John, l and Rebecca (Newberry) Russell was born Sept. 18, 1654: at Weathersfield. He too attended and graduated at Harvard College in 1675 and took his master's degree the same year. He married l\,Jartha-Moody, daughter of Rev. Joshua and Martha (Collins) Moody in 1680. He was ordained as pastor of the church in Barnstable, Mass., Sept. 19, 1683. This was his sole pastorate, as he died here on Feb. 21, 1710. REV. SAMUEL RUSSELL Second child of Rev. John and Rebecca (Newberry) Russell was born at Hadley, Mass., Nov. 4, 1660 and g1aduated at Harvard College in 1681, and married Abjgal _Whiting, born 1666, daughter of Rev. Jonathan and Sybil (Collins) Whiting 16 RUSSELLS AT HADLEY of Hartford, Conn. He died June 25, 1731. Abig2.l, his wife, died May 7, 1733. John, oldest son of Samuel and Abigal Russell, born Jan. 24, 1687. Graduated at Yale College in 1704. Abigal, born Aug. 10, 1690. Timothy, born Nov. 18, 1695. Samuel, born Sept. 28, 1693. Daniel, born June 19, 1698.

Letter from Albert B. Russell of Ilion, N. Y. The following letter shows very conclusively that the ac­ companying biography is correct to the b~st of my know:Pc.ge and belief. "Your letter of Aug".lst 4th, 1916, has just reached me and I have read it with much interest. "While we are related the connections date back to the Rev. John Russell of Hadley, Mass. "My line is as follows: "Rev. Samuel Russell, son of Rev. John of Hadley, was minister at Branford, Conn., and at his ho-:ise at Bran :o:r:l, the ministers of the colony met and organized Yale College. "His son Rev. Samuel was minister at Silford, Conn. "His son Samuel emigrated to Paris, Oneida county, N. Y. "His son Samuel Smithson Russell was a farmer at Paris, N. Y. "His son Samuel Baldwin Russell was a farmer at Paris, N. Y. "His son Albert Newton Russell moved to Virginia, b-.it at the outbreak of the civil war, being a northerner in his sentiments, came north and located at Ilion, in the employ of E. Remington & Sons, gun manufacturers, where he gained more or less local prominence, and when that concern failed he was one of the receivers thereof. "He also engaged in the retail lumber b".lsiness, and at the time of his death in 1913, he was one of the most honored a11d respected citizens of the community. RUSSELLS AT HADLEY 17

"His son Samuel Thomas was born in Virginia. He came with his parents to Ilion, where he was in the retail lumber business for many years, afterward going into the cabinet manufacturing business, and is now president of the corpor­ ation Library Bureau, with headquarters in Boston, where he makes his actual residence, retaining his legal residence at Ilion. "His son Albert Brill Russell is the writer of this sketch, born in Ilion and is at present the local factory manager of Liberty Bureau plant, which employs some 650 men at the present time."

STORY OF THE REGICIDES One of the greatest tragedies of the seventeenth century was the sentencing and execution of King Charles I of Eng­ land, Jan. 30, 1649, in London. Of the Judges who sentenced the King to death, the most vindictive perhaps was William Goff and his father-in-law, Edward Whaley. At the restoration of Charles II these men were sought for all over Christendom in vain. The story of the concealment is one of the most singular and mysterious in history. Whaley was a cousin of Cromwell and held high place in the Commonwealth. Goff was a member of Parliament and ~ Major General in Cromwell's army. Both men fled when Charles II returned to England in 166_Q.__ They came openly to Boston and were received cordially by the Puritan authorities. They lived comfortably at Cambridge for six months, went to church and public meetings and received visitors. News was then brought from England that seven of the regicides were condemned to death. Whaley and Goff who were of the number took alarm and fled to New Haven where they staid in hiding until a royal mandate was receiv•ed by the colonists ordering their arrest. Loyal young men set out eager as sleuth hounds to run down the fugitives and· traveled the country from Boston to South Carolina, summoning all good subjects of the King in 18 RUSSELLS AT HADLEY the King's name to aid in bringing the murderers to the gallows. The two judges in mortal terror left New Haven at night and took refuge in a mill at Hatchets Harbor, where they lay hid among the sacks of grain. Richard Sperry then brought them to a cave in the wild part of the forest. Here they lived for several months, their refuge being discovered by the Indians. The judges then fled to Milford and took refuge in Tomp­ kins' cellar for two years, from which they ~id not even venture once into the garden or orchard so constant was the danger of their discovery. At the end of this time, they were taken into the house of a Puritan minister, John Russell of Hadley, Mass. A secret chamber was built for them and there they remained for more than sixteen years not even the children of the family knowing of the presence of these hunted men in their home. Before they reached Hadley, they were pursued by a b:¼nd of unarmed men across a bridge, taking refuge behind a large sycamore, and they fired on their pursuers from both sides of the tree. The men held a counsel and resolved to go back to town for arms. When they came back the regicides had disappeared and the woods were searched for them in vain. They were all of the time under the bridge up to their necks in water. The feet of their pursuers tramped all night just over their heads. Goff being a soldier and of hotter blood than his companion twice ventured out of the secret chamber. Once Hadley was assailed by the Indians while the congregation was at wor­ ship in the church and the whites were hard pressed by their antagonists. Suddenly in the midst of the battle there appeared a tall and venerable man with a flowing beard and clad in a strange dress with a sword in hand, rallied the settlers, and led them to renewed effort, in which the savages were beaten back and put to flight. RUSSELLS AT HADLEY 19

Another time an English gentleman became straitened for money while in America and advertised he would give an exhibition sword play and challenged all comers to com­ bat. Nobody in the house could use a sword but while he stood on th~ stage flourishing his weapon, a farmer in a huge many caped coat advanced from the audience bearing a cheese for a shield and a mop dripping with mud as a weapon, he began to fight receiving the sword thrust in the cheese and occasionally daubing the face and laced doublet of his antagonist with the muddy broom. At last throwing away the shield he set to work in earnest using the broom as a sword and so rapid and fierce was his attack that in a few moments his antagonist was disarmed and his weapon sent spinning in the air. The Englishman stared in consternation and is reported to have said, "You are either the devil or William Goff." Goff it appears had taught this brother officer to fence and seeing his challenge, could not resist the temptation to have a bout with him. He hurried through the crowd into the night and vanished. He never appeared in the sight of man again. Whaley died in extreme old age, and was secretly buried by the minister in his cellar. Goff died a few years later and was buried in a mysterious nameless grave, lying across the boundary of two lots, it being on the property of two land holders as a kind of protection tc the grave. Go~'s diary in cipher was sent to the Boston Lib1·ary where it lay unread for nearly a century. It was deciphered at last and the story of the hiding place of the judges in the R ·,ssell house was revealed for the first time. Philip Russell, our Progenitor of Wethersfield and Hat­ field, youngest child of John Russell the Emigrant, was born at Ipswic, England, abo:.it 1628, and came to America with his fa~her and landed in Boston Oct. 3rd, 1635, and settled with his father at Cambridge until 1649, and then moved to W ::;thsrsfield, Conn., with his father and continued to live with him after he married Dorotha Smith and lived in the 20 RUSSELLS AT HADLEY

same family with Joanna Smith 13 years and married at Hadley in 1662 Joanna Smith , daughter of the late Rev. Henry and Dorotha (Smith) and settled in Hatfield, Mass. They had one child, Joanna born at Hatfield, Oct. 31. The mother and child apparently died at the same time, Dec. 29, 1664. In connection with his farming he was a glazier by trade the same as his father. In 1666 he married for his second (2) wife, Elizabeth Terry, born Jan. 4, 1642, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Terry of Hadley, and remained at Hatfield, Mass. Children of Philip and Elizabeth (Terry) Russell 1. John Russell, born at Hatfield, Mass., Jan. 2, 1667. 2. Samuel Russell, born at Hatfield in 1669, killed by Indians. 3. Philip Russell, born at Hatfield, Jan. 25, 1672, deceased young. 4. Stephen Russell, born at Hatfield, Oct. 12, 1674, killed by Indians. Mrs. Elizabeth Russell with l:..er two children were mas­ sacred at home, while her husband and their oldest son John ( our progenitor) were most likely at worship at the me~ting house at Hadley, where the thickest of the battle with the Indians was raging. History tells us that was an eventful day at Hadley. It was a day of fasting and prayer, among the colonists, on account of the Indian war, termed in history as King Philip's War, which was then raging. There was almost a universal uprising of the Indian tribes in New England on that day, and all the frontier towns (Hadley included) were especially exposed while the congregation was observing a fast because of the war. It was during this public meeting that the town was suddenly attacked by the Indians. The custom of the frontier towns during those Indian wars was for a certain number of men to go armed to all public meetings, and they were so prepared on this occasion. RUSSELLS AT HADLEY 21

When the Indians made their attack on Hadley, the congre­ gation immediately took their arms and went out to protect their village, but not being skilled in military tactics, they were soon thrown into consternation and confusion, and hard pressed by their antagonists. Suddenly in the midst of the battle there appeared a tall and venerable man with a flowing beard, and clad in a strange dress . • With sword in hand, he rallied the settlers, and led them to a new effort in which the savages were beaten back and put to flight. When the battle was over, the stranger could not be found, and the wondering people declared that he was an angel sent by God for their deliverance. It was Goff, the regicide, who had suddenly left his place of concealment to aid his country­ men in their struggle with the savages. He had been lying in concealment_ at the house of Russell, the minister of Had­ ley, and returned to his place of refuge when the danger was over. After this battle and massacre, the v,hites were so en­ raged that one thousand men, under the command of Joseph Winslow invaded the Indian territory, stormed a fort in which were four thousand Indians, utterly destroying their village with all of its stores. The complete destruction of Philip's own tribe left him without friends or resources. Deserted and alone he took refuge at Mt. Hope, R. I., and was there attacked by a party under Capt. Church, and in attempting to flee he was killed by an Indian. His body was cut in quarters, and his head was sent to Plymouth, where it was exposed on a gibbet for twelve years. In this war thirteen towns were completely destroyed, six hundred buildings were burned, six hundred of the colonists were slain, and the expenses which were paid mostly by the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies were nearly one million dollars. SERGEANT JOHN RUSSELL

CHAPTER II

• Oldest child of Philip and Elizabeth (Terry·) R:1ss~ll, born Jan. 2, 1667, at Hatfield, Mass., was our Progenitor, being the third generation in America. At the age of 24, on April 9, 1691, he married Martha Graves, daughter of Nathaniel Graves of Wethersfield, Conn. On Nov. 9, 1692, he bought of Daniel Graves, his wife's cousin, 49 acres of land including a home lot of 3 acres on the east side of Broad street and 6 other parcels of land, and thereafter he resided at Wethersfield. He filled many positions of trust, from 1703 to the end of his life, and was looked up to as a leader in the community. In middle life he bore the title of Sergeant Russ~ll. Martha, his wife, was bcrn July 15, 1667, died July 15, 17-10. Children of John and Martha (Graves) Russe~l 1. Abigal Russell, born Dec. 8, 1692. 2. Elizabeth Russell, born May 12, 1695. 3. John Russell, born Oct. 8, 1698. 4. Martha Russell, born March 2, 1701. 5. Jonathan Russell, born Jan. 7, 1706. 6. Stephen Russell, born Oct. 30, 1710. Sergeant Russell married (2) Nov. 20, 1741, Susanna Nichols of Middeltown, Conn., where he most likely died. She married (2) Nov. 15, 1751, Captain Messenger. Abigal Russell, oldest child of John and Martha (Graves) Ru~sell, ,vas born at W cthersfield, Conn., Dec. 8, 1692. She married Capt. Williams, who died April 16, 1747. She was always called Abigal Williams. Elizabeth Russell, second child of John and Martha (Graves) Russell, was born May 12, 1695, married Feb. 24, 1715, Ephream Williams, a prominent business man of Wethersfield, Conn. He was born Jan. 10, 1691, died July 23, 1761. RUSSELLS IN CONNECTICUT 23

She died Oct. 11, 1766. Their children were Elias, Eliza­ beth, Jacob, David, Lucy and Prudence. John Russell, third child of John and Martha (Graves) Russell, was born at Wethersfield, Conn., Oct. 8, 1698, and married Dec. 1, 1725, to Elizabeth Crane, who was born Szpt 23, 1704, and was daughter of Israel and Lydia (Wright) Crane of Wethersfield, Conn. Children of John and Elizabeth (Crane) Russell 1. David Russell, born Aug. 29, 1726. 2. Elizabeth Russell, born May 17, 1729. 3. John Russell, born Sept. 8, 1731. 4. Hezekiah Russell, born Feb. 13, 1739. 5. William Russell, born June 29, 1741. 6. Timothy Russell, born Dec. 31, 1744. E!izabeth ( Crane) Russell died Nov. 10, 1745. After her death he married for his second wife Abigal -----. Their children were: 7. Rosewell Russell, born Feb. 7, 1749. 8. Abigal Russell, born March 17, 1751, who married, Aug. 3, 1777, William Sutton. 9. Asher Russell, born Oct. 27, 1753. Married Elizabeth Goff, March 8, 1775, who died July 18, 1787. Abigal, his wife, died Sept. ·3, 1756. John then married Elizabeth Pettibone of Simsburg, Conn., Sept. 18, 1760. He died at Wethersfield, Aug. 16, 1773. Jonathan Russell, fifth child of John and Martha (Graves) R ·-ssell, born Jan. 7, 1706, and married Mehatabel W oolcut, born Aug. 13, 1715, daughter of Capt. Samuel and Abigal W oolcut of Wethersfield, Conn., and settled in Wethersfield. Children of Jonathan and Mahetabel Russell 1. Elijah Russell, born May 13, 1731. 2. Samuel Russell, born May 17, 1733. 3. Martha Russell, born Feb. 27, 1735 4. Daniel Russell, born July 17, 1737. 5. Soloman Russel-I, born Sept. 26, 1752. 6. Sarah Russell, born l\lay 18, 1758. 24 RUSSELLS IN CONNECTICUT

Stephen Russell, the farmer, our Progenitor, yo·1ng~st child of John and Martha (Graves) Russell, was born at Wethersfield, Conn., Oct. 30, 1710, and married(l) May 17, 1733, Ruth Morton, born May 27, 1707, daughter of Thomas and Comfort (Beckley) Morton of Rockey Hill Parish, Conn. In a little account book belonging to Thomas Morton under the date of May 14, 1754, is an account for what my daughter Ruth had to be accounted to he:· for part of her portion. and it specified a case of drawers, ro·~nd table, square table, trunk, pot iron, brass kettle, frying pan, warming pan, skillet, pewter, calico curtains, blankets, coverlets, two feather beds, a great-wheel and a cow and calf. After seven children being born to them his wife, Ruth Morton Russell, died at Rockey Hill, Nov. 14, 1747. Children of Stephen and Ruth (Morton) Russell 1. Mary Russell, born March 23, 1735. Never married. 2. Philip Russell, born March 15, 1737. Deceased young. 3. Thomas Russell, born April 17, 1739. Decc2.sed young. 4. Thomas Russell, born Aug. 24, 17 40. 5. Ruthe Russell, born June 2, 17 43. 6. Stephen Russell, born July 7, 1744. 7. Martha Russell, born Sept. 11, 1747. Stephen married (2) Sept. 17, 1749, Abigal Wright, born March, 1720, daughter of Deacon Benjamin and Hannah (Holmes) Wright, who long survived him, dying Oct. 14, 1805. Children of Stephen and Abigal (Wright) Russell 8. Abigal Russell, born Jan. 22, 1751. 9. Jonathan Russell, born July 17, 1752. 10. John Russell, born Jan. 3, 1754, our Progenitor. 11. Martha Russell, born Sept. 25, 1755. The inventory of his estate was taken the tenth day of February, 1762, which was valued at £600 or $3,000, mostly RUSSELLS IN CONNECTICUT 25 in real estate. After the charges had been paid a distribution of the property was made March 22, 1762, by Gideon Goodrich and Elias Williams, as follows: £ Shilling d To Thomas ...... 106 12 7 To Mary ...... 53 6 2 To Ruthe . . -...... 53 6 3 To Stephen ...... 53 6 3 To Abigal ...... 53 6 3 To Jonathan ...... 53 6 3 To John ...... 53 6 3 To Martha ...... 53 6 4 Stephen was a full fledged farmer and lived an uneventful life at Rockey Hill, Conn., where he died in 1761, aged 51 years. Mary Russell, oldest child of Stephen and Ruthe Morton Russell, born at Rockey Hill, remained single and was evid­ ently dead before the distribution of the estate. Philip Russell, second child of Stephen and Ruthe (Morton) R~1ssell, born at Rockey Hill, Conn., died previous to the dis­ tribution of the estate. Thomas Russell, fourth child of Stephen and Ruthe ( Mor­ ton) Russell, born at Rockey Hill, Conn., Aug. 24, 1740, mar­ ried, Jan. 20, 1766, Elizabeth Goodrich, and settled at Rockey Hill on a farm, and was a half uncle to my father, Dr. George W. Russell and was well known by him. He died at home in May, 1823. She died there in 1832, leaving sev­ eral children, viz: Mehitable, who married Jacob Williams, who died Oct. 30, 1813. R;.1the Russell, fifth child of Stephen and Ruthe (Morton) Russell, was born at Rockey Hill, June 2, 1743, married, Nov. 19, 1767, Roger Bull of Rockey Hill, Conn., who died May 23, 1783. Then she married (2) in 1788, Jacob Riley, who died April 14, 1807. She died May 23, 1806. Stephen Russell, sixth child of Stephen and Ruthe (Morton) Russell, was born at Rockey Hill, Conn., July 7, 1744, mar- 26 RUSSELLS IN CONNECTICUT ried, Dec. 20, 1772, Margaret Andrews, born Nov. 15, 1752. He died at Litchfield, 1812. Children of Stephen and Margaret (Andrews) Russell 1. Elizabeth Russell, born March 13, 1773, died Sept. 30, 1777. 2. Mary Ann Russell, born Oct. 13, 1774, died Sept. 18, 1777. 3. Ursula Russell, born Sept. 9, 1776, died Sept. 23, 1777. 4. Mary Ann Russell, born July 16, 1778. 5. Ursula Russell, born Aug. 5, 1780. 6. Lucy R1.1ssell, born May 7, 1782. 7. Margaret Russell, born Aug. 12, 1784. 8. Elijah Russell, born Aug. 18, 1787. 9. David Russell, born Oct. 22, 1790. Jonathan Russell died at Litchfield, Aug. 21, 18~6. Hannah, his wife, died Nov. 1, 1836. Matthew Russell, oldest child of Jonathan and Hannah was born at Litchfield, Conn., and married Polly Fuller of B:irl­ ington, Conn., and settled on a farm. He at one time lived in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, moving there abo 1t 1835, and lived in the Russell neighborhood at Windham until 1853, when he removed to Illinois, and thence to Chickasaw county, Iowa, where he died in 1859. My father lived near him while in Windham and was acquainted with his family. His children were: Lucious, Orson, Eliza, Martha, Polly and several others. Dr. George W. Russell was well acquainted with Thomas and Stephen, sons of Stephen and Abigal. Also Jonathan and his son Stephen. There was a little anecdote Dr. George W. Russell used to tell on Matthew Russell, his cousin. One day as Matthew was hauling the manure out of his barn yard and as the yard was quite wet and sloppy, he pulled off his shoes and socks, rolled up his pants and waded in. Everything went well for a time, until Matthew discovered a big fat toad wiggling in the slush at his feet. He didn't stop for any ceremonies but up with his fork, took deliberate RUSSELLS IN CONNECTICUT 27 aim and came down heavy, exclaiming at the same time, "doodle spud," and ran one of the tines clear through his big toe. This was when they both lived in Windham, Pa., per­ haps about 1838. Stephen Ru~sell, second son of Jonathan and Hannah Rus­ s~l1, was born Sept. 15, 1778, married, April 17, 1303, Sarah Wadhams and settled in Litchfield, Conn., where he officiated as Magistrate and Representative in the General Assembly of Connecticut for many years. Sarah, his wife, was born May 22, 1778, and died June 25, 1818. He then married ( 2) Dec. 25, 1820, Anna, widow of David Bull, who died in 1859. He died Dec. 13, 1859, in Mount Vernon, Ohio, at the home of his son, Dr. John W adham Russell.

Children of Stephen and Sarah Wadham Russell 1. John Wadham Russell, born Jan. 28, 1804, at Litchfield, Conn. 2. Isaac Wadham Russell, born March 4, 1810, at !.iitch­ :field. Dr. John Wadham Russell, born Jan. 28, 1804, moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he and his iather both died. Dr. Isaac died at Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Children of Stephen and Ruthe (l\.lortt>n) Russell 1. Mary Russell, born March 23, 1735, at Rockey Hill, Conn. 2. Philip Russell, born March 15, 1737, at Rockey Hill, Conn. 3. Thomas Russell, born April 17, 1739, died May 20, 1739. 4. Thomas Russell, born Aug. 24, 1740. 5. Ruthe Russell, born June 2, 17 43. 6. Stephen Russell, born July 7, 1744. 7. Martha Russell, born Sept. 11, 1747. 28 RUSSELLS IN CONNECTICUT

Children of Stephen and Abigal (Wright) Russell 1. Abigal Russell, born Jan. 22, 1751, married Wait Dick- inson March, 1772. 2. Jonathan Russell, born July 17, 1752. 3. John Russell, the soldier, born Jan. 3, 1754. 4. Martha Russell, born Sept. 25, 1755. Abigal Russell, oldest child of Stephen and Abigal (Wright) Russell, was born at Rockey Hill, Jan. 22, 1751, and married, March 19, 1772, Wait Dickinson, of the same place, born Nov. 10, 1751, son of Obachia Dickinson, who died April 1, 1835. She died May 24, 1827. Jonathan Russell, second child of Stephen and· Abigal (Wright) Russell, was born at Rockey Hill, Conn., July 17, 1752, a full brother to my grandfather, John Russell, the soldier and uncle to my father, George W. Russell. He served in the Revolutionary war and at one time was confined in the terrible prison ship in New York bay and suffered nearly unto death. After the war was over he mar­ marled Hannah ---- and raised a large family and settled in Litchfield, Conn. Children of Jonathan and Hannah Russell 1. Matthew Russell, born in Litchfield, Conn. 2. Stephen Russell. 6. Rebecca Russell. 3. Rosanna Russell. 7. Elizabeth Russell. 4. Catharine Russell. 8. Martha Russell. 5. Reuben Russell. 9. Lois Russell.

R"ECORD OF THE WOODRUFF, DARLING, GRANT ANn RUSSELL FAMILY Nathanial Woodruff married Sarah Killburn. Their children: 1. Sally Woodruff married ---- Plum. 2. Ezekiel Woodruff 3. Hannah Woodruff married John Pierce. 4. Sybil Woodruff married Charles Grannis. RUSSELLS IN CONNECTICUT 29

5. Capt. Samuel Woodruff married (1) Sarah Johnson; (2) Huldah Taylor; (3) Mary Hubbard. o. Lucina Woodruff married (1) James Buell; (2) Jo- siah Grant. 7. Ann Woodruff married Abel Darling, 1775. 8. Polly married, Sept. 1, John Russell, born 1754. 9. Rhoda Woodruff. 10. Thankful Woodruff married Nathanial Brown. We don't know the origin of this family but expect it would be English. Able Darling, who married Anna Woodruff, was father to Tharon Darling, who married Sally Russell, and as John Russell married Mary Woodruff, sister to Anna Woodruff, and Sall :y Russell was John Russell's daughter would bring Tharon Darling and Sally Russell cousins. Josiah Grant, who married Lucina Woodruff and father to Clarissa Grant that married Edmond Russell, held the same relation to each other and were own cousins. Captain Samuel Woodruff married Sarah Johnson, and settled in the Eastern part of Bradford county, Pa., in 1799. Their children were, Clarissa, Nathanial, and Benjamin. Clarissa Woodruff Barstow, oldest child of Samuel and Sarah (Johnson) Woodruff, married Dr. Seth Barstow, and settled in Susquehanna county, Pa., and where Capt. Sam­ uel Woodruff died. Nathanial Brown married Thankful Woodruff and their children were: 1. Solymon and Augustus Brown, born, I think, In Con­ necticut between 1780 and 1795,. and were lawyers In New York City. They formed a society called the Swedenborgans at Larays­ ville, Pa., in 1845 or 1846, and all that would put in their property, coud join the phalanx and live as one family. They had a large store and other buildings, and for a season appeared very prosperous, but after a few years the Breth­ ren had the experience, and the leaders had the money. The Phalanx collapsed, leaving the members poorer and wiser than at the beginning. JOHN RUSSELL THE SCLDIER CHAPTER Ill

1. John Russell, the Emigrant, born in Ipswic, England, 1597, came to America in the ship Defense. 2. Philip, born in Ipswic, 1629, died at Hatfield, Mass., 1693. 3. Sergeant John Russell, born at Hatfield, Mass., Jan. 2, 1667, died Jan. 16, 1776 at Wethersfield, Conn. 4. Stephen Russell, born Oct. 30, 1710 at Wethersfield, Conn., died at Rockey Hill Parish, Conn., 1761. As there are twelve John Russells in this Record, we wil1 designate this one as John Russell the Soldier. He is the youngest son of Stephen and Abigal (Wright) Russ~ll, a full brother to Abigal, Jonathan and Martha, and half brother to Mary, Philip, Thomas 1st, Thomas 2nd, Ruthe, Stephen and Martha 1st. He was born at Wethersfield, Conn., Jan. 3, 1754. He learned the tanner, courier and shoemakers' trade. When the Revolutionary war broke out, he was among the. first to off er his services in the struggle for inde­ pendence. He enlisted May 6, 1775, as a drummer in the ninth com­ pany under Captain John Clark of the second regim~nt, Conn., volunteers, commanded by Colonel Joseph Spencer. He participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, and was dis­ charged Sept. 6, 1775. He married Sept. 1, 1776, Mary Wood­ ruff, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Kilbourn) (Wood­ ruff) and settled in Litchfield, Conn. Don't think he remained at home more than a year or so, he then re-enlisted and fought at the battles of Long Island and White Plains, being wounded in the last engagement. He was also in the decisive battle of York Town, Va., where Surgoine surrended his whole force to the American army. After the war was over, he came home, carried on the shoe RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM 31 making and tanning business in Litchfield, Conn., where they had ten children born to them. In the year of 1801, he emigrated to what was then the far western wilderness in Orwell, then Northumberland, now Bradford county, Penn. The country was so new and the roads so bad, the family was about five weeks in making the jo·,rney of 230 miles, the last fifteen miles of which my grandmother went on ·horse-back, by marked trees, carrying my father, Dr. George W. Russell, then an infant, on her lap. Here he commenc2d clearing and improving a piece of land near Orwell Hill, on what has since been known as the Deimmich farm. In 1802 he left his little improvement in Orwell, Pa., and bought a farm or possession on the tract of country called Cox's Patent on the Susquehanna river in the town of Nichols, New York, b:it failing in repeated at­ tempts and purchases, to obtain a good title to his land, he finaUy in 1815 sold out his possession rights, and with his family returned to New England. The q:iestion now arises, how long did he live at Nichols, New York. Some -of the family think three or four years; Samuel D. Russell of Windham, the oldest living grandson, thinks 13 years, and says J oh.n Russell never owned any land in Windham, while Dr. George W. Russell, was 15 years old and moved back to Connecticut with his parents. Records in his memoirs of the family that he lived from 1802, until December, 1815, at Nichols, and again that Mrs. Mary Woodruff Anthony at Harrington, Conn., moved to her father's house at Nichols in 1812, and there was mar­ ried to James Bush in 1814. While the family lived at Nichols, New York, and in December, 1815, they moved to and settled at Burlington, Hartford county, Connecticut, where his wife Mary died of consumption on the first day of J anu­ ary, 1816. He then broke up housekeeping, and in a few weeks went to Hartford where he remained between one and two years ' 32 RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM and then went to ·Windham, Pa., and lived with his son Harry until his death. He died with gout in the breast, Aug­ ust 31, 1820. Interment at Windham. There was an appropriate monument placed at his grave by Dr. Gurden W. Russell of Hartford, Conn., about 1908.

Children of John and Mary (Woodruff) Russell 1. Edmund, born at Litchfield, Conn., 1778, died at Wind­ ham, Feb. 21, 1840, aged G2 years. 2. Barzillai, born at Litchfield, Conn., Aug. 20, 1782, died Hartford, Conn., May 18, 1818, aged 36 years. 3. Sarah, born at Litchfield, Conn., Feb. 15, 1783, died at Orwell, Feb. 16, 1870, aged 84 years. 4. Samuel Woodruff, born at Litchfield, Conn., Aug. 20, 1784, died at Windham, Aug. 21, 1832, aged 48 years. 5. Mary Woodruff, born at Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 4, 1787, died at Windham, Jan. 1, 1868, aged 81 years. 6. Henry, born at Litchfield, Conn., May 27, 1788, died at Windham, Sept. 21, 1871, aged 83 years. 7. John, born at Litchfield, Conn., June 9, 1790, died at Janesville, Wis., Jan. 25, 1856, aged 66 years. 8. William, born at Litchfield, Conn., March 4, 1794, died at Windham, March 15, 1858, aged 64 years. 9. Julius, born at Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 16, 1796, died at Windham, Feb. 9, 1868, aged 72 years. 10. George Washington, born at Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 21, 1800, died at Gratiot, Wis., Nov. 2, 1870, aged 70 years. 11. Elizabeth, born at Nichols, N. Y., March 31, 1803, died at Winslow, Dec. 25, 1884, aged 81 years. The average of their lives is 68 years. About 140 years after the war, the Bradford County Ar­ gus remarked that, "There was a Revolutionary soldier bur­ ied in the Windham cemetery. Can anyone tell who it was?" True, it was no less a personage than John Russell, the soldier of Litchfield, Conn. RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM 33

*Edmund Russell, oldest child of John and Mary (Wood­ ruff) Russell, was born at Litchfield, Conn., in 1778. He married Clarrissa Grant, daughter of Capt. Josiah Grant in 1802, and settled in Orwell. He was a practical surveyor and surveyed a large part of Bradford county, and purchased considerable land. He o-vned and run a gristmill in Windham, ~a., also a farm. He built the old hotel called the Stone Jug. He held the office of Justice of the Peace and had some military position dur­ ing the war of 1812. He died Feb. 21, 1840, at Windham, Pa. Clarrissa, his wife, died at Owego, N. Y., in 1860 and was interred at Windham, by the side of her husband. Children ofEdmond and Clarrissa (Grant) Russell 1. Charles Russell, born at Orwell, Jan. 19, 1803, died at Lock Haven, Dec. 25, 1874. 2. Mary Russell, born at Orwell, died in Owego, N. Y., in 1850. 3. Clarrissa Russell, born at Orwell about 1806, died at Waverly, N. Y., in 1875. 4. Eliza Russell, born at Orwel in 18110, died at Waverly in 1876. 5. John Grant Russell, born at Orwell in 1813, died in De­ cember, 1874. 6. Edmond Russell, born at Windham, 1821, killed by In­ dians May 24, 1853. Charles Russell, oldest child of Edmond and Clarrissa (Grant) Russell, was born at Orwell, Pa., Jan. 19, 1803, and married (1st) Adaline Sutton of Warren, Pa., Sept., 1825, and settled in Windham, Pa., on a farm. Children of Charles and Adaline (Sutton) Russell 1. Anson Henry, born at Windham, Jan. 1, 1827. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born at Windham in 1829. 3. Addison, born at Windham, 1831, died at Nichols, Jan. 20, 1901.

Asterisk ( *) denotes sixth generation in America. 34 RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM

4. Adaline, born about 1833, died at Nichols, Oct. 2, 1905. He married (2nd) for his second wife, Hannah Arnts of Owego, N. Y., born Sept. 11, 1811. Children of Charles and Hannah (Arnt) Russell. 5. Franklin, born April 14, 1836, died Sept. 21, 1852. 6. Harriet. 7. Justin. 8. Laura. Adaline, his first wife, died in 1834. Hannah Arnt, his second wife, died 1n 1848. Charles died at Lock Haven, Pa., Dec. 25, 18·7 4, and was in­ terred at Windham, Pa. Anson Henry Russell, oldest child of Charles and Adaline (Sutton) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Jan. 1, 182'7 and married Ann Elizabeth Lockard, Dec. 2'7, 1856 and set­ tled in Ohio, 60 miles south of Cleveland, in 1890. He lived in Lima, Ohio, and was an oil producer and dealer and dealt in oil claims. Ann Elizabeth, his wife, was born in Ohio, Dec. 7, 1836. Children of Anson H. and Ann Elizabeth (Lockard) Russell 1. Charles Edmond Russell, born Oct. 31, 1857. 2. William Lockard Russell, born 1862. 3. James Townsend Russell, born 1866. 4. Flora Isabel Russell, born in Ohio, 1868. 5. Harry Anson Russell, born in Ohio, April 30, 1839. 6. Sarah Adaline Russell, born Dec. 29, 18-74. Charles Edmond Russell,. oldest child of Anson H. and Ann Elizabeth (Lockard) Russell, was born in Ohio, Oct. 31, 1857. They lived in Illinois in 1890. He married De\!. 1, 1881, Fan­ nie Avery, who was born in Painesville, Ohio. They also lived in La Port, Ind. Children of Charles E. and Fanny (Avery) Russell 1. Carl Lockard Russell, born 1884. 2. Charles Edmond Russell. 3. Robert A. RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM 35

Carl Lockard Russell is the oldest child of Charles E. and Fanny (Avery) Russell, born in Ohio in 1884. He married Emily Taylor, born about 1888. They have three sons of the 11th generation, the last is Carl Lockard Russell, born Oct. 31, 1915. William Lockard Russell, second child of Anscn H. and Ann Elizabeth (Lockard) Russell, was born in 1862 and mar­ ried Ella Deisterineg and was in La Salle, Ill., in 1890. He has two sons, Charles and Willia1n Deisterineg Russell. Rev. James Townsend Russell, thfrd child of Anson H. and Ann Elizabeth (Lockard) Russell was born in 1866. He is an elocutionist and gave an exhibition in King::;!cy Chapel, Wis., in 1890, with great success. Later, he became a mini­ ster in Brooklyn, N. Y. He married Nov. 14, 1894, Anna Emburg Sheldon, daugh­ ter of Henry King and Anna (Kissam) Sheldon. She is said to be very weal thy. He is an Archdeacon in the Protestant Episcopal church. He resides at 220 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. Children of James Townsend and Anna E. (Sheldon) Russell 1. Henry King Sheldon Russell, bo:-n Feb. 6, 1898, died July 28, 1900. 2. James Townsend Russell, born Aug. 20, 1902 Flora Isabel Bush, fourth child of Anson H. and Anna E. (Lockard) Russell, was born in Ohio in 1868 and married Amos Bush and settled at Syracuse, _N. Y. Harry Anson Russell, fifth child of Anson H. and Anna E. (Lockard) Russell, was born in Ohio, April 30, 1869 and mar­ ried Harriet Likens in 1890 and r~sides in Meadeville, Pa. Children of Harry A. and Harriet (Likens) Russell 1. James Likens Russell, born at Meadeville, Pa. 2. Anson Henry Russell, born at Meadeville, Pa. 3. David Russell, born at Meadeville, Pa. Sarah Adeline Russell Worden, sixth child of Anson H. and 36 RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM

Anna E. (Lockard) Russell, was born Dec. 29, 1874, in Ohio. She married George Glenn Worden. Lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Children of George G. and Sarah A. (Russell) Worden 1. James Russell Worden. 2. Anna Elizabeth Worden. Mary Elizabeth Russell Townsend, second child of Chari "S and Adeline (Sutton) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., in 1829 and married James Townsend about 1854 and settled in Cleveland. She died at Nichols, N. Y., June 20, 1902. Children of James and Mary E. (Russell) Townsend 1. Helen D. Kay, lives in Cleveland. 2. James Russell Townsend. Addison Russell, third child of Charles and Adaline ( Sut­ ton) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., 1831. He married Ella Taylor. Died Jan. 20, 1901 at Nichols, N. Y. Adaline Russell Schuyler, fourth child of Charles and Ada­ line ( Sutton) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., 1833 and married L. B. Schuyler and settled in Williamsport, Pa. She died at Nichols, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1906. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. James Town­ send Russell (her nephew) of Brooklyn, N. Y. Interred at Lock Haven. Franklin, oldest child of Charles and Hannah R ·1ssell, was born at Windham, Pa., in 1836. Died Sept. 21, 1852. Harriet Russell Wait, second child of Charles and Hannah (Arnt) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., about 1838. She married M. Wait and they moved to Kansas and thence to Atlanta, N. Y. in 1906. They have one girl, who is married.. Justine Russell Crawford, third child of Charles and Han­ nah (Arnt) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., about 1840 and married Thomas Crawford of Lock Haven, Pa. Laura Russell, fourth child of Charles and Hannah (Arn~.;) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., March 10,1845. She RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM 37

was a school teacher and lived with Jpstine, Mrs. Crawford. She died in Nichols, N. Y., Jan. 1906 and when Adaline S~huyler diP.d. in Oct. 2, 1906, Laura's remains were removed to Lock Haven, Pa. Mary, s~cond child of Edmond and Clarrissa (Grant) Rus­ sel, born at Orwell, Pa , and remained · single. She carried on a mi11inery and dress making establishment at Owego, N. Y. and died at that place. Clarrissa Russell, third child of Edmond and Clarrissa (Grant) Russell, was b0rn at Orwell, 1806. She remained single and was a b~siness woman. After her father's death she assumed charge of his grist mill and carried on the business for years. Later o!'l .. she and her sister Eliza, cond'.lcted a millinery store in Owego, nntil their mother's death. In 1866, she, in company with Eliza, made quite an ex­ tensive trip thro·1gh the middle west, visiting her brother in Ohio, brother John at Lanark, Ill., cousin James Russell of Janesville, Wis. and her uncle, Dr. G. W. R~1ssell of Gratiot, Wis. After returning home the two sisters settled in W av­ erly, where Clarrissa died in December, 1875 and was inte\·­ red at Windham. Age, 69 years. Eliza, fourth child of Edmond and Clarrissa (Grant) R·Js­ sell, was born at Orwell, 1810. She remained single and was a fast friend and companion of Clarrissa. They always lived and traveled together. Both were staunch spirit-:.1a­ lists. She died with a cancer, at Waverly in 1876, aged 66 years. Interment was made in the Windham cemetery. John Grant Russell, fifth child of Edmond and Clarrissa (Grant) Russell, born at Orwell. Pa.. a1>out 1813. He mar­ ried and settled in Pike, Potter county, Pa.,-a farmer, a merchant and trades in. general. In 1866 he was dealing in grain at Lanark, Ill. He died in Dec. 1874, and was interred at Windham, Pa. 38 RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM

Cl'\i.ldren of John Russel~[A,,"'• ...,...;::;;:,a-c~ Edmond Russell, youngest son of Edmond an (Grant) Russell, was born at Windham, 1821. He received a part of his education at Oneida Seminary at Cazenovia, N. Y. In 1841 he was appointed to cadetship at the military academy at West Point, graduating in the class of 1846, and became a second lieutenant of the 4th Infantry, Feb. 16, 1817 and served in the Mexican war. He was engaged in the capture of San Antonio, Aug. 20, 1847, and in the battle of Curubusco, where he was wounded. In the battle of 1\10- live Del Ray, Sept. 8, 1847, where he was braveted 1st Lieat­ enant for gallantry and meritorious cond :ict. He was with the heavy battery against Chapultepec. After the wars he was sent to the Pacific coast. He became 1st Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, Jan. 31, 1850 and was killed in a skirmish with the Indians near Red Bluff, Calif., March 24, 1853. He was a brave and good soldier. We well remember the tragedy in regard to the mass1cre and the apparation that appeared to his mother in seeing the Indians killing her son in cold blood at the very time that the tragedy was taking place a distance of over 3,000 miles away. At that time it took six months for the official report to get to Washington, and strange to say, when it came, it was exactly as it appeared to her at the time of the slaying. This was when the writer was nine years old and I know it was virtually correct. *Barzillai Russell, second child of John and Mary (Wood­ ruff) Russell, was born at Litchfield, Conn., Aug. 20, 1782 and married Esther Spencer of Hartford, 1806. She was born 1782 and they settled in that city, first a mechanic, but soon went into the printing and book p11blishing business in partnership with his brother John. About 1812, he invent­ ed a patent fire place to supply a room with an abundance of fresh hot air, from which he realized several thousand dollars. This was before stoves were brought into general use. He RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM 39 died at Hartford, May 18, 1818, aged 36 years. His wife, Esther, died Oct. 15, 1843, aged 63 years. Children of Barzillai and Esther (Spencer) Russell 1. Mary Ann, born in 1807, died 1882. 2. John Barzillai, Jan. 22, 1812. Mary Ann Russell, oldest child of Barzillai and Esther (Spencer) Russell, was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1807. Remained single, always lived in Hartford and died there in the fall of 1882, aged 75 years. John Brazillai Russell, second child of Barzillai and Esther (Spencer) Russell, was born at Hartford, Conn., Jan~ 22, 1812 and married Feb. 17, 1837, Susan Forbes of East Hart­ ford. He settled in Hartford, a stock and money exchange broker. Mr. R:.issell was a wealthy and influent1al citizen of that place. He died there, Jan. 20, 1896, aged 84 years. His wife, Esther, born Feb. 20, 1815, died July 6, 1883, aged 68 years. Children of John Barzillai and Susan (Forbes) Russell John Barzillai, born May 1, 1843, died Jan. 20, 1896, aged 53 years. 2. Susan E., born Nov. 23, 1849, died 1890. 3. William Charles, July 10, 1853. John Barzillai Russell, Jr. oldest child of John Barzillai and Susan (Forbes) Russell, was born at Hartford, Conn., May 1, 1843. Married Sept. 27, 1866, Lucy E. Gillett, who was born June 2, 1843. She was a daughter of Albert J. and Sarah (Brown)Gillett, who died Oct. 17, 1883. He died Jan. 20, 1896. Children of John Barzillai and Lucy (Gillett) Russell 1. Clare Albert, born Dec. 19, 1869, died Dec. 30, 1874. 2. James Laurie, born Nov. 23, 1871. 3. Florence Mabel, born Dec. 27, 1875. 40 RUSSELLS AT WINDHAM

James Laurie Russell, second child of John Barzillai and Lucy (Gillett) Russell, born at Hartford, Conn., Nov. 23, 1871. He married June 17, 1896, Ollie Watrous. They have one child, John Albert Russell, born March 4, 1899. Florence Mabel Russell Leesburg, third child of John Bar­ zillai and Lucy (Gillett) Russell, was born at Hartford, Dec. 27, 1875, married June 2, 1898, Henry Harrison Lees­ burg. Two children were born to them. 1. Lucy Gillett Leesburg, born April 10, 1900. 2. John Alfred Leesburg, born Jan. 2, 1907. Susan E. Russell Wells, second child of John B. and S:i~an (Forbes) Russell, was born at Hartford, Conn., Nov. 28, 1849 and married Cassius Wells, J :.:ne 10, 18-i 4. He died. in 1884, March 21, aged 38 years. She di.ed in 1890 without issue and gave her large fortune to her fathar. William Charles Russell, third child of John Barzillai and Susan (Forbes) Russell, born at Hartford, Conn, July 10, 1853. Married in Chester, Conn., Nov. 4, 1879, Ada Gi~­ bert Shortland, born Feb. 9, 1869, daughter of Stephen and Frances (Gilbert) Shortland.

Children of William C. and Ada (Shortland) Russe!I 1. Edith Shortland Russell Walley, was born Jan. 19, 1883 and married Arthur Gillette Walley, born Aug. 17, 1875, son of George H. and Ella (Frisbie) Walley. RUSSELLS IN ORWELL CHAPTER IV

*Sarah Russell Darling, third child of ·John and Mary (Woodruff) Russell, was born at Litchfield, Conn., Feb. 15, 1783 and moved to Orwell Northumberland, now Bradford Co·tnt~'.'": Pa., with her parents in 1801. She was married to Col. Tharon Darling at her home in Orwe1l. by Moses Coolbaugh, Esq., July 25, 18ul and settled on a farm at that pJace. · He was born at Litehfield, Conn., May 26, 1879. He held several military offices in the Penna Militia and for a long series of years was Justice of the Peace. Children of Sarah and Tharon Darling 1. Betsy, born at Orwell, Pa., Jan. 6, 1803, died Jan. 9, 1803. 2. Abel Patterson, born June 12; 1804, died Mar. 16, 1866. 3. Edwin W., born Jan. 18, 1805, died Jan. 25, 1805. 4. William N., born Dec. 22, 1806, died Dec. 31, 1841. 5. Dennis Russell, born Mar. 16, 1808, died Dec. 11, 1855. 6. Polly Ann, born Mar. 8, 1810, died June 14, 1867. 7. Adaline H., born May 28, 1811, died Aug. 31, 1879. 8. Major B., born Feb. 6, 1813, died Aug. 31, 1881. 9. Lyman M., born Dec. 11, 1815, died June 8, 1864. 10. George B., born Sept. 21, 1818, died Mar. 20, 1819. 11. Elizabeth, born Mar. 1, 1821, died Dec. 29, 1878. 12. Cullen R., born April 27, 1822, died Jan. 13, 1892. 13. Nancy E., born Aug. 25, 1826, died in 1893, aged 67 years. Their average age was about 45 years. 42 RUSSELLS IN ORWELL

This large family of thirteen children were all born, raised, lived, on farms, educated and died in Orwell and strange to say, none of them 'lived to the age of seventy years. The parents, being cousins, might have left its in­ fluence on the age of the children. The same thing proved true with Edmond R".lssell and his wife, Clarrissa; all their children died under seventy years. He died at his home in Orwell, Feb. 24, 1849 v.nd was in­ terred on the same piece of land he gave for a cemetery. it being marked by a mammoth chestn~1t tree, which has long since been succombed by the woodman's ax. Sarah (Russell) Darling died at Orwell, Feb. 15, 1870, aged 87 years. Abel Patterson Darling, oldest son of Tharon and Sally (Russell) Darling, was born at Orwell, Jan. 12, 1804. He married Laura Allis in 1826 and settled in Orwell, a farm-er. Children of Abel Patterson and Laura (Allis) Darling 1. Sarah Ordelia, born 1826. 2. Esther Theresa, born Mar. 8, 1828. 3. Rachael Caroline, born 1829. 4. Phoebe Lucretia, born 1830. 5. Laura Adaline, born 1832. 6. Ellen Eliza, born 1833. 7. Polly Ann, born 1834. 8. Theron Hollis, born 1838. 9. Abel Leroy, born 1840. He died in the same place where he was born, raised ed­ ucated and lived for sixty-two years and where he was buried. Sarah Ordelia Darling Frisbie, oldest child of Abel and Laura (Allis) Darling, was born in Orwell, April 25, 1827, where she married A. Gaylord Frisbie and settled on a farm at that place. RUSSELLS IN ORWELL

Children of Aaron Gaylord and Sarah (Darling) Frisbie 1. William Eaton Frisbie, born Feb. 18, 1853, married ( 1) Cynthia E. Bull, deceased; married ( 2) Flora Russell. Children, Russell Eaton Frisbie, born Jan. 24, 1904. 2. Ann Elizabeth Frisbie, born Jan. 2, 1855, married Hiram E. Bull. Children, Mary Ordelia Bull, born Feb. 26, 1886; Isabelle Frisbie Bull, born Sept. 24, 1888; Frances Elizabeth Bull, born Apri 17, 1894. Stewart Gaylord Frisbie, born Aug. 27, 1857, married Angenette Newman. Their children: 1. Helen Frisbie, born Aug. 29, 1895. 2. Gertrude Frisbie, born July 16, 1897. Frank Frisbie, born Jan. 28, 1859, died Sept. 7, 1866. Levi Abel Frisbie, born Aug. 15, 1861, married Janette Chaffee. Children, Myrtle Frisbie, born April 1902. La ·1ra Chloe Frisbie, born Mar. 14, 1863. Kate Frisbie, born Aug. 5, 1866, married Sterling Ross. Their children: 1. Helen W. Ross, born April 22, 1899. 2. Margaret Frisbie Ross, born Dec. 20, 1901. 3. Edward Sterling Ross, born Mar. 18, 1905. Laura Chloe Frisbie married Charles W eckheiser. Their children, Lillian Frisbie Weckheiser, born Sept. 6, 1890, died July 15, 1898; Martha Frances Weckheiser, born Jan. 18, 1899; Reuben Gaylord Weckheiser, born June 22, 1902 Esther Theresa Darling Powell, second child of Abel and Laura (Allis) Darling, was born in Orwell, Pa., Mar. 8, 1828 and married Ethen Powell and setted at Towanda, a car­ riage maker. Rachael Caroline Darling Spencer Pitcher, third child of Abel and Laura (Allis) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa., and married William Spencer, a shoemaker and settled in Orwell. Spencer died in 1863. The fruits of this marriage were three children, names unknown. She married James Pitcher of Orwell. 44 RUSSELLS IN ORWELL

Phoebe Lucretia Darling Allis Stephens, fourth child of Abel and Laura (Allis) Daring, was born at Orwell, Pa., 1830 and married Hiram Allis and sett1ed at Rome on a farm. He died there and she married ( 2) Mason Stephens. Laara Adeline Darling Ackley, fifth child of Abel and Laura (Allis) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa., 1832 and married Justus Ackley of Orwell. Ellen Eliza Darling Hines, sixth child of Abel and Laura (Allis) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa., 1833 and married John Henry Hines in 1855 and settled on a farm. Children of John H. and Ellen E. (Darling) Hines 1. Frank. 2. Ella. 3. Mary. Polly Ann Darling Carpenter, seventh child of Abel and Laura (Allis) Darling~ was born at Orwell, Pa., Mar. 14, 1834 and married Rev. Henry Carpenter abo:it 1872. Theron Hollis Darling, eighth child of Ab~l and L~:1ra (Allis) Darling, was born 1838, married Sophia Tuttl<3, 18::;3, settled in Orwell. Abel Leroy Darling, ninth child of Abel and Laura (Allis) Darling, was born. at Orwell, Pa., 1840, married Caroline Upson and settled in Orwell, Pa. Edwin W. Darling, second child of Theron and Sarah (Russell) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa., Jan. 18, 1803, died Jan. 25, 1805. William N. Darling, third child of Theron and Sarah (R.:s­ sell) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa., Dec. 22, 1803. He married and settled in Orwell, where he died D ~c. 31,. 1841, leaving a widow, who married Mr. Spalding of Rome. Dennis Russell Darling, fourth child of Theron and Sarah (Russell) Darling, was born at Orwell, Mar. 16, 1808 and married Ruba Goodwin of New Hartford, Conn., in 1839. He died in Orwell, Pa., Dec. 11, 1855, leaving a wido-.v and one son, William Henry and they both remained on the farm. William Henry was born in 1841. RUSSELLS IN ORWELL 45

Pc,lly Ann Darling, fifth child of Theron and S<:?.rah 'Rus­ sell) Darling, was born at Orwell, Mar. 8, 1810. She re­ mained single and lived with hEJr mother. She carried on the millinery business for many year~. She died at Orwell, June 14, 1867. Adaline H. Darling Beardslee, sixth child of Col. Ther­ on and Sarah (Russell) Darling, was born in Orwell, May 28, 1811 and raised on a farm. Married John Beardslee of Warren, Pa., born June 12, 1812 and settled on a farm at that place. He raised considerable stock and made dairy­ ing a specialty. Children of John and Adaline (Darling) Beardslee 1. Randolph Leet Beardslee, born Apr. 25, 1835. 2. Sarah Catherine Beardslee, born Aug. 9, 1839. Adaline (Darling) Beardslee died Aug. 31, 1879. John Beardslee married ( 2) a widow at Little Meadows, Pa., and settled at that place , where his death occurred. Randolph Leet Beardslee, oldest child of John and Ada­ line (Darling) Beardslee, was born at Warren, Pa., Apr. 25, 1835 and raised on the farm, and married Estella Graves and settled on his father's farm. He made a specialty of raising stock and running an extensive dairy. Children of Randolph Leet and Estella (Graves) Beardslee 1. Addie E. Beardslee, born July 19, 1863. 2. Mary E. Beardslee, born Jan. 1868. 3. Ralph W. Beardslee, born June 30, 1873. Addie E. Beardslee Brainard, oldest child of Randolph L. and Estella (Graves) Beardslee, was born at Warren, Pa., 1863. Her record will be given with her husband, Truman Brainard, later on. Mary E. Beardslee, second child of Randolph L. and Es­ tella (Graves) Beardslee, was born Jan. 1, 1868. Ralph Beardslee, third child of Randolph L. and Estella (Graves) Beardslee, was b~rn at Warren, Pa., and married Dec. 29, 1897, Nella Gould Russell, daughter of Samuel D. and Lucy (Gould) Russell and settled on the farm in War­ ren with his father. 46 RUSSELLS IN ORWELL

Ch.]dren of Ralph and Nella (Russell) Beardsl2e

1. Russell, born in 1903. 2. Donald, born at Warren, Pa., 1905. N e!la, his wife, died at the Packer hospital, June, 1914.

Sarah Catherine Beardslee Pitcher, second child of John and Adaline (Darling) Beardslee, was born at Warr~n, Aug. 9, 1839 and married Sidney Pitcher Oct. 20, 1859 and settled at Little Meadows. He was born Oct. 20, 1834, died Aug. 8, 1916.

Children of Sidney and Sarah Catharine Pitcher 1. John B. Pitcher, born Nov. 11, 1863, died Aug. 9, 1887. 2. Louise H. Pitcher, born Apr. 6, 1839. Major B. Darling, seventh child of Tharon and Sarah (R·1s­ sell) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa., Feb. 6, 1813 and mar­ ried Mary Jane Beckwith of Farmington, Conn., in 1840 ahd settled on a farm in Warren, Pa. Children of Major and Mary Jane (B~ckwith) Darling 1. Thesza Augusta Darling, born 1842. 2. Frances Ella Darling, born Mar. 2, 1847 at Wan·en. 3. Theron T. Darling, born about 1848 at Warron, Pa. 4. George Darling, born about 1850. 5. Frank Hubert Darling, born 1852. Thesza Augusta Darling Cook, oldest child of Major and Mary Jane (Beckwith) Darling, was born at Wr..rren, Pa, in 1842 or 1843 and married Christopher Avery Cook in J;ine 1865. They settled on a farm and have a large family of children-all farmers. Frances Ella Darling Cowles, second child of Major and Mary Jane (Beckwith) Darling, was born Mar. 2, 1847 and RUSSELLS IN ORWELL 47 married James P. Cowles of Warren, Nov. 16, 1869. Their chi!dren: 1. Darley Weaver Cowles, born Feb. 12, 1872. 2. John M. Cowles, born April 9, 1874. 3. Hubert D. Cowles, born May 25, 1876. 4. Genevieve Augusta Cowles, born Dec. 19, 1878. In November, 1861, James P. Cowles enlisted in the 10th New York Cavalry and was c:1ptured at Sulphur Springs, Va., Oct. 13, 18e3 and was confined in Libby and Anderson­ ville prisons, until May 1865, when he was paroled and dis­ charged June, 1865. Tharon T. Darling, third child of Major and Mary J. (Beckwith) Darling, was born at Warren, Pa., 1846 and married a Miss Woodford of Hartford, Conn. George Darling, fourth child of Major and Mary J. (Beck­ '_Vith) Darling, was born at Warren, 1848. Franklin Darling, fifth child of Major and Mary J. (Beck­ with) Darling, was born at Warren, Pa., 1852 and married Miss Clara ----of Hartford, Conn., and lives at Cleve­ la~d, Ohio. Lyman M. Darling, eighth child- of Theron and Sarah (R·1ss~ll) Darling, was born in Orwell, Pa., Dec. 11, 1815. He remained single and attended his mother's farm. He died June 8_. 1864. George B. Darling, ninth child of Theron and Sarah (Rus­ sell) Darling, was born at Orwell, Sept. 21, 1818 and died Mar. 20, 1819. Elizabeth Darling Morgan, tenth child of Theron and Sa­ rah (R~~ssell) Darling, was born at Orwell, Mar. 1, 1821 and married William Morgan and settled on a farm in Orwell, Pa. Children of William and Elizabeth (Darling) Morgan 1. Charles F. Morgan, born at Orwell, Oct. 27, 1856, mar- ried. 2. William D. Morgan, born July 13, 1858 in Orwell. 3. Harry E. Morgan, born June 10, 1860 in Orwe!l. 4. Edward W. Morgan, born Oct. 12, 1862 in Orwell. 48 RUSSELLS IN ORWELL

Charles F. Morgan, oldest child of William and Eliza­ beth (Darling) Morgan, was born Oct. 27, 1856. He married Lillie Wells and settled in Duluth, Wis. William D. Morgan, ~econd child of William and Elizabeth (Darling) Morgan, was born July 13, 1858 and married Lois Wells. Henry E. Morgan, third child of William and Elizabeth (Darling) Morgan, was born Jan. 10, 1860 at Orwell, Pa. and married Etta Van Orman. Edward W. Morgan, fourth child of William and Elizabeth (Darling) Morgan, was born at Orwell, Oct. 12, 1862 and married Nellie Conor. Cullen R. Darling, eleventh child of Theron and Sarah (Russell) Darling, was born in Orwell, April 27, 1822 and married Juliet Beebe and settled on a farm in Orwell, Pa. Children of Cullen R. and Juliet (Beebe) Darling 1. Amelia E. Darling, was born at Orwell. 2. Watson E. Darling, was born at Orwell, married Lucy Cummins. 3. Fredoline E. Dailing, was born at Orwell, married Olive Stoddard. 4. Lacey B. Darling, was born at Orwell, married Alice Seamour. 5. Herbert B. Darling, was born at Orwell, married Fan­ nie---- Cullen died Jan. 13, 1892. Amelia E. Darling, second child of Cullen and Juliet (Bee­ be) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa. Watson E. Darling, second child of Cullen and Juliet (Bee­ be) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa. He married Lucy Cummins. Fredoline E. Darling, third child of Cullen and Juliet (Bee­ be) Darling, was born at Orwell and married Olive Stoddard. RUSSELLS IN ORWELL 49

Herbert B. Darling, fifth child of Cullen and Juliet (Bee­ be) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa., and married Alice Seamour. Herbert B. Darling ,fifth child of Cullen and Juliet (Bee­ be) Darling, was born at Orwell, Pa., and married Fannie ---, died Jan. 13, 1892. Nancy E. Darling, the thirteenth and youngest child of Theron and Sarah (Russell) Darling, was born Aug. 25, 1826. She lived the life of single bliss. She was a profes­ sional and successful school teacher. The first time I ever met het, was in the Milan schoolhouse, about 1853 or 1854. She taught the Milan school for many terms. In 1855 she went into the millinery business and followed it several years. In 1882, she came west and made it her home with her cousin, Mrs. Harriet Leonard at Janesville, Wis. She en­ joyed occasional visits among her cousins in La Fayette county. In a few years she returned to Pennsylvania, where she died in 1893, aged 67 years. She was the last of that large family of thirteen children. *Samuel W@odruff Russell, fourth child of John and Polly (Woodruff) Russell, was born at Litchfield, Conn., Aug. 20, 1784 and married J erusha Russell of Wethersfield, Conn. and settled on a farm in that place. They had a pair of twins, who died young. His wife,. Jerusha, died in Connect­ icut, 1817. On Oct. 14, 1819, he married for his second (2) wife, Lucy Dickinson of Wethersfield, who was born Feb. 19, 1784. Bap­ tized Apr. 21, 1785. Died Dec. 24, 1860. In 1825 he moved to Windham, Pa., and settled on a farm on lower Russell street on Wapsena Cre(\k. Children of Samuel a~d Lucy (Dickinson) Russell 1. J erusha Russell, was born at Middleton, Conn., 1821. 2. Rockwell D. Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., July 21, 1828. 50 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

He died on the farm, A"'..lg. 21, 1832, leaving the two child­ ren. J erusha Russell, only daughter of Samuel and Lucy ( Dick­ inson) Russell, remained single. She was a dressmaker and kept house for her brother Rockwell. She died on the farm in 1879. Rockwe!l D. Russell, only son of Samuel and Lu~y (Dick­ inson) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa. He lived an un­ eventf.11 life on his fat~1er's farm inWindham, Pa. His sis­ ter J erusha was his h~useke~per. He died there Feb. 25, 1834 and was interred at Windham. *Mary Woodruff Russell Anthony Bush, fifth child of John and Mary (Woodruff) Russell was born at Lit:'.!hfi3ld, C~nn., Sept. 4, 1787 and married Samuel Anthony of that place, Jan. 29, 1807 He was born Sept. 7, 1784 and they settled in Harwing­ ton, Conn., where he died, Dec. 21, 1812. Children of Samuel and Mary (R:is:ell) Anthony 1. Sherman John Anthony, born Dec. 25, 1807. 2. Samuel Lucian Anthony, borr: Mar. 9, 1810. After her husband's death she moved to near Nichols 1n her father's home and was married there to James B 1sh in 1814. They settled in Windham, Pa., on a farm. He was also a lumber dealer. Children of James and Mary (Russell) Bush 1. Loretta Jerusha Bush Sherry, born 1817. 2. Edna Sidney Bush Butler, born Sept. 14, 1823. 3. Sidney Edna Bush, born Sept. 14, 1823. 4. Rachael Frances Bush McMurtrie, born Oct. 10, 1833. Mary was James Bush's second wife and James was Mary's second husband. He died Feb. 17, 1831, aged 82. Mary, his wife, died at home with a canc~r, Jan. 1, 1838, aged 81 years. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 51

Sherman John Anthony, oldest son of Sam11el and Mary (Russell) Anthony, was born at Harrington, Conn., Dec. 25, 1807. He moved to Windham, Pennsylvania, with his mother in 1813, where he married Cynthia Dunham of Nichols, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1830, and se'tled in Windham, Pa., a mechanic and practical b-acksmith. In October, 1854, he sold out his prop­ erty in w· ndham and moved to Milan, Pa.. where he pur­ ch:1sed a farm, known as the Shaw-Rogers f2.rm. His sons managed the farm while he worked at his trade in the shop.

Children of Sherman J. and Cynthia (Dunham) Anthony 1. John Dunham Anthony, born at Windh2.m, Pa., Sept. 4, 1831. 2. Drusilla Anthony Knap, born at Windham, Pa., Apr. 4, 1833. 3. Samuel L. Anthony, born at Windham, Apr. 1, 1835. 4. Mary M. Anthony Edminston, born Jan. 14, 1840. 5. Eva M. Anthony Brain9.rd, born at Windl:.an1, Feb. 10, 1845. 6. Charles L. Anthony, born at ·Windh!l..m, Pa., Oct. 21, 1852. He died at Milan, Feb. 20, 1873 and was inte:rred at Wind­ ham. Cynthia, his wife, born at Windham, May 25, 1809, died at Milan, Nov. 29, 1897. Both were buried at Windham, Pa., in the cemetery her grandfather gave to the town and named it Windham cemetery. Jo:1n D:inham Anthony, oldest child of Sherm~n J. and Cynthia (Dunham) Anthony, was born at Windl1am, Sept. 4, 1831. He moved to Milan with his parents in 1854, car­ r:ed on the poultry and shipping business for a few years. He married Susan Merril of Ulster, Pa., in 1856, a daughter of William and Sarah Merril, a school teacher. In 1856 he purchased a store at Milan of John B. Russell and carried on the mercantile business for five years and 52 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM then sold out and went into the live stock and shipping busi­ ness. He was an active member of the M. E. church, his wife Susan, belonged to the Presbyterian church. Children of J. Dunham and Susan (Merril) Anthony 1. Ida A. Anthony, born Jan. 20, 1857 at Milan, Pa. 2. Edna D. Anthony, born Mar. 3, 1859 at Milan, Pa. 3. Robert N. Anthony, born 1861. 4. Clyde H. Anthony, born 1863. 5. William Anthony, born 1867, deceased.

J. Dunham lost his life by ~ tree falling on him in Feb. 4, 1891. Susan, his wife, died at Danville, Pa., March, 1910. Ida A. Anthony Wright Lacey, oldest child of J. Dunham and Susan (Merril) Anthony, was born at Milan, Pa., Jan. 20, 1857. She was a dressmaker. She married Alfred Wright, Mar. 8, 1879 and settled on a farm west of Athens, Pa. In the spring of 1912, moved to Wilmington, Del. Children of Alfred and Ida A. (Anthony) Wright 1. Anson Ely, born May 1880, married Ann Ace in 1911. 2. Robert Clyde Wright, born 1883, married Nella Snell, Athens. 3. Alfred Curtis, born 1886, enlisted in Marine corps, in 1911. 4. Dunham Wright, born 1891, deceased. Ida A. Anthony Wright married (2) Dr. William A. La­ cey of Sayer, Jan. 7, 1917 and moved to Pittsburg, Pa. Anson Ely Wright, oldest child of Alfred and Ida (An­ thony) Wright, was born at Athens, Pa. May, 1880 and mar­ ried Anna Ace of Standington, Pa., and moved to Wilming­ ton Del., in 1912, thence to Pittsburg, Pa. in 1914. Robert Clyde Wright, second child of Alfred and Ida A. (Anthony) Wright, born at Athens, 1883 and married Nella RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 53

Snell of Athens, Pa., Oct. 21, 1911 and moved to Wilmington, Del., in 1912, thence to Pittsburg, Pa., in 1814. Alfred Curtis Wright, third child of Alfred and Ida A. (Anthony) Wright, was born at Athens, Pa., about 1886 and enlisted in the U. S. Marine corps, Aug. 4, 1911. He was soon promoted to the office of Corporal and has been promo­ ted three times. He was in the service in 1915. John Dunham Wright, fourth child of Alfred and Ida (Anthony) Wright, was born at Athens, Pa., about 1891 and died at that place. Edna D. Anthony Loomis, second child of J. Dunham and Susan (Merril) Anthony, was born at Milan, Pa., Mar. 3, 1859 and was a dressmaker. She married Bert Loomis, Jan. 29, 1878 and settled in Milan, a dealer in poultry and live stock. Moved to Wilkes Barre about 1910 and deals in milk, butter and eggs. Children of Albert and Edna D. (Anthony) Loomis 1. Bruce Loomis, born at l\iiilan, about 1880. 2. Bert Loomis, born at Wilkes Barre, 1913. Robert Anthony, third child of · J. Dunham and Susan (Merril) Anthony, was born at Milan, 1861 and married Jane Bennet of Waverly, N. Y. Children of Robert and Jane Anthony 1. Lena, born about 1898. 2. Mildred, born about 1900. Clyde H. Anthony, fourth child of J. Dunham and Susan (Merril) Anthony, was born at Milan, Sept. 4, 1864, mar­ ried Hannah Loomis of Athens, Pa., and went into the mer­ cantile business and postoffice at Milan, Pa. Children of Clyde and. Hannah (Loomis) Anthony 1. Frank Anthony, was born Dec. 14, 1884 at Milan, Pa. 2. Gertrude Anthony, was born Aug. 19, 1892 at Milan, Pa. Frank Anthony, oldest child of Clyde and Hannah (Loom- 54 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

is) Anthony, was born at Milan, Pa , De~. 14, 1881 and a1- ways lived and aJ~tended the Milan school. He married Ethel Riggs of Smithfield, Pa., and sett1.ed at Milan, Pa., a stock dealer.

Children of Frank and Ethel (R!ggs) Anthony 1. · Gertrude Anthony, born at l\filan, 1901, died 1915. 2. Clyde Anthony,- born at Mi!an, July 21, 1912. 3. Edna Anthony, born Feb. 17, 1914. Mary Gertrude Anthony, second child of Clyde and fI2n­ nah (Loomis) Anthony, was born at. Milan, Pa., Aug. 19, 1892 and married W~1-:er E. Arno~d on· rruesd1y, Jan. 16, 1917 of Wellsville, N. Y. Drusilla Anthony Knap, second child of Sherman Anth~ny and Cynthia (Dunham) Anthony, was born at Windham, P1., Apr. 4, 1883. Was a school teacher and married Azel Kn1p, a son of Dr. Kn2p of Athens, Pa., Mar. 1, 1876. They set­ tled on a farm north of Ath2ns. where they lived very co-r1- fortab1.e during their l~fe. He died on the farm Sept. 1889 and she died Mar. 5, 1900. Samuel L. Anthony, third child of Sherman J. and Cynthia (D:inham) Anthony, was born at Wind~1am, Pa., Apr. 1, 1835 and moved with his parents to Milan in 1854 and at­ tended to the farm. He married Maria Hassh of Milan, Nov. 27, 1868. She was born in 1833. He belonged to the Mason­ ic fraternity and both were Methodists. She di~d Jan. 19, 1908. . He bought and worked the homestead a:nrl so1d it to Hon. Robert Edminston.He got nis limb broken from a kick of a cow, which crippled him for life. Mary M. Anthony Edminston, fourth chEd of Sherman J. and Cynthia (Dunham) Anthony, was born at Wind~1am, Pa., Jan. 14, 1840. Was a school teacher and married Robert Edminston, Dec. 20, 1865. He was a son of Joseph and Sa­ rah Edminston of Milan, Pa. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 55

When a yo·-ng man he was a miller in the Sheshequin mills but quit that bus1ness to serve his country as a soldier. He now owns the Russell-Done and the Anthony farms in Milan, Pa. He serv-ed his state four years, two years in the Assembly and two years as State Senator of Pennsyl­ vania and rightly received the title of "Honest Bob" among his constituents. Children of Hon. Robert and Mary (Anthony) E.drninston 1. Harry Edminston, born Jan. 9, 1867, deceased. 2. Rob~rt Bruce Edminston, born Sept_ 4, 1872. They were members of the M. E. church at Milan, Pa. He was a member of the Masonic lodge. She died Dec. 14, 1898, aged nearly 59. Rob~rt Bri_·ce Edminston, second child of Robert and Mary (Anthony( Edmins"'"on, was born at Mi1an, Pa., Sept. 4, 1872 and married Harriet Van W olffradt of Milan, Pa. Their children: 1. Marie Edminston, born at Milan, July 23, 1898. 2. Robert Henry Edminston, born Sept. 11, 1912. Eva M. Anthony Brainard, fifth ·child of Sherman J. and Cynthia (Dunham) Anthony, was born at Windham, Pa., Feb. 10, 1845. She moved to Milan with her parents in 1854. She was a school teacher and married Lewis Brainard, Oct. 21, 1877, a son of Andrew C. and Jane Brainard of Litchfield, Pa., he having six girls from his former wife, viz Elizabeth, s·dney L., Sarah A., l\iary A., Deborah F. and Ella F. Af­ ter his second marriage they settled at Nichols, N. Y., a car­ riage maker by occupation and he remained there the rest of his life. Ch"ldren of Lewis and Eva M. (Anthony) Brainard 1. Ida Mae, born at Litchfield, May 8, 1879. 2. Edna Drusilla Brainard, born Apr. 3, 1881. 3. Cynthia Maria Brainard, born Oct. 5, _1882. 4. Iva Amanda Brainard, born Feb. 25, 1886. 5. Emily Olive Brainard, born July 2, 1887. 56 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

Lewis Brainard died at Owego, N. Y., May 15, 1908, aged 72. Ida Mae Brainard Nichols, okiest child of Lewis and Eva M. (Anthony) Brainard, was born at Litchfield, Pa., May 8, 1879 and married Harrison B. Nichols of Owego, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1903, and settled at that place, where he died several years later. Children of Harrison B. and Ida Mae (Brainard) Nichols 1. Susan Emma Nichols, born Jan. 6, 1905, died Oct. 5, 1916. 2. Lewis B. Nichols, born Aug. 12, 1906. She married (2) Fred D. Burges, Mar. 8, 1911. Edna Drusilla Brainard Foresythe, the second child of Lewis and Eva M. (Anthony) Brainard, was born at Nichols, N. Y., Apr. 3, 1881 and married William Muriel Forsythe of O­ wego, N. Y., Apr. 3, 1900. Children of William and Edna D. (Brainard) Foresythe 1. Gilbert Anthony Foresythe, born Jan. 14, 1910. 2. Robert Muriel Foresythe, twin brother to Gilbert, born Jan. 14, 1910. Cynthia Maria Brainard Morse, third child of Lewis and Eva M. (Anthony) Brainard, born Oct. 5, 1882 and married Harry R. Morse of Owego, N. Y ., and settled at the same place. Children of Harry R. and Cynthia M. (Brainard) Morse 1. Clifford Newel Morse, born at Owego, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1904. 2. Grace Morse, was born Mar. 22, 1906. 3. Edna Louisa Morse, born Oct. 26, 1907. 4. Harry Morse, born Jan. 10, 1909. 5. Henry Stewart Morse, born Apr. 3, ~914. 6. Donald Russell Morse, born May 20, 1917. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 57

Iva A. Brainard, fourth child of Lewis and Eva M. (An­ thony) Brainard, was born at Nichols, Feb. 25, 1886 and at­ tended the public school and married Frank Brainard of Milan, Pa., Mar. 5, 1905. They settled on a farm west of Milan village. Children of Frank and Iva A. Brainard 1. John Brainard, was born Dec. 1, 1906. 2. Joseph Brainard, twin to John, born Dec. 1, 1906. 3. Charles D. Brainard, born Dec. 15, 1911, deceased. Emily Olive Brainard, fifth child of Lewis and Eva (An- thony) Brainard, was born at Nichols, N. Y., July 2, 1887. ~ingle in 1917. Charles I . Anthony, sixth child of Sherman and Cynthia (Dunham) Anthony, was born at Windham, Pa., Oct. 21, 1852 and lived at home until he was 26 years old. He was captain of the Milan base ball team, while single. In 1878 he married Mary Monroe of Milan, a daughter of Thomas and Cornelia Monroe. He is a mechanic and works in the Athens bridge factory and they have a large family. Their children are: 1. Marrion, was born at Milan, May 29, 1879. 2. Della Anthony, was born at Milan, Sept. 30, 1880, de- ceased. 3. Morris, was born at Milan, January, 1883. 4. Imogene, was born at Athens, June 11, 1887. 5. Hellen, was born at Athens, Feb. 7, 1891. 6. Eleanor Anthony was born at Athens, Pa., Jan. 17, 1895. Marrion Anthony Griffin Jones, oldest daughter of Charles L. and Mary (Monroe) Anthony, was born at Milan, Pa., May 29, 1879 and moved with her parents to Athens. She married George Griffin in 1903. He died in 1906. She mar­ ried (2) Paul Jones in 1915. Their only child, Loretta Jones, was born Mar. 3, 1916. 58 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

Della Anthony, second child of Charles L. and Mary ( Mon­ roe) Anthony, was born at Milan, Pa., Sept. 30, 1880. De­ ceased. Morris Anthony, third child of Charles L. and Mary ( Mon­ roe) Anthony, ,vas born at Milan, Pa., January 1883, and married. Children of Morris and ----Anthony 1. James Anthony. 2. Mary Anthony. 3. Eleanor Anthony. Imogene Anthony, fourth child of Charles L. and Mary (Monroe) Anthony, was born at Athens, Pa., June 11, 1887. Married. Helen Anthony Tracy, fifth child of Charles L. and Mary (Monroe) Anthony, was born Feb. 7, 1891. Was raised by Hon. R. and Mary Edminston and was educated by him at Mansfield and Scrant schools. She married John Tracy in 1911, a son of Senator Tracy of Harrisburg, Pa. They have one son, Robert Tracy, by name. Eleanor Anthony, seventh child of Charles L. and Mary (Monroe) Anthony, was born at Athens, Jan. 17, 1895. Samuel Lucian Anthony, second child of Samuel and Mary (Russell) Anthony, was born at Harwington, Co:in., J\'lar. 9, 1810, married in 1832 Rachael Horton and settled on a farm near Owego, N. Y. Children of Samuel Lucian and Rachael Anthony 1. George Horton Anthony, born at Owego, July 1835. 2. Prudence Anthony, born 1836 at Owego. 3. Rachael Anthony Jones, born 1838. His wife, Rachael Horton Anthony, died in 1865. George Horton Anthony, oldest son of Samuel Lucian An­ thony, was born at Owego, N. Y., July, 1835, on a farm. He married Mary Jones in 1860. She was born Dec. 2, 1838. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 59

Children of George H. and Mary (Jones) Anthony 1. Floyd Harry Anthony, born Sept. 30, 1861. Floyd Harry Anthony, only child of George H. and Mary (Jones) Anthony, was born Sept. 30, 1861 and married Stella Fenderson in 1900. Their son, George Jones Anthony, was born Dec. 19, 1911. Prudence Anthony Jones, second child of Samuel Lucian and Rachael (Horton) Anthony, was born at Owego, N. Y., in 1836. She married Woodbridge Jones in 1855. They set­ tled in Sheshequin, a lumber dealer and speculator. In 1863 he sold his farm and went back to Owego. Their children: 1. Kate Jones Russell, born in 1862. 2. Frank Jones, born in 1865. Kate Jones Russell, oldest child of Woodbridge and Pru­ dence Jones, was born at Sheshequin, Pa., in 1862 and mar­ ried William Henry Russell, son of William H. Russell of Windham, Pa., 1882. Her record is given in another place.· Frank Jones, second child of Woodbridge and Prudence (Anthony) Jones, was born at Owego, N. Y ., in 1865. Rachael Anthony Jones, third child of San1uel Lucian and Rachael (Horton) Jones, was born at Owego, N. Y., in 1838. She married Horace Jones of Owego and settled on a farm. Loretta Jerusha Bush Sherry, oldest child of James and Mary Bush, was born at Windham, Pa., about 1817 and mar­ ried Hiram Sherry of Mauch Chunk and settled at that place for a few years and in 1855 came to Windham and run the Stone Jug (Hotel) in connection with a livery and sale stable. In 1874 he was residing at Waverly, N. Y. About September, Loretta J erusha fell and broke her hip and died in Oct. 1883.­ Sh9 was interred at Windhan1. George W. and Mary Jane Russell attended the funeral. Children of Hiram and Loretta (Bush) Sherry Two of the children died young.

1. Robert Sherry, was born at lVlauch Chunk1 1850, mar­ ried 1874. 60 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

2. Edmund Sherry, born at Mauch Chunk, Pa.. , married. A liveryman. 3. Catharine Sherry, born at Windham, Pa., 1855, mar­ ried 1879. Her husband soon died and she married (2) Ed Dolliver and lived at Willawana. No issue. Ed and his wife Fanny have one son. His name is Frank Sherry. He is married and lives in Philadelphia. Died at Reading, Pa., May 24, 1917. Edna Sidney Bush Butler and twin sister to Sidney Edna, was born at Windham, Pa., Sept. 14, 1823 and married Thom­ as Butler and settled at Mauch Chunk, Pa. He died before her, with the consumption. She then came to her old home at Windham and died of the same disease, Oct. 22, 1849. Sidney Edna, a twin sister to Edna Sidney, was single and when Edna Sidney went to Mauch Chunk to live Sidney Edna went and lived with her and as her husband died with con­ sumption and then Edna Sidney followed soon after, Sidney contracted the disease and died Dtiar. 15, 1851. It was gener­ ally conceeded by the f~mily th~t Edna S:dney contracted the disease from Mr. Butler, her husband and Sidney Edna caught it from her instead of its being handed down from her grandmother. • Rachael Bush McMurtrie, fourth child of James and Mary (Russell) Bush, was born at Windham, Pa., Oct. 10, 1833 and married Josiah McMurtrie and settled in Mauch Chunk, Pa. She died Jan. 27, 1860, leaving six children. Names unknown. chapter 5 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

CHAPTER V

*Henry Russell, sixth child of John and Mary (Woodruff) Russell, was born at Litchfield, Conn., in May 27, 1788 and moved to Orwell with his parents in 1801, thence to Owego, where he married Lydia Smit:1 in 1812. In December, 1815, he removed to Connecticut, where he resided about two years and then removed to Windham, Pa., where he remained the rest of his life. He was appointed Justice of the Peace by the Governor of Pennsylvania, which office he held sixteen years. He was noted far and wide as a man of athletic and social sports, very active, jovial, en- tertaining and enterprising. He made the boast that the day he was 80 years old he would go into the timber and chop four cords of wood, but before the long wished for day came he was stricken with paralysis. In 1810 in company with a neighbor boy, when all the near­ by grist mills had shut down on account of. the extreme drought they started with ten bushels of wheat in a canoe down the river to Wilkes Barre grist mill, got it ground and returned home, making the trip of over two hundred miles in about twelve days. Such were some of the hardships of the early settlers of Pennsylvania.

Children of Henry and Lydia (Smith) Russell 1. Mary Woodruff RusseH Cowle, born at Nichols, 1813. Died Feb. 14, 1870. 2. Amanda Smith Russell Reel, born 1814, died Nov. 29, 1859. 62 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

3. William Henry, born in 1817, died Apr. 10, 1885, aged 68 years. 4. John Barzillai, drowned in the W ap~ena Creek in 1829. 5. Maria Louisa Russell Misner, born 1820, died 1882. 6. John Barzillai Russell, born May 13, 1831, died in 1897. 7. Dennis Russell, born in 1835, died in 1897. He died at Windham, Pa., Sept. 21, 1871 with paralysis, aged 83.

Lydia, his wife, died Nov. 27, 1871, aged 76 years.

Mary Woodruff Russell Cowle, oldest child of Henry and Lydia (Smith) Russell, was born at Nichols, N. Y., in 1813 and married William Cowle in 1835, a son of John Cowle and settled at Orwell on a farm. Children of William and Mary (Woodruff) Cowie

1. John Cowle, born at Orwell, 1836. 2. Amanda Cowle, born at Orwell, 1838. 3. Chester Cowle, born at Orwell, 1840. 4. Mary Elizabeth Cowle Beers, born 1842. William Cowle died at Orwell about 1845. Mary Woodruff Russell Cowle died Feb. 14, 1870.

John Cowle, oldest child of William and Mary W. (Rus­ sell) Cowle, was born at Orwell, Pa., 1836 and settled on a farm in Orwell, where he led the Orwell brass band for many years. He married Harriet Dunham. In 1872 he sold his farm and in ·company with his brother Chester moved to Marseilles, Ill., and bought into a large dry goods and grocery store and carried on a large business. They had two children. Amanda Cowie Newel, second child of William and Mary (Russell) Cowle, was born at Orwell, Pa., and married Jo- RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 63 siah G. Newel of the same place and where they lived for many years and where she died in 1883. They had four children. Chester Cowle, third child of William and Polly (Russell) Cowle, was born at Orwell, Pa., 1840 and was a cripple in one ankle in 1855. He married Miss Barnes of Orwell. He emigrated to Marseilles, Ill., in 1873 and engaged in the dry goods and grocery business with his brother John and doing a thriving business. Mary Elizabeth Cow le Beers, fourth child of William and Mary (Russell) Cowle, was born at Orwell, Pa., about 1843, married Charles Beers of Orwell and settled there on a farm. She died Aug. 22, 1887. Amanda Smith (Russell) Reel, second child of Henry and Lydia (Russell) Reel, was born in Connecticut in 1814, and moved to Windham, Pa., with her parents in 1817. She married Benjamin Reel in 1832 and settled on a farm in Windham.

Children of Benjamin and Lydia (Russell) Reel 1. Lydia Reel, born 1834. 2. William Henry Reel, born at Windham, 1838. 3. Sarah Catherine Reel, born at Windham, 1846. Amanda, his wife, died in 1859. Benjamin married for his second wife, Miss Moody of Rome, Pa. He died at Windham in 1862. He was an influential church member. Lydia Reel Hewitt, oldest child of Benjamin and Amanda (Russell) Reel, was born at Windham, Pa., in 1834 and mar­ ried Henry Hewitt. They have two children, William and Elizabeth. Lydia Reel Hewitt died in 1910. William Henry Reel, second child of Benjamin and Aman­ da (Russell) Reel, was born at Windham, Pa., on a farm '64 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM and married Phoebe Madden, a daughter of John S. and Elizabeth Madden of Windham, Nov. 6, 1867 and settled on his father's farm for seven years.

Children of William H. and Phoebe (Madden) Reel 1. Benjamin Reel, born in Windham, Pa., Nov. 21, 1869. 2. Harry Russell Reel, born Aug. 8, 1871. He has spent much of his life in Illinois, mostly at Lin­ den, on his farm and part of the time in the mercantile bus­ iness. Benjamin Reel, oldest child of William and Phoebe (Mad­ den) Reel, was born at Windham, Nov. 21, 1869 and married Maud Lucia of Linden, 1893 and is a contractor at Sterling, IIL Children of Benjamin and Maud (Lucia) Reel 1. Fred Russell Reel, born 1894. 2. Ila Reel, born 1896. 3. Esther Reel, born 1909. Fred Russell Reel, Benjamin's son, single in 1917. Ila Reel Marshman, Benjamin's daughter, married Gale Marshman in 1915 and they have one child, Eileen Maud Marshman, born April 25, 1916 and is one of the few at present belonging to the 11th generation of Russells in Am­ erica. Esther Reel, third child of Benjamin and Maud (Lucia) Reel, born 1909 and lives at home. Harry Russell Reel, second child of William H. and Phoe­ be (Madden) Reel, was born at Windha1n, Pa., Aug. 8, 1871. He married Ethel Mae Fries of Moline, Ill., June 11, 1913 and is located at that place. Sarah Catherine Reel Doan, third child of Benjamin and Amanda (Russell) Reel, was born at Windham, Pa., 1846 and married William Doan and settled in Windham on a farm. They have two children, Clyde and Lena. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 65

William Henry, third child of Henry and Lydia (Smith) Russell, was born in Burlington, Conn., 1817, moved to Windham, Pa., with his parents, and married Permelia Dun­ ham of Nichols, 1842 and settled in Windham on Russell street and went into a general store and was doing a thriv­ ing business until in 1855 when his store was robbed by a gang of burglars with several wagons. What they could not carry away, they burned up, together with the building, hoping thus to cover up their tracks. He soon rebuilt and kept on in the mercantile business until his death. He held many offices of trust and his opin­ ion was considered good on all business and legal points. His home was always the home of all his friends. He own­ ed several farms in and around Windham. He died at that place, Apr. 10, 1885, aged 68 years. Permelia, his wife, died about 1896, leaving one son. William Henry, only child of William H. and Permelia (Dunham) Russell, was born about 1885 at Windham, Pa. He graduated at Binghamton Commercial college in 1873. He also graduated at the Michigan. University at Ann Ar­ bor, Mich., as Bachelor of Law, Mar. 29, 1876. He married Kate Jones, daughter of Woodbridge and Prudence Jones in 1882. Kate was born in 1862 at Owego and they set­ tled at Windham, Pa., a lumberman and speculator.- In 1893 he went into the revenue office in N e,v York City and ren1ained at that station until his death which took place Aug. 31, 1899 with heart failure. John Barzillai Russell, fourth child of Henry and Lydia (Smith) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa. and drowned in the W apsena creek in 1829. Maria Louisa Russell Misner, fifth child of Henry and Lydia (Smith) Russell, was -born at Windham, Pa., in 1820 and married P. A. Misner and settled on a far1n at Sand­ wich, Ill., about 1853. They had two girls. 1. Sarah Misner, born at Sandwich, Ill., about 1854. She teaches music. 66 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

2. Bell Misner, born at Sandwich, Ill., about 1866. John Barzilla Russell, sixth child of Henry and Lydia (Smith) Russell, was born May 13, 1831, on Russell street, Windham, Pa., and grew up on his father's farm, and mar­ ried Elizabeth Wait, daughter of Christian and Rachael Wait, December 1st, 1857, at Weight, N. Y., and they set­ tled on a farm on Russell street, Windham, Pa. About the year of 1868, he built a very fine residence, in which he spent the rest of his life. When a young man he met with a severe accident by a chain breaking on a stump pulling machine and he received a severe blow which nearly cost him his life. He died on July 29, 1897, from the effects of a fall from a bridge. Elizabeth, his wife, lived on the farm until her death, January 1, 1908. Children of John Barzillai and Elizabeth Russell Amanda G. Russell Cass, born at Windham, Sept. 26, 1858. Stella L. Russell Doan Boardman, born March 4, 1860. Amanda C. Russell Cass, oldest child of John Barzilla and Elizabeth( Wait) Russell, was born at Windham. She married Charles Lewis Cass at her home at Windham, Pa., September 25, 1878. He was the son of Samuel T. and Polly Cass of Orwell, Pa., and born at that place May 29, 1857. They bought and settled · on a farm in Rome township. Mr. Cass was a very prosperous farmer and lived on his farm until his death, January 30, 1902. Ch~Idren of C. Lewis and Amanda Cass 1. E. Stella Cass, born in Rome, Pa., Aug. 8, 1879. 2. Newton Russell Cass, born at Rome, Pa., May 16, 1881. 3. Iva L. Cass, born March 2, 1883. 4. S. Thurber, born December 25, 1890. 5. Mildred A. Cass, born April 15, 1898. Amanda C. (Russell) Cass, now lives at Nichols, N. Y. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 67

E. Stella Cass, oldest child of Charles Lewfa; and Amanda (Russell) Cass, born August 8, 1879, on a farm at Rome, Pa., and is a practical school teacher. She graduated from the Westchester State Normal in 1906, and took a course at the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught for several years in New Jersey. Newton Russell Cass, second child of Charles Lewis and Amanda (Russell) Cass, born at Rome, May 16, 1881, traveled considerable in Europe and America. Graduated :!:rom Prince­ -~o.n University in 1909, and from Harvard Law Schoel in 1912, married March 24, 1913, to Margaret B. Law, daughter of William Law of Cherry Chase, Maryland. They went to Indianapolis, Ind., where he began the prac­ tice of law. In the spring of 1915, they removed to Albany, N. Y .. , where he became a railroad lawyer for the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Co. Iva L. Cass, third child of Charles Lewis and An1anda (Rus­ sell) Cass, born March 2, 1883, in Rome, Pa., on a farm and married Dana E. Fice of Gent county, Pa., August 20, 1902. They settled in Gent on a farm, Y.rhere she died July 1, 1903. S. Thurbes Cass, fourth child of C. Lewis and Amanda (R'Jssell) Cass, born at Rome, Pa., Dec. 25, 1890, and moved to Nichols with his mother in 1902 and lived at home. He has gone into business at Nichols, N. Y. Mildred A. Cass, fifth child of C. Lewis and Amanda ( Rus­ sell) Cass, born at Rome, Pa., Apr. 1, 1898, moved to Nich­ ols with her mother in 1902 and attended the High school, where she graduated with honor. Stella S. Russell Doan Boardman, second child of John Bar­ zillai and Elizabeth (Wait) Russell, was born Mar. 4, 1860 at Windham on a farm and attended the Windham school and married Lewis Doan of Windbam, Pa., March 1880 and set­ tled in Le Raysville, Pa. They had one child, Eva, by name. Eva A. Doan, daughter of Lewis and Stella Doan, was born at Le Raysville, Pa., Sept. 2, 1881. 68 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

Stella S. (Russell) Doan married (2) for her second hus­ band, Frank E. Boardman, Aug. 9, 1890. He was a son of Alpheus and Julia W. Boardman of Rome, P., born April 5, 1868 and settled on a farm at that place, from thence on a farm in Windham and from thence about the year of 1906 moved to Owego and went in the mercantile business at that place. Eva A. Doan, only child of Lewis and Stella (Russell) Doan, was born at Le Raysville, Pa., Sept. 2, 1881, married Burton Cotton of Litchfield, Pa., Sept. 2, 1899 and settled in Lock­ wood, N. Y., where they did a very successful mercantile business. They removed from thence to Nichols, N. Y., where he is engaged in extensive lumber business. Two c-hiJ­ dren came to gladden their home. Iva L. Cotton, born at Lockwood, March 30, 1909. Lloyd D. Cotton, born May 6, 1914. Dennis Russell, seventh child of Henry and Lydi.t (Sn1ith) Russell was born at Windham on Russell street in 18;33, was in the railroad employ for a number of years. He married Elmira Wait of Owego, N. Y ., and settled on the same farm and in the same house he was born in. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity. He died in 1897. His wife then moved to Nichols, N. Y. *Hon. John Russell, seventh child of John and Mary Wood- ruff) Russell, was born at Litchfield, Conn., June 9, 1790, he moved with his parents in 1801, to Orwell, Pa., remained there one year, and thence to a farm on the river above Nich­ ols, three miles. In 1810 he went to Owego and learned the art of printing of John Leonard. He then returned to Connecticut, and in 1814, he married Martha Wads worth, daughter of Gurden Wadsworth of Hart­ ford, born Mar. 7, 1791. He settled in that city a printer in company with his brothers Barzillai and Willian1. Barzillai died in 1818. I have a book entitled the Memoirs of General Jackson, printed by Wand J. Russell in 1819. In 1820 Wil- RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 69 liam drew out of the office and moved to Windham, Pa. In 1824 John became associated with Benjamin H. Norton in publishing the Hartford Times the foremost Democratic pa­ per in the state and the first to hoist the name of General Jackson for President of the United States.

In 1828, Mr. Norton retired from the firm and Mr. Russell continued the papers as sole proprietor until Nov. 1837, when he, too, retired from the printing business. From 1839 to 1846 inclusively, he was surveyor of customs of Hartford. He was also Probate Judge for two years and at that time he had access to the Historical Records of Hart­ ford county and state of Connecticut. He sifted out many facts about the Russell family which assisted materially in perfecting this memoir. He lost his wife Martha while liv­ ing at Hartford, he moved to Windham in 1848, his daughter Martha Jane died while living at Windham, Pa. In 1850, he married Lydia Wadsworth, sister to his first wife and in the same year he moved to Wisconsin. Lydia, his wife, was born June 23, 1788. He now moved with his family out west and at Milwaukee his son James W. that was acting as book keeper for a wholesale firm at that place joined him and they settled on a beautiful farm four miles north of Janesville, Wis. In the spring of 1851, Dr. George W. and his son, John B. Russell, while looking for government land made him a visit at his farm and found the judge and his son James plowing corn, the Judge holding plow and James leading the horse.

Children of John and Martha (Wadsworth) Russell

1. Gurden Wadsworth Russell, born at Hartford, Conn., Apr. 10, 1815. 2. Harriet Russell Leonard, born at Hartford, Feb. 13, 1817. 3. James Wadsworth Russell, born at Hartford, Apr. 19, 1824. 70 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

4. Martha Jane Russell, born at Hartford, July 28, 1829. She died at Windham, Pa., 1849, aged 20 yean:;. Martha, his wife, died at Hartford, Conn., 1847. Hon. John Russell died on his prairie farm, Jan. 25, 1856. Lydia, his second wife, died at Janesville, Oct. 22, 1872. Dr. Gurden Wadsworth Russell, oldest child of John and Martha (Wadsworth) Russell, was born at Hartford, Conn., Apr. 10, 1815 and attended the district and Hopkins gram­ mar school and graduated at Trinity college, Hartford, 1834. Was the oldest living Alumni of the college at the time of his death. He also graduated from the medical institute of Yale Col­ lege in 1837. He began practice in Hartford in 1838. He married Elizabeth· Tuttle, daughter of Samuel Tuttle, Sept. 12, 1838, born May 11, 1816. Elizabeth, his wife, died July 16, 1871. They were members of the Episcopal church. He married again. He was to a great expense compiling for publication the Genealogy of the Russell Family, which was printed and can be obtained at four dollars a copy of Albert C. Bates, Librarian, Hartford, Conn. He died Feb. 3, 1909, aged 94 years, which is- the greatest age of any Russell of my ac­ quaintance. Children of Dr. Gorden W. and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Russell 1. Edward Russell, born at Hartford, Conn., June 13, 1839. 2. Elizabeth Hotchkiss Russell, born Dec. 15, 1855. 3. Gurden Tuttle Russell, born May 6, 1859. Edward Russell, oldest child of Dr. Gurden W. and Eliz­ abeth (Tuttle) Russell, born at Hartford, Conn., June 13, 1839 and died at that place Apr. 17, 1877. Elizabeth Hotchkiss Russell, second child of Dr. Gurden W. and Elizabeth Russell, born at Hartford, Conn., Jan. 5, 1853 and died at that place Dec. 15, 1855. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 71

Gurden Tuttle Russell, third child of Dr. Gurden W. and Elizabeth Russell, born at Hartford, Conn., Dec. 1856. Died at the same place, May 6, 1858. Harriet Russell Leonard, second child of Hon. John and Martha (Wadsworth) Russell, born at Hartford, Conn., Feb. 13, 1817. Moved to Windham, Pa., in 1848, thence to Janes­ ville, Wis., with her parents in 1850 and married Gurden Leonard, Apr. 4, 1855 and settled on a farm three miles east of Janesville, Wis. He was born in York state, Apr. 9, 1814. They moved to the city in 1869. They were members of the Episcopal church. He was sole owner of a mining claim in Colorado, where he spent some time and money in developing the same. While on the farm he was a very ambitious and progressive farmer, but when he retired from the farm he dropped all labor and took life more easy. While traveling through the south, he was taken ill ·and died in Deland, Fla., Nov. 17, 1881. She· died at Janesville, Wis. J umes VT adsworth Russell, third child of John and Martha (Wadsworth) Russell, was born at Hartford, Conn., Apr. 19, 1824 and was educated at the High school in that city. He remained at home until 1848, then he went west to Windham, Pa, for one year, thence to Milv;aukee and got a position as book-keeper, one year, in 1850 when his parents arrived at Milwaukee he joined them and pushed on and they settled four miles north of Janesville, Wis., on a farm and remain­ ed there until he retired from farm life and moved to Janes­ ville City. He was a member of the 0. 0. F. Fraternity and a master in the Janesville lodge for many years. He married Mrs. Louisa A. Cook, daughter of ~rtemas Marsh. She was born in Brookfield, N. Y., July 16, 1830. Married at Janesville, Wis., May 22, 1864. During the civil war he was tendered the Colonel commission but did not accept. He took quite an active part in perfecting the family record. They had a family of five children. 72 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

Children of J altles Wadsworth and Louisa (Marsh) Russell 1. Edna, born May 20, 1867. 2. Arthur G., born Nov. 22, 1868. 3. Edward W ., born Mar. 22, 1871. 4. Alice, born Apr. 18, 1873, died Aug. 25, 1894. 5. John James, born Aug. 23, 1875. James died Sept. 1899 at his home in Janesville, Wis. She died at Janesville, Apr. 9, 1892. Edna Russell Hanson Wilt, oldest child of James W. and Louisa (Marsh) Russell, born at Janesville on a farm, May 20, 1867 and married Benjamin O. Hanson, a carriage paint­ er and settled in Janesville. He was born in Jan. 25, 1865. Children of Benjamin 0. and Edna (Russell) Hanson 1. Ray Russell Hanson, born July 12, 1890. 2. Herbert Hanson, born Mar. 23, 1892. 3. Harry Hanson, born July 15, 1896. Benjamin 0. Hanson died at Janesville, Apr. 5, 1896. She married (2) Mar. 25, 1903, Eli Grant Wilt, a farmer of Lenox, Taylor County, Iowa. Children of Eli Grant and Edna (Russell) Wilt 1. Alice Wilt, born Jan. 21, 1905. Ray Russell Hanson, oldest child of Benjamin and Edna (Russell) Hanson, was born at Janesville, Wis., July 12, 1890 and lives with his mother in the city of Janesville Wis. Herbert Hanson, second child of Benjamin and Edna ( Rus­ sell) Hanson, was born at Janesville, Mar. 23, 1892. Harry Hanson, third child of Benjamin and Edna (Russell) Hanson, was· born at Janesville, Wis., July 15, 1896. Alice Wilt, only child of Eli Grant and Edna (Russell) Wilt, was born Jan. 21, 1905 and lives with her mother in Janesville, Wis. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 73

Arthur G. Russell, second child of James W. and Louisa (Marsh) Russell, was born at Janesville, Nov. 22, 1868. The winter of 1887 he attended the Kingsley school and boarded at J. B. Russell's. Later on, he learned the gunsmith and plumbing business. On Dec. 17, 1891, he ma1Tied Alice Ma­ ria Heck, born Dec. 24, 1872 and settled on the farm that his father and grandfather settled on in 1850 and where he was born. He has very much improved the buildings end con­ dition of the farm since he has control of the place and also enlarged it. He was out in Colorado to develop his mining claim which is supposed to be very rich in gold. Arthur G. and Alice Maria Russell have one son. Harrold Russell, only child, was born at J anesvlle, Wis., July 27, 1893 and remains at home, 1917, with his parents on the farm. The family attended the Russell reunion in Warren in 1913 and again in 1917 and Harrold read a paper giving the early history of the Russells, from the time they left lpswic, Eng­ land and landed in Boston, Oct. 3, 1635 to the time of John Russell, the soldier, born at Wethersfield, Conn., Jan. 3, 1754. Edward Wadsworth Russell, third child of James W. and Louisa (Marsh) Russell, was born at Janesville, on a farm, Mar. 22, 1871. Worked on the farm and in the Janes­ ville shoe factory in 1891. Married July 29, 1893, Edith Mae Arnold, born at Adams, Mass., Feb. 26, 1873, a daugh­ ter of Henry and Agnes Gray (Arnold.) He fired for awhile on the Chicago & N orihwestern railroad, Freeport division and soon became Engineer on that road. They now reside in Chicago, Ill., 950 Laurel avenue. Children of Edward W. and Edith Mae (Arnold) Russell 1. Edward Gordon, born Feb. 16, 1895. 2. Mildred Agnes, born Nov. 27, 1896, died June 18, 1899. 3. Allan Arnold, born July 4, 1899. The whole family attended the Russell reunion in Warren in the years 1912 and 1913. 74 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

Edward Gordon Russell, oldest child of Edward W. and Edith Mae (Arnold) Russell, was born at Janesville, Wis., Feb. 16, 1895 and moved to Chicago with his parents and now lives in that city. Allan Arnold Russell, third child of Edward W. and Edith Mae (Arnold) Russell, was born at Janesville, July 4, 1899 and now lives with his parents in Chicago, Ill. Alice Malissa Russell, fourth child of James W. and Louisa (Marsh) Russell, was born at Janesville, Wis., Apr. 18, 1873. She was a very nice accomplished young lady. She died Aug. 25, 1894, aged 21 years. John James Russell, fifth child of James W. and Louisa (Marsh) Russell, was born at Janesville, on the farm, Aug. 23, 1875 and was also on the railroad. He married Nov. 4, 1896, Nella Church, a daughier of James and Mary Church, born Mar. 17, 1875. To make it more convenient to his work he moved to Chicago, Ill. After being an engineer for several years, he found for his health's sake he had better resign. He then acceptee a position as purchasing agent for a large butchering estab­ lishment near the stock yard. His family also attended the Russell Reunion at Warren, Ill., in 1913.

Children of John James and Nella (Churchil) Russell

1. Hellen Russell, born July 21, 1899. 2. Gurdon Russell, born Mar. 9, 1903. He lives on Laurel avenue, No. 1913, Chicago, Ill. Hellen Russell, oldest child of John James and Nella (Churchil) Russell, was born at Janesville, July 21, 1899 and lives, 1917, in Chicago with her parents. Gu.rden Russell, second child of John James and Nella (Churchil) Russell, born Mar. 9, 1903 and lives with his parents in Chicago, Ill., and attended the Russell reunion in Warren in 1913. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 75

*William Russell, eighth child of John and Mary (Wood­ ruff) Russell, was born at Litchfield, Conn., Mar. 4, 1794 and came to Orwell in 1801, thence to Owego township in 1802, on a farm with his parents. He married Eliza C1eamer, Dec. 2, 1817 and went into the mercantile business. He also had a printing office with his brother John, for several years and in 1820 he disposed of his printing office and moved to Windham, Pa., and went to farming on Russell street. Eliza, his wife, was born at Middletown, Conn., Nov. 22, 1797. He was postmaster from 1826 to 1851. In 1830 he re­ ceived an appointment of marshall and took the census of Bradford county in that year. In 1833 and 1834 he was treasurer of Bradford county. He died in Mar. 15, 1858, with pneumonia, aged 64 years. She died Apr. 6, 1873.

Children of William and Eliza (Creamer) Russell

1. Mary Elizabeth Russell, born at Hartford, Conn., Nov. 16, 1818. 2. Catharine Creamer Russell, born at Windham, Pa., Mar. 23, 1821. 3. Justin Alsap Russell, born at Windham, Pa., Apr. 17, 1824. 4. Francis W. Russell, born at Windham, Pa., Apr. 2, 1827. 5. Sarah G. Russell, born at Windham, Mar. 4, 1829. 6. Frederic Gilman Russell, born at Windham, Pa., July 15, 1832. 7. Samuel Dickinson Russell, born at Windham, Pa., July 11, 1835. Mary Elizabeth Russell Frisbie, oldest child of William and Eliza (Creamer) Russell, was born at Hartford, Conn., Nov. 16, 1818 and removed to Windham, Pa., when a child with 76 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM her parents. She married Hanson Z. Frisbie of Orwell, Mar. 14, 1844, where they resided until 1854, whence they moved with their children to Bellevue, Mich., where she died in Oct. 1853 and was interred in Oak Hill cemetery, Battle Creek, Mich. Her age was 40 years. Children of Hanson Z. and Mary Elizabeth (Russell) Frisbie 1. Frank Frisbie, born in Orwell, Pa., about 1846, died Nov. 18, 1861. 2. Clarence, born at Orwell, 1849. 3. Sehvin FrisMe, born at Orwell, 1854. 4. Charles Frisbie, born at Bellevue, Mich., 1858. In course of a few years he moved to Kansas with his three living children. They lived at Grantville, in 1891. Clarence Frisbie, second child of Hanson and Mary Eliz­ abeth (Russell) Frisbie, was born at Orwell, Pa., in 1849 and moved to Be:Ievue, Mich., in 1854 with his parents, thence to Grantville, Kan. Selwin Frisbie, third chid of Hanson and Mary E. ( R:is­ se11) Frisbie, was born at Orwell in 1854 and moved to Belle­ vue, Mich., in 1854. After his mother's death in 1858 he went with the family to Grantville, Kan., where they lived in 1891. Char~es Frisbie, fourth child of Hanson Z. and Mary E. (R·.:ssell) Frisbie, born at Bellevue, Mich., 1858. His moth­ er died while he was an infant and he was taken to Kansas with the family in the sixties. Catharine C. Russell Patterson, second child of William and E~i::;a (Creamer) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Mar. 23, 1821. She married T. W. Patterson, Dec. 23, 1845. ChJtlren of T. "\V. and Catharine (Russ2ll) Patter3on 1. ClarEnce R. Patterson, deceased young. 2 Fann:e R:.~sse 1 Patterson, born 1855. Catharine C. died Mar. 9, 1855. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 77

Fannie Russell Patterson Bedford, second child of T. W. and Catharine (Russell) Patterson, was born 1855 and mar­ ried Mr. Bedford and settled in Scranton, Pa. Justin A. Russell, third child of William and Eliza (Creamer) Russell, born at Windham, Pa., Apr. 17, 1824. On Mar. 10, 1857, he married Annie Wright and settled on a farm near Nichols, N. Y., where they had one son, Freder­ ick, born about 1860. Justin A. Russell died on his farm Oct. 7, 1901, aged 77 years. Frederic Russell, only child of Justin A. and Annie (Wright) Russell, was born near Nichols on a farm about 1860 and married Lodornia Terbush of Windham, Pa., and settled on his father's farm and died there. Children of Frederic and Lodornia (Terbush) Russell 1. Irvin Russell, was born Feb. 22, 1882. 2. George Russell, born 1888. Frederic died at home about 1900. Irvin Russell, oldest child of Frederic and Lodorina (Ter­ bush) Russell, was born near Nichols, N. Y. on the farm. He was born on Feb. 22, 1882 and took the prize at the baby show in Owego in 1883. George Russell, second son of Frederic and Lodornia (Ter­ bush) Russell, was born at Nichols in 1888. Francis Russell Jakway Olmsted, fourth child of William and Eliza (Creamer) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Apr. 2, 1827. She was married to James Jakway, Mar. 12, 1858 and settled at Owego, N. Y.

Children of James and Frances (Russell) Jakway 1. William E., born at Owego, Nov. 29, 1858. 2. Le~s C. Jakway, born at Windham, Pa., Sept. 4, 1863. '78 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

3. Sherman Charles Jakway, born ·at Windham, Pa., 1864. 4. Samuel R. Jakway, born at Windham, Pa., July 8, 1868. 5. Rolland R. Jakway, born at Windham, Pa., 1873. James Jakway died about 1874. She married for her second (2) husband, Leonard Olm­ sted, Aug. 16, 1877 and settled in Windham, Pa. He was a miller and operated the same mill that Edmond Russell owned in 1840. He was a good and respectable citizen. He died at his home in Feb. 16, 1886, aged 67 years. She died at Perry, Okla., Oct. 23, 1906. William E. Jakway, oldest child of James and Frances (Russell) Jakway, was born at Hyde Patrk, Pa., Nov. 29, 1858. He married Nov. 26, 1881, Virginia E. Milliken. She was born Sept. 6, 1857 at Scranton, Pa. They have one child, Ruthe Millikan Jakway, born Aug. 24, 1887. Lives at Lin­ coln, Neb. Lewis C. Jakway, second child of James and Francis (Russell) Jakway, was born in Sterling, Ohio, Sept. 29, 1862 and married in 1891.

Children of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jakway

1. Paul Jakway. 2. Lee Jakway. 3. Walter Jakway. 4. Francis J akway. Sherman Charles Jakway, third child of James and Fran­ cis (Russell) Jakway, was born at Nichols, N. Y., 1866. Mar­ ried Alma Moore. They have one son Clarence Jakway of Wysox, Pa. Clarence Jakway married Bertha Buttler. They have one daughter, Dorothy Virginia. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 79

Seymour B. Jakway, fourth child of James and Francis (Russell) Jakway, was born at Windham, Pa., June 8, 1868. Rolland R. Jakway, fifth child of James and Francis (Rus­ sell) Jakway, was born at Windham, Pa., Dec. 27, 1872 and was raised by R. Bruce Baker in New York City. Sarah G. Russell Wheeler, fifth child of William and Eliza (Creamer) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Mar. 4, 1829 and married Dr. W. S. Wheeler, May 14, 1849 and settled in Waverly, N. Y. Children of Dr. W. S. and Sarah G. (Russetll) Wheeler 1. Eno Wheeler, born at Waverly, 1851. 2. Larra Wheeler, born at Waverly, 1853. 3. Ida Wheeler, born at Waverly, 1855.

Frederic Russell, sixth child of William and Eliza ( Cream­ er) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., July 15, 1832 on a farm. He married Hellen M. Coon and moved to Battle Creek, Mich., where he died. Samuel Dickinson Russell, sixth child of William and Eliz­ abeth (Creamer) Russell, was born on Russell street, Wind­ ham, Pa., July 11, 1835. Was raised, lived and died on the same farm that he was born on. He married Lucy Ann Gould of Windham, Pa., July 10, 1869. They were both members of the M. E. church, he be­ ing Sunday school superintendent for many years. In poli­ tics, he was a democrat, having voted for 14 presidential candidates and casting his ballot at 59 elections. They rais­ ed a family of five children, all coming to years of maturity.

Children of Samuel and Lucy A. (Gould) Russell

1. Lena Mae Russell Manning, born May 11, 1870. 2. Nella Gould Russell Beardslee, born Oct. 30, 1872, died June 11, 1914. -80 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

3. Sabra L. Russell, born Sept. 29, 1877. 4. Samu~l Dana Russell, born Sept. 29, 1882. 5. Tharon Ivers Russell, born Jan. 28, 1886. Lucy Gould R1:1ssell died at Windham, Mar. 10, 1916. Samuel Dickinson Russell died Nov. 1, 1916. Lena May Russell Manning, oldest child of Samuel D. and Lucy (Gould) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., on a farm, May 11, 1870. She was a successful school teacher. She married George Manning June 16, 1897 and settled at Auro­ ra, Pa. Now lives in Pennsylvania near Owego, N. Y.

Children of George and Lena M. (Russell) Manning 1. Dorothy Manning, born at Aurora, Pa. Nelly Gould (Russell) Beardslee, second child of Samuel D. and Lucy (Gould) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Oct. 30, 1872 and married Ralph Beardslee, only son of Randolph L. and Estella Beardslee, Dec. 19, 1897. They settled on his father's farm in Warren, Pa. Children of Ralph and Nelly (Russell) Beardslee

1. Russell Beardslee, born 1903 at W :irren, Pa. 2. Donald Beardslee, born 1905 at W 3rren, Pa. Nelly Gould (Russell) Beardslee died at the Packer hospit­ al, June, 1914. Sabra L. Russell, third child of Samuel D. and Lucy (Gould) Russell was born on a farm at W1ntlham, Pa., S:pt. 29, 1877 and lived at home caring for her aged par~nts. Since her parents' death sh~ lived at Ni~ho~s. Late1: at Binghamton, N. Y., with her brother, Th2.::-on. Samuel Dana Russell, fourth c~:.ild of Sa1nuel D. and Lucy (Gc1ld) Russe~l, was born at Windham, Pa., Sept. 29, 1882. He is superintendent of a large Borden creamery at Youngs, N. Y. Is married and has one girl, born about Nov. 18, 1912. Tharon Ivers Russell, fifth child of Samuel D. and Lucy RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 81

(Gould) Russell, was born in Jan. 28, 1886 on the same farm that his father was born on and grandfather owned in 1820. He was a traveling salesman for a large grocery store in 1913. Later he traveled for the Borden creamery of Youngs, N. Y. *Julius Russell, ninth child of John and Mary (Woodruff) Russell, was born at Litchfield, Oct. 16, 1796. He moved with his parents to Orwell in 18011 thence to above Nichols, N. Y. in 1802 and remained on the farm a few years. He learned the brick, stone laying and plastering trade at Hart­ ford and located at Windham, Pa., in 1821. He mar­ ried Eliza Seymour in 1823, daughter of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Conn., and settled on his farm in Windham. In 1842 he was elected Register of Wills and Deeds and Clerk of the Orphans' Court of Bradford county, which position he filled for three years. On the Fourth of July, 1855, he had a family reunion at his house, where there were thirty-eight of the brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, sat down to eat at one table. On July 4, 1861, he made another family reunion where there were 50 relatives present. In 1856, he, in company with Dr. George W. Russell, went to Iowa and located 2,500 acres of Government land at $1.25 an acre near Clear Lake. In 1860 in company with his wife Eliza, he made a visiting tour among the relatives in La Fayette co:inty, Wis., and another visit in 1865. Children of Julius and Eliza Russell 1. Chauncey Seymour, born April 1824 and died Nov. 2, 1906, aged 82. 2. Lewis Seymour, born Oct. 9, 1825, died Feb. 18, 1896. 3. Ralph W. Russell, born 1827, died April, 1874. 4. Mary Ann Russell, born Feb. 4, 1833, died Aug. 7, 1843. 5. Richard H. Russell, born Feb. 5, 1839, died of diphthe­ ria, August, 1863. Up to his death he was one of the most hono1ed and re­ spected citizens of Windham and Bradford counties. 82 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

He died on his farm and wes interred in the Windham cemetery, Feb. 9, 1868, aged 72. Eliza, his wife, died at the home of her son, Hon. Chaun­ cey Russell, Towanda, Pa., J a.a. 29, 1892, aged 85. Hon. Chauncey Seymour Russell, oldest child of Julius and Eliza (Seymour) Russell, was born in Windham, Pa., May 13, 1824. When he was eighteen years of age, his father was elected Register and Recorder of Bradford county and he brought his son, Chauncy S., with him to Towanda, where he entered the office with his father. When his father's term of office expired he was tendered the place of Deputy Prothonotary, which he held from 1845 to 1848, when he was appointed Commissioner's Clerk and continued in that office until 1851. At that time he formed a co-partnership with C. D. Hall in the hardware business and they had an extensive trade. In 1858 Mr. Russell accepted a position as agent of the Far­ mers' Insurance company of Athens and continued in that business for two years. In 1860, he with John A. Codding, formed a co-partner­ ship in the hardware business under the firm name of Cod­ ding & Russell and they did a very large business in this section and in Aug. 1867 their store was destroyed by fire. In 1873 he was elected on the democratic ticket as Asso­ ciate Judge, by 4,000 majority when the county went repub­ lican. He filled this position with honor to himself and con­ stituents. For eight years he was Burgess of Towanda. Since 1876, however, he has been in the insurance business and achieved a great success. Judge Russell married in Wysox township, Sept. 20, 1853, Miss Mary P., daughter of Robert and Aurelia Satterlee Spalding, who died in Novem­ ber, 1903, about a month after they returned home from an extended visit to Kansas and among friends in and around Warren, Ill RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 83

They were both members of the Universal church. He was a Master Mason, also an Odd Fellow. He died Nov. 2, 1906. He was laid to rest by the side of his wife Mary, in Oak Hill cemetery, where a fine monument was erected by hirr after her death. Lewis Seymour Russell, second child of Julius and Eliza (Seymour) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Oct. 9, 1825 and married Sarah C. Kuykendall, born Nov. 8, 1830 and lived and died in the house in which he was born. He made a trip through the west with his brother Ralph and wife in 1872 and again in 1885 he went out to Clear Lake, Ia., to see his land interest and was taken sick. His children hurried to his bedside and as soon as able they brought him back to Read Russell's home in Warren, Ill., until able to make the trip home. He was a good financier and business man, a member of the Masonic order. Children of Lewis Seymour and Sarah C. Russell 1. George Seymour Russell, born Feb. 1, 1855. 2. Ella D. Russell, born at Windham, July 8, 1868. He was a mediator and peacemaker in the community in which he lived. Sarah, his wife, died May 9, 1882. He died at Windham, Pa., Feb. 19, 1896. George Seymour Russell, oldest child of Lewis S. and Sa­ rah (Kuykendall) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Feb. 1, 1855 in the same house in which his father was born. While single he started in business in a shoe store in Towan­ da, and sold out his shoe store and purchased one-half inter­ est in Chauncey Russell's hardware store in 1876 and man­ aged that for three years. He. then sold out and went back to Windham on the farm with his father. He married Nellie Angel of Campton, Pa., June 21, 1882, da-.ighter of Rev. J. R. Angel. Her father was the officiating minister. He then remained on the farm for about twenty years and made a home for his father. About 1901 he rent- 84 RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM ed his farm and moved to Towanda and in a few· years he disposed of the farm in Windham and turned his attention to other business matters in the city. Children of George S. and Nellie (Angel) Russell 1. Herald Russell, born at Windham, Pa., April, 1883. 2. Lillian Sara Russell, born July 25, 1891. Himself, wife and Lillian, attended the Panama exposition in 1915 and on their way home visited relatives in MissoU!"i and Illinois. In 1893 George and Nellie were at the World's fair at Chi­ cago and before going home they visited his cousins at War­ ren, III~, and at Kingsley, Wis., and at that place ;,lmong the yo"Jngsters he had the time of his life. One of the cousins had recently married and was just back from the honey­ moon trip. George and Nellie were enjoying a quiet evening at one of the cousins' home, when they heard a commotion at the front door which was caused by a company of cousins on their way to serenade the new married couple. They were loaded with dinner horns, cow bells, tin pans, sleigh bells and any thing that would make noise. They called to get George and Nellie, who were only too glad to join the fray and away the whole "push" went. The visitors were so full of mirth and music that the bride and groom heard them before they reached the house and slipped out the back door into th~ corn field where they spent the time until the seren=1ders took their departure. Herald Russell, oldest child of George S. and Nelly ( Angel Russell, was born at Windham, April, 1883 in the same house that his father and grandfather were born in.He was removed to Towanda with the family in 1901 and was educated at the Towanda High school. He was in the milk and butter busi­ ness with his father for several years and then conductor on the Lehigh railroad for 18 months. He then helped run a shoe store in Towanda. He married Ruth M. Reed of Towanda, July 13, 1915. The RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 85 ceremony was performed by Rev. DeWitt Hooker of the First M. E. church. In November, 1915, he moved to Boston and engaged in the garage business with his brother-in-law.

Lillian Sara Russell, second child of George S. and Nelly (Angel) Russell, was born in Windham, Pa., July 25, 1891 in the same house that her father and grandfather were born and that her great grandfather lived in. She removed to Townda with her parents in 1901 and attended the High school and graduated in 1910. She then took a four year course in vocal and instrumental music at the Ithica Conser­ vatory of Music and graduated there in June, 1914. She then went to teaching music in the city of Towanda, Pa., and vi­ cinity. She, in company with her mother, made an extensive visit to her cousins, Mrs. Dr. Abell of Sedalia, Mo., and L. C. Russell and others at Warren, Ill., in the fall of 1910 and again in 1915, she in company with her parenst, visited the Panama exposition at San Diego, and San Francisco, the cit­ ies of Los Angeles, Salt Lake, Denver, Omaha and the cous­ ins in Warren, Ill.

Nella D. Russell Billings, second child of Lewis S. and Sara C. (Kuykendall) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., July 8, 1868 in the same house where her father was born and lived 71 years and died. She attended the Kingston Seminary for several years and graduated there with honors.

In 1885 while she was yet at the seminary at Kingston, Pa., she received a telegram that her father was sick at Parkers­ burg, Ia. She at once started to go and care for him, first going to Windham expecting to get money from home to pay her expenses. Finding her brother George had already gone ahead taking all the money with him, she bravely pushed on with $3.00 in her purse and a Masonic pin to satisfy the con­ ductors that she was. a Mason's daughter.

The Nichols ticket agent first placed heir in the care of the conductor, with instructions for him to pass her on to his successor and so on until she arrived at Parkersburg in safe- RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM ty. While at Kingston going to school she met Mr. Harry· Billings whom she married June 29, 1893. He was born Oct. 27, 1868. They settled in Tunkhannock, Pa., where he is carrying on. an extensive business with his brother. Ch]dren of Harry and Ella (Russell) Billings 1. Sara Russell Billings, born at Tunkhannock, May 20,. 1894. 2. Jennie Lull Billings, born at Tunkhannock, Apr. 12~. 1898. 3. · Ruth Harriet Billings, born at Tunkhannock, Aug. 29~. 1906. Sara Russell Billings, oldest child of Harry and Ella ( Rus­ sell) Billings, born at Tunkh~nnock, Pa., May 20, 1894 and' lives at home 1917. Jennie Lull Billings, second child of Harry and EPa D: (Russell) Billings, was born at Tunkhannock, Pa., Apr. 12, 1898. Ruth Harriet Billings, third child of Harry and Ella D; (Russell) Billings, was born at Tunkhannock, Pa., Aug. 29, 1906. Ralph W. Russell, third child of Julius and Eliza (Sey­ mour) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Feb. 3, 1828. He lived at home with his parents until he became of age and attended the public school and Owego academy. In 1851 he purchased a farm in Milan, known as the Platt Smith farm and commenced farming in which he was very successful. Married Bethiah C., daughter of Samuel Wheaton of War­ ren, Pa. He taught the Milan school the winter of 1854. They remained on the farm until 1869, when they purchased a home on Fourth street, Towanda, Pa., and moved into it. He engaged in the hardware bu~iness with Codding & Rus­ s.ell.. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM 87

Witli his family he made an extended visit among his cousins in w;sconsin in 1872 and also went to inspect his land near Clear Lake, Ia. Children of Ralph W. and Bethiali (Wheaton) Russell 1. Mary Eliza, born Jan. 2·, 1857 at M'ilan, Pa. 2. · Fred R. Russell, born Apr. 16, 1863 at Milan, Pa. Ralph W. died Apr. 17, 1873 at his home in Towanda. She died at their home on Fourth street, Mar. 10, 1878. Both were interred at Towanda. Mary Eliza R~1ssell Harris Abell, oldest child of Ralph W. and Bethiah (Wheaton) Russell, was born at Milan, Pa., Jan. 2: 1857. She was an accomplished musician and traveled ex­ tensively. She married Hon. Joseph R. Harris, a R. R. Law­ yer of St. Louis, Mo. After their marriage they went to Texas and purchased a large ranch where they raised Cash­ mere goats. His health failed and he died in San Antonia, Tex., Sept. 26, 1887. Then Mary and her brother Fred closed up their business and left the state. She married (2) Dr. Daniel Abell of Se­ dalia, Mo., where he practices medicine. He owns large farms nearby, where he spends much of his time. She is very much interested in the Genealogy and early history of the Russell family. She joined the D. A. R. and her national number in the society is 22178. The record can be found in the D. A. R. lineage book. She was Regent of her chapter for several years. Fred Russell, second child of Ralph and Bathiah (Wheat­ ,ya) Russell. was born at Milan, Pa., Apr. Q, 1853 and was removed to Towanda with his parents in 1869 and graduated there. At his majority he went to Texas on a. goat ranch. While on the ranch at ~tis daily duty he was thrown from a horse and struck on his head, receiving injuries from which he never recovered. He married Huldy---in Texas about 1891 and raised a family. RUSSELLS IN WINDHAM

Children of Fred and Holdy Russell 1. Raymond Russell, born Oct. 24, 1892. 2. Ralph W. Russell, born Feb. 19, 1894. 3. Dan~el W. Russell, born Oct. 22, 1895. Raymond R. Russell, oldest child of Fred and Hulda Rus­ sell, was born at Helotas, Bexar County, Texas, Oct. 24, 1892. He is traveling salesman in the state of Texas for the Water Pierce Oil Company. He married Meta Henderson Gibson, July 23, 1914. Their daughter, Mary Wilson Russell, was born July 18, 1915. Ralph W. Russell, second child of Fred and Hulda Russell, was born ·Feb. 19, 1894 at Gallagher Ranch, Medina County, Texas. He is studying mechanical engineering at the A. & M. College, College Station, Texas. Daniel Abell Russell, third son of Fred and Hulda Russell, was born at Helotes, Baxar County, Texas, Oct. 22, 1895. He is studying medicine in the Medical Department of the University of Texas at Galveston, Tex., and expects to grad­ uate in the spring of 1918. Mary Ann Russell, fourth child of Julius and Eliza (Sey­ n1our) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Feb. 14, 1833 and died Aug. 7, 1843, aged 10 years. Richard H. Russell, fifth child of Julius and Eliza (Sey­ mour) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Feb. 5, 1839. Being of a delicate nature he was not expectd to labor much but often went hunting and fishing. One day in September, 1851, he accidentally shot himself very badly in his left arm. The load lodg:d in his left shoulder, nearly proving fatal. He finally recovered and commen~ed the study of medicine in Towanda, Pa, but was taken sick and died at the home of Hon. Chauncey S. Russell, Aug. 3, 1863. D~ath resulted from diphtheria. Interment was made at Windham. DR GEORGE WASHING TON RUSSELL

CHAPTER VI

*Dr. George Washington Russell, the tenth child of John and Mary (Woodruff) Russell, was born in Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 21, 1800. Was removed with his parents to Orwell, Pa., in the spring of 1801, thence to a farm on the Susquehanna river, three miles above Nichols, N. Y. and remained there until his parents in November, 1815, returned to Connecti­ cut, where his mother died Jan. 1, 1816. His father then broke up ho".lsekeeping and George, a lad of 15, went to live with his brother Samuel at Middleton that winter and go to school. The next spring he went to live with his brothers Barzillai, John and William at Hartford. A part of the time he went to schoo ~ and the rest of the time he clerked in a store. In 1820 h= returned to Windham to clear a farm which he dis­ posed of in 1825 and went to Waterloo, N. Y., v;here he mar­ ried Susan Bear, June 27, 1826, only child of John and Jennie (Rathfan) Bear. John Bear was a son of George and Mary (Moyer) Bear of York, Pa. Su$an Bear Russell was born June 30, 1806. They lived at Waterloo for three years, but being troubled with the ague there he returned to Windham where he en­ gaged in farming and studying medicine. The first winter after coming back to Windham, he taught the District school. In 1840 he dispcsed of his farm a~d bought another at Milan, Pa., on what is known as Queen Esther's Flatts. When he first moved to Mi1an, he went into partnership with Dr. Johnson and practiced medicine until 1850, when he dropped hls medical practice and engaged as general Attor­ ney for the old soldiers of the war of 1812 and 1814, ob- 90 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE taining pensions and bounty land in which he was very suc­ cessful. This remunerative busin~ss was thrown in his path by mere accident, which happened th:1s: As he was taking a stranger from Philadelphia across the river in a skiff, the stranger was telling him about the ne-.v law that had just passed Congress, granting the soldiers pensions and bounty land. It was a grand opportunity for a man with money to buy up these land warrants and locate them on the Government land that was just coming into mar­ ket in the western states. In less than ten minutes he had his p!ans all arranged for a new life and how he could settle his ten children on farms in the west, with his limited means. He had but litt1.e money, so he established himself as the soldiers' Attorney to p-:it thro:igh these claims and so obtained all the land warran:~ that he could purchase and then located them on Government land in Wisconsin and Iowa. After one year of hard work driving and soliciting in his new enterprise and investing all of his spare money, he ob­ tained enough land warrants to enter several hundred acres of Government land. In the spring of 1851 he took his son John and went to Wisconsin and picked ont ~n La Fayette County all the land that he had warrants to locate with. Af­ ter his purchase he returned home, leaving John partly to prove the country and to locate other warrants as he cou:d procure and forward them. He made a visit to the west each year to locate more land. In the year of 1856 he again entered into the same business operating under a new act of Congress, granting pensions and bounty land to the Revolutionary and all other soldiers, and was again successful. He closed up his six years of venture and hard work, hav­ ing obtained enough land to furnish each of his ten children a good farm. In October, the same year, he sold his farm in Milan, Pa., RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 91 and on May 1, 1857 he emigrated with his family to Gratiot, Wis., settling on and improving a part of the land lying in La Fayette County. While living in Pennsylvania and Gratiot, Wis., he was ac­ tive in all of the enterprises of a new country and was honor­ ed w'ith many p:iblic offices. In politics he was a staunch Ja~kson Democrat, in religion he believed in Universal Sal­ vation. When he arrived on the virgin soil of Wisconsin, he cast off his politics and his medical profession and became an active tiller of the soil. He applied his whole energy sub­ duing his wild land. The soil, being rich, he made a special­ ty of grain ra'ising. Children of Dr. George W. and Susan (Bear) Russell The age of these ten children were the greatest longevity of life of any Russell family for the last three hundred years. 1. John Bear Russell, born at Waterloo, N. Y., May 5, 1827. Died May 1, 1914, aged 87. 2. G2orge -v.,rashington Russell, born at Waterloo, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1828. Died Aug. 15, 1909, .aged 81. 3. Mary Jane (Russell) Randall, born at Windham, Pa., Feb. 15, 1830. Living, 1917, aged 88. 4. Harriet (Russell) Dunbar, born at Windham, Pa., Nov. 16, 1~32. Died June 25, 1907, aged 73. 5. Angeline (Russell) Tuttle, born at Windham, Pa., June 13, 1833. Died May 6, 1901, aged 68. 6. Amanda (Russell) West, born at Windham, Pa., Sept. 28, 1834. Died Nov. 28, 1914, aged 80. 7. Louisa Maria (Russell) Wright, born at Windham, Pa., Nov. 5, 1837. Died Nov. 2, 1912, aged 75. 8. Read Russell, born at Windham, Pa., Apr. 4, 1839. Died Oct. 18, 1910, aged 71. 9. Sarah Catherine (Russell) Munson, born in Ulster, Pa., Nov. 4, 1847. Living, 1917, aged 76. 10. Lewis Clark Russell, born Mar. 13, 1844 at Ulster, Pa. Living, 1917, aged 74. 92 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

This makes an average of seventy-seven and three·-tenths years and the continuation of three lives yet to be added.

Dr. Russell died on his prairie farm fo".lr miles west of Gratiot, Nov. 2, 1870.

Susan, his wife, died Oct. 1, 1878, aged 72.

They were both interred in the P1easant View cemetery three miles west of Gratiot.

Susan (Bear) Russell, only child of John and Jenny (Bear) Russell, was born at Waterloo, N. Y., June 30, 1806. Her grandparents were George Bear of Co ~umbia, Lancast2r County, Pa., and Mary, his wife. My grandmother, Jenny Bear's name, before she was married was Jenny Rathfan. a daughter of Christian and Elizabeth Rathfan. Mrs. Rath­ fan's name before her marriage was Elizabeth Moyer of York, Pa.

John Bear, Susan's father, was a soldier in the New York State Volunteer Cavalry in the war of 1812-1814. At home he was a tanner and courier.

Susan Bear R~:ssell was a strong and healthy woman al­ ways well, except an occasional headache, while the doctor was of a delicate physique, having his health injured by the ague while he lived at Waterloo, N. Y. John Bear Russell, oldest child of Dr. George W. and Su­ san (Bear) Russell, was born at Waterloo, N. Y., May 1, 1827. At the age of two years was removed to Windham9 Pa. After remaining there on the farm eleven years he was removed to Milan, Pa., and settled there on a farm where he attended the district school and Athens Academy. Here in Milan he and his younger brother George had the management of the farm mostly as the father was quite busy in his medical practice. In 1851 he first came west with his father to locate land warrants that his father had ob- RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 93 tained for soldiers in the war of 1812. First to Janesville, Wis., where Unc1e John lived, thence to Shullsburg by stage as they were ahead of all railroads. After examining and choosing on several pieces of government land they went to Mineral Point, where the government land office was situ­ ated and they located all of the land warrants on such tracts as suited them best-mostly on the Shullsburg prairie. His father then returned home to obtain more warrants while John remained to prove the country and locate what warrants his father sent him. He spent the summer in Mon­ t!c~llo, working for Blackstone and Andrew Doyle. One day while b;nding oats for Mr. Doyle he got a rattle snake mix­ ed up in his bund1e and while he was tightening the band the snake protested by rattling. John did not press the case until he got reinforcements. In the fall he returned home and gave a glowing account of the Shullsburg prairie as a farming country but on account of finance did not return to the west for several years. In 1854 he opened up a general store in Milan, which he closed oat to J. D. Anthony •in 1856 and immediately started for Wisconsjn on Sept. 28, 1856, with a wagon and span of horses, in company with his brother, George W. In five d":tys they arrived at Buffalo, N. Y. and took boat for Detrorit, then~e on Michigan Central railroad to New Buffalo on the east shore of Lake Michigan, thence on boat for Chicago and had a rough time crossing the lake. As soon as the boat landed, the boys hustled to get started out on their first ex­ perience on the prairie, where the wind blew so hard it near­ ly took the lines oat of their hands. They first went to their Uncle John Russell at Janesville, Wis., thence to Yankee Hol- 1ow, Argyle, thence to Kendal, Wis., thence to Iowa via P~at~eville, Pra:rie du Chien, McGregor and on to Clear Lake, ,vhere they were expecting to make their future home, but finding the country so new and having been s,vept by a prairie fire, left b-:1t little inducements to remain there. They returned to Argyle to1 start a home and soon built a log house at that place. Jan. 19, 1858, he married Freelove 94 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

Elona Abell at her father's home in Warren, Pa., a daughter of Daniel Abell, was born in w~rren, Sept. 23, 1832. The two brothers dissolved partnership in the spring of 1860 and he then went on his own land in Kendal, Wis. In 1858 he sold that two hundred acre farm and purch~sed one four miles west of Darlington, which proved to be a very pro­ ductive farm and one he lived on and worked until the spring of 1877. He then moved to Darlington City, where his wife died Feb. 3, 1878. While in Da,rlington he went into the ag­ ricultural warehouse business for a season. He married (2) Olive A. Huber, Aug. 26, 1879 of S'huPs­ burg, Wis., and sett1ed again oc the farm which he sold in 1883 and purchased a part of the Law farm near Dunbarton, Wis. In 1898 he sold his farm near Dunbarton to Will and Em­ ma Hicks and moved to Platteville, Wis., for the purpose of educating his children.

Children of John B. and Elona F. (Abell) Russell 1. George Abell, born at Kendal, Oct. 22, 1860. 2. Edward Daniel Russell, born at Ke~dal, Aug. 26, 1866. 3. Mary Elona Russell, bon1 at Darlington, Wis., Aug. 17, 1870.

Children of John B. and Olive (Huber) Russell 1. Cora Janet Russell, was bc,rn at Darlington, S~pt. 23, 1881. 2. Frank Huber Russell, was born near Dunbarton, Wis., Mar. 9, 1883. John Bear Russell died at Platteville, Wis., Apr. 1, 1914. Olive (Huber) Russell died at Platteville, Jan. 14, 1912. Dr. George Abell Russell, oldest child of John B. and Elona F. (Abell) Russell, was born at Kendal, Wis., Oct. 22, 1860 on a farm adjoining the Lighthouse farm. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 95

He attend~d the District school in Kendal and west of Dar­ lington and graduated at the Darlington High schooil June 20, 1880. Moved with his parents to the Gen. Law farm near Dunbarton in the spring of 1883 and in company with Ed­ win R. Tuttle, worked the William W. Tuttle farm. He taught the Kingsley district school one year and soon after attended the University at Evanston, Ill. and then commenced the study of medicine at the Hahnemann Medical college of Chicago, Ill., and graduated there Feb. 16, 1888 and located at Booneville, Mo., where he has worked up a fine practice by thrift and hard work. He married Emaly Fowler at the same town, February, 1900. He has made several visits back to his o1 d home since being married. Edward Daniel Russell, second child of John and Elona F. (Ab~ll) Russell, was born at Kendal, Wis., Aug. 26, 1866. Was remoyed to a farm four miles west of Darlington and from thence in 1877 to the city of Darlington and attended the High school, thence to the farm again with the family, 1879. In 1883 from thence to a farm near Dunbarton, where he married Josephine Wetherby, a school teacher and daugh­ ter of George Wetherby of Shullsburg, Wis., on Mar. 15, 1899. He was in the U. S. employ of the Posto:ffice Depart­ ment, from 1895, letting mail routes and traveled all over the country from Maine to California, inclusive and contin­ ued. in that business until the office was abolished on account of the Free Rural Delivery of the mail In 1899 he moved to PlatteviUe and 1901 he and his wife Josephine went to Salina, Kas, to take the management of Edwin R Tuttle's laundry and remained there three or four years and then came back to Platteville where he operated a furniture store for a number of years. He now, 1917, lives at Platteville and is bookkeeper in a hardware sto:-c belonging to G. S. Hesser Company. Mary Elona Russell Dugdale, third child of John and Elona (Abell) Russell, was born on a farm west of Darlington, Aug. 17, 1870. She went to the District school, spent one year with her uncle, Dr. Abell at Sedalia and graduated at the '96 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

Sedalia High school in 1890. She then taught the Kingsley school one year, then attended the Platteville Normal, grad-­ uating there June, 1894 and taught several terms of school. On Dc-c. 19, 1896, she married Robert Dugdale of Platteville, Wis., at her home in Gratiot, Wis. They moved and s~ttled at Essex, Iowa, where he bought out and run the Essex Independent n~wspap3r, which he sold out and came baek to P~atteville in 1897 and bo:tght o"..lt the Grant County News and was a great s ·"'pporter of Senator La Follette, when he was elected Governor of Wiscons1n At the St. Louis fair he had charge of the Wisconsin min­ ing exhibit and was a resident Regent of the Wisconsin min­ ing school when it was first established in Platteville He was raised on a farm and new owns one in the north­ ern part of Minnesota which he purchased about 1912 and is improving it rapidly. Elona Dugdale, o!dest child of Rob~rt and Mary E. (Rus­ sell) Dugdale, was born at Essex, Iowa, Oct. 25, 1897 and at­ tended the Platteville High school and grad".la-:;ed there M~y 31, 1917. Elona is making a sp~cialty of Domestic Science and is attending Stout Institute at Menominee, Wis., and ex­ pects to take a full course in this college. Iliff Dugdale, second child of Robert and Mary E. ( Rus­ sell) Dugdale, was born at Platteville, Wis., Apr. 29, 1899. Died at Platteville, Apr. 29 ,1908 with heart failure. Cora Janet Russell, oldest child of John 2.nd Olive (Huber) Russell, was born at Darlington on a farm, Sept_ 23, 1881 and attended school at Kingsley and taught tr..e Kingsley school one year and then attended the State Normal schoc-1 at Platte­ ville, Wis., and graduated there in June, 1903. From lJOt to 1907 she taught the high school at Belleville, Wis., in 1910 she taught out in the Rockey mountains not far from Mos­ cow, Idaho, and visited the coast before coming home. In 1911 she taught in the Cuba City high school and gave that up on aecount of the illness of her mother and accepted a position as assistant in Judge Clary's Income tax office for RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 97 two years. She then went to teaching near St. Paul for two years and from thence to Thief River Falls to teach in the fall of 1917. Frank Huber R11ssell~ second c11ild of John Bear and Olive (Huber) R1..1sseU, was born on a farm llear Dunbarton, Wis., Mar. 9, 1883 and gradu:lted at the Wisconsin State Normal at Platteville in June, 1909 and went to the state of Wash­ ington and taught school in 1910, then went into the Galena Iron Works at Platteville as bookkeeper one year, then began work as a machin:st and has become Master Mechanic. He has p ~rchased a farm of 120 acres near Platteville but rents the farm and works in the iron factory. He married Myrtle Calloway at Platteville, Wis., June 22, 1910, a daughter of Samson and Emma Calloway and settled in Plattevil~e, Wis. He is yet in the Galena Iron Works at Platteville, Wis. Georg~ Washington Russell, second child of George W. and Susan (Bear) Russell, was born at Waterloo, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1828 and was removed to Windham, Pa., in 1829 and re­ mained there eleven yars. He then went to Milan, Pa., where he received the most of his education and helped carry on and clear his father's farm and here he learned the stone, brick laying and plastering business. In the year of 1855 he traveled as general agent for getting through Bounty Land and Pensions for the Revolutionary soldiers, their widows and orphans and soldiers of other wars claiming Bounty Land and Pens~ons. He was very successful and obtained a nice body of Jand for himself in Wisconsin and Iowa. Much of the land that cost him one dollar and a quarter an acre in 1855 was worth $80 to $100 an acre at the time of his death. He emigrated to Wisconsin in company with his brother John, with a span of horses and wagon, driving all the way excspt on the boat and cars from Buffalo to Chicago, first to Janesville to thefr Uncle John's place, thence to Argyle near Yankee Hollow thence to Clear Lake, la. The country was so new and the feed burned off for miles and miles around 98 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

so they turned back to Argyle and went into winter quarters with John and Edward Robinson in Bachelor Hollow and went to building them a snug l_ittle log house which they finished in March and moved into at once. George W. and John B. farmed it together in Argyle until 1850, then John went on his own land in Kendal and Georg~ went to live with his father in Gratiot, where he lived until he got married to Mary Jane Dawson of Shullsburg, May 24, 1855. She was born Dec. 2, 1842 at East Fork, Jo Da­ viess county, Illinois. They settled on E ½ of SE¼ of Section 3, where they lived the rest of their lives. He bought this piec2 of land from H. H. Gray at eight dollars an acre, about the year of 1832. The same year he so~d his Argyle farm of 240 acres, to John Robison and bought the Shephard farm in Shullsb·1rg, lSO acres and 80 acres adjoining it on the north, known as the Joseph More farm, making 240 acres in all. He rented a portion of his land for some years. He made quite a spec­ ialty of raising flax. All these years he established the name of "Trading George" and on all occasions he kept his name good.In 1878 he sold the Shephard farm and purchased part of the Law farm, joining his home farm. In 187 4 he built himself a very nice residence ~nd opened his doors to have many church festivals. He was one of the Trustees of the church, not a member, but a free supporter and a staunch Prohibitionist. In 1904 he went to Idaho for a year or two to visit with his daughter Georgianna Thomp­ son. Children of George W. and Mary Jane (Dawson) Russell 1. Grant R. Russell, born at Gratiot, Wis., July 9, 1867. 2. Elvin R. Russell, born at Gratiot, Apr. 14, 1869. 3. Della Isabel Russell Thompson, born at Gratiot, Feb. 14, 1871. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 99

4. Georgianna Russell Thompson, born at Gratiot, Feb. 20, 1875. 5. Belva Lockwood Russell, born Feb. 28, 1885, died Aug­ ust, 1885. Mary Jane (Dawson) Russell died at Gratiot, Wis., Feb­ ruary, 1903. George went to Moscow, Idaho, for his second visit about 1906 and remained there three or four years and died at his daughter's home, Aug. 15, 1909. After George was taken sick Elvin, his son, went west to accompany his father home, but he passed away in a few days and was brought home and interred in the Pleasant View cemetery. Grant R. Russell, oldest child of George W. and Mary Jane (Dawson) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Wis., July 9, 1867, on a farm, and attended school at Kingsley and married Han­ nah Steel, June 2, 1891. She was a daughter of William Steel of Gratiot, Wis. The next spring he went on to L. C. Russell's farm and worked it for two years and then went on his father's farm and p:1rchased 200 acres of that in the spring of 1906, where he now lives. He makes a specialty of poultry and hog rais­ ing. He was elected Town Treasurer of Gratiot in 1912 and held the office for four consecutive years. He is a director in the Darlington Fire Insurance company and Alderman on the Gratiot board for two years, commencing 1916. Children of Grant R. and Hannah Russell 1. Edith Mae Russell, born 1893. 2. Della Hannah Russell, born Feb. 15, 1895. 3. George Steel Russell, born Feb. 7, 1898. 4. Grant Roland Russell, born Jan. 15, 1902. 5. Harold William Russell, born Jan. 16, 1904. 100 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

6. Marjorie M?.retta Russell, born Aug. 10, 1910. Died May 3: 1314. Edith Mae Russe!l, oldest child of Grant R. and Hannah (Steel) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Wis., Apr. 28, 1893 and attended the Kingsley public school and graduated in June, 1910. She then at~ended the Wisconsin Normal school at Platteville and is a proficient teacher in music, a member of the M. E. church and the Country Life club. She married Char ~es Devery Rennick of Shullsburg, W·ls., a son of Frank and Elizabeth (Jewell) Rennick of the same place in the presenc~ of their own immediate friends. The marriage vow was pronounced by Rev. Mr. Haskell of the M. E. church at six o'clock, Feb. 5, 1917, at home. Miss Bessie Clay presided at the piano; Miss Bernice Ren­ nick, Mr. George Russell, Miss Della H. Russell and Kenn~t11 Zeigle were attendants. Mr. Charles Rennick is an active, ambitious farmer, living near Shullsburg.They attended the sixth R"lssell Reanion at Warren, Ill., June 20, 1917. He registered for the army was drawn and passed a physical examination but was ex empted on account of being a dependant to his family. Della Hannah Russell, second child of Grant R. and Han­ nah ( Stee1) Russell, was bo1'n on a farm in Gratiot, Wis., Feb. 15, 1895, attended the Kings~ey school and grad 1ated in June, 1912. The next year she taught the Neff Chapman school and the Kingsley school the next four years. She is a member of the M. E. church and the Country Life club and always attends the Russell reunions. George Steel Russell, third child of Grant R. and Hannah (Steel) Russell, was born on a farm in Gratiot, Feb. 7, 1898, and grew up on the farm and graduated at the Kingsley school, June, 1913 and remains on the farm with his parents. Grant Rolland Russell, fourth child of Grant R. and Han­ nah (Steel) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Jan. 13, 1902 and RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 101 attended the Kingsley school and graduated at the Kingsley District school, June, 1916, after the remarkable record of attending school six consecutive years without being absent or tardy at call of school during this whole time. He is in his second year at the Gratiot High school. Harold William Russell, fifth child of Grant and Hannah (Steel) Russell, born at Gratiot on a farm, Jan. 16, 1904 and attended the Kingsley school and graduated there at the re­ markable young age of twelve years in June, 1916. He, too, attended school four years without losing a day or being tardy on any occasion. He is in his first year at Gratiot High school. Marjorie Meretta Russell, sixth child of Grant and Hannah (Steel) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Wis., Aug. 10, 1910. Died May 3, 1914. Elvin R. Russell, second child of George W. Jr., and Mary Jane (Da·wson) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Wis., Apr. 14, 1869. He attended the District school and took a short course in the Agricultural College at· Madison, Wis., for two years. On Oct. 5, 1892, he married Harriet Mary McCoy. She was born Oct. 25, 1869, a daughter of John and Harriet Mc Coy of Scotch parentage. He then settled· on his father's farm, first renting it and then purchasing 200 acres of it. In August, 1909, he went to Idaho after his father who was sick at that place, and brought home the remains. He handles cows and hogs, mostly, on his farm. Children of Elvin R. and Harriet (McCoy) Russell 1. Bernice Russell Nethery, born Sept. 2, 1895. 2. Elvin Russell, born Dec. 3, 1899. In order to keep his farm in good condition he feeds his stock all the grain that is raised on the place. Bernice Russell Nethery, oldest child of Elvin R. and Har- 102 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE lrlet (McCoy) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Wis., Sept. 2, 1895 and raised on a farm. She attended the Kingsley school and graduated there June, 1912, and married Harry Nethery, a son of John and Mary (Glendenning) Nethery of Shullsburg, Wis., on Dec. 23, 1914 at her home in Gratiot, Wis. He helped work his mother's farm the year of 1915 and the year of 1916 and 1917, he and Elvin Russell, Jr., worked Elvin R. Russell's farm in Gratiot, Wis. Harry was born Mar. 8, 1892 at Shullsburg, Wis. c-n a farm. He registe1ed in Gratiot, June 5, 1917 for the defense of his country and was exempt on account of being a dependent to his family. Eunice Georgianna N cthery, oldest child of Harry and Bernice (Russell) Nethery, was born on a farm in Gratiot, Wis., Wednesday, Sept. 27, 1916. Elvin Russell, Jr., second· child of Elvin R. and Harriet (McCoy) Russell, was born on ~ farm in Gratiot, Wis., Dec. 3, 1899 and attended the Kingsley school, where he gradu­ ated, June, 1914. He in company with Harry Nethery, worked his father's _farm in the year of 1916 and 1917. On Saturday, Sept. 15, 1917, at Freepcrt, Ill., he married Genevieve Lopshire of Shullsburg, daug}1ter of Mary Lop­ shire-Tangye of that place. The ceremony was performed by Rev. James O'May of Freeport. Genevieve (Lopshire) Russell, born in the spring of 1900. Della Isabel Russell Thompson, third child of George W. and Mary Jane (Dawson) Russell, born at Gratiot, Wis., Feb. 14, 1871. She attended the Kingsley school and ac­ companied her parents to Pennsylvania in 1883. She married Ashton Thompson, Jan. 25, 1893 and died Oct. 28, 1893 on the Thompson farm in Wiota, Wis. They had one girl, Della. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 103

Della Thompson, only child of Ashton and Della (Russell) Thompson, was born at Wiota, Oct. 26, 1893. When she was two days old ·her mother died and she went to live with her grandparents, George W. and Mary Jane Russell, where she died in a year or two. Georgianna Russell Thompson, fourth child of George W. and Mary Jane (Dawson) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Wis., Feb. 20, 1875 and she, too, accompanied her parents to Penn­ sylvania in 1883 and married Ashton Thompson, Oct. 21, 1897. He sold his farm at Red Rock, Wiota, about 1900. Was on the Orchard Grove farm a year or two. March, 1902, they moved to Moscow, Idaho and farmed there until about 1910, thence to Montana for four years where he took up a homest2ad. He so!d out in October, 1914 and bought a farm at Turtle Lake, Wis., November, 1914, where he now resides, 1917. Children of Ashton and Georgianna (Russell) Thompson

1. Hellen Russell Thompson, born Feb. 5, 1900 at Wiota, Wis. 2. Paul Russell Thompson, born Feb. 17, 1907 at Moscow, Idaho. 3. Mary Adaline Th~mpson, born Oct. 12, 1908 at Moscow. 4. Samuel George Thompson, born June 3, 1910. 5 Zola Georgianna Thompson, born ,Ju11e 3, 1910 at Mos­ cow, Tdaho. Hellen Russell Thompson, oldest child of Ashton and Geor­ gianna (Russell) Thompson, was born at Red Rock, Wiota, 'Nis., on a farm, Feb. 5, 1900. Emigrated with her parents to Moscow, Idaho, in 1902 and attended school there. Moved to Montana about 1910 for four years, thence to Turtle Lake, Wis., November 1914 and attended a high school near St. Paul and will graduate there in 1918. 104 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

Paul Russell Thompson, seeond child of Ashton and Geor­ gianna (Russell) Thompson, was born at Moscow, Idaho, Feb. 17, 1907. Was removed to Montana in 1910 with the family for four years, thence to Turt~e Lake, Wis., in 1914 and is attending school at that p!ace. Mary Adaline Thompson, third child of Ashton and Geor­ gianna (Russell) Thompson, born at Moscow, Idaho, Oct. 12, 1908. Was removed to Montana for four years, thenc~ to Turtle Lake, Wis., in Novembr, 1914 a!1d is attending sc:1001 at that place. Samuel George Thompson, tW1n to Zo1a Georgianna, child­ ren of Ashton and Georgianna (Russell) Thompson, ,vas born at Moscow, Idaho, June 3, ~910. Was removed to Montana in 1910, thence to Turtle Lake in Noverabcr, 1914, where they attend school. Belva Lockwood Russell, fifth child of George W. and M2.ry Jane (Dawson) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Wis., Feb. 28, 1885 and died August, 1885. Mary Jane Russell Randall, third child of Dr. George W. and Susan (Bear) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Feb. 15, 1830 and lived on a farm there eleven years and then was ·removed to Milan, Pa., on a farm where she received the most of her education, her last teacher being her future husband. On Mar. 15, 1849 she was married to John Randall, born Apr. ·21, 1824 at Willingford, Ruihland County, Vt. They settled in Sheshequin, where he purchased a grist and saw mill, which he operated for about fourteen years. In winter he would purchase logs from the mountain on the west side of the river and would raft and float them across to his saw mill the following spring, then saw and run the lumber down the river to market at Baltimore. In 1863 he sold out his property in Sheshequin and moved to Gratiot, Wis., and began farming. His first venture was to purchase an 80 acre farm near RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 105

Shullsburg, Wis., in 1866. After working that for two years he sold it in 1868 and purchased a 200 acre farm two miles west of Warren, where he remained the rest of his life. They built a nice comfortable house in 187 4. Children of John and Mary Jane (Russell) Randall 1. Douglas Lewis, born Dec. 23, 1849. Died Feb. 11, 1853. 2. John Wesley, born Dec. 3, 1852. 3. Flora Susan, born Jan. 27, 1854. 4. Louisa Mariah, born Feb. 11, 1858. 5. Ella Angeline, born Sept. 1, 1861. Died Mar. 13, 1869. 6. George Russell, born May 31; 1863. 7. Harriet Angeline, born Aug. 15, 1864. 8. Mary Delphene, born June 28, 1868. 9. Samuel Lewis, born July 17, 1869. John Randall was well educated himself and equally as willing to educate his own children. Several of them are graduates. He was able to keep his own counsel, a man of more than ordinary ability. He died on his farm June, 1904. Mary Jane, his wife, makes her home for many years with her daughter, Harriet Farren in Warren, III., and of late celebrate~ her birthdays on Feb. 15, and invites her nearest r~latives to the feast. Douglas Lewis, oldest child of John and Jane Randall, was born Dec. 23, 1849 at Sheshequin, Pa., and died there Feb. 11, 1853 . .John Wesley Randall, second child of John and Mary Jane (Russell) Randall, was born at Sheshequin, Pa., Dec. 3, 1852. Moved to Wisconsin with his parents in 1863 and attended district and Warren high school. He ran a threshing ma­ chine in 1873 and 187 4. Went to Iowa and purchased a 106 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

piece of land in 1875 and married Lillie L. Andrews, Feb. 3, 1881, daughter of Leonard and Lavina Andrews. Moved to Clear Lake in 1882 and in the fall of 1885, they moved to Gratiot. The year of 1887 he commenced working his fa­ ther's farm and remained on it thirteen years. He then moved to Kansas and is now farming there. Lillie, his wife, was born at Franklinville, N. Y., May 25, 1856.

Children of John W. and Lillie (Andrews) Randall 1. George Samuel, born at Warren, Ill., November, 1885. 2. Lewis Wesley, born at Gratiot, Wis., Nov. 13,1888, died Oct. 15, 1905. George Samuel Randall, oldest child of John and Lillie (Andrews) Randall, was born at Warren, Ill., November, 1886 and went with his parents to Kansas in 1900 and s2t­ tled on the Arkansas river at Desota and is a school teacher. On July, 1911, he married Iris Robbins. They have two children, namely: 1. Arthur Randall, was born Aug. 28, 1914. 2. Margaret Iris Randall, was born December, 1916. Flora Susan Randall Hermann, third child of John and Mary Jane (Russell) Randall, was born at Sheshequin, Pa., Jan. 27, 1854. When she was nine years old, her parents moved to Wisconsin and settled on the Shullsb:irg Prairie. She attended district and Warren high school and taught school. She married Henry Hermann, April 20, 1886 and they settled on his farm near Mason City, Ia., adjoining a piece of land her mother gave her. He became quite an extensive cattle raiser and feeder. To carry on his cattle business more extensively he purchased three thousand acres of land in Dakota for pasture and a place to keep his cattle during the summer. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 107

About 1900 he built a fine house in Mason City and moved to that p!ace. His health soon failed and in spite of medi­ cal aid and kind care, he died at his home in Mason City, Ia., in 1904, leaving his wife, Flora (Randall) Hermann and daughter Harriet, from his former wife, to mourn his de­ parture. Harriet, his only child, was born at Mason City, Ia., Jan. 3, 1885. Her mother died when she was quite young. She attended the college at Mason City and graduated there, also graduating from the college at Iowa City. She then began teaching. She taught one year in the state of Washington and made a tour through the eastern states and cities with her mother, Flora Hermann in 1912. She taught in the college at Mason City in 1913 and married Harry Shontz of Davenport, Ia., January 1914. They had one child, deceased young. Flora Hermann makes her home with the daughter Harriet at Davenport. She attended the Russell reunion in 1915 and 1917 at Warren, Ill. Louisa Maria Randall Kelly, fourth child of John and Mary Jane (Russell) Randall, was born at Sheshequin, Pa., Feb. 11, 1858. Came to Gratiot, Wis., in 1863, thence to Shulls­ burg, thence to a farm west of Warren in 1868. Graduated at the Warren high school and taught school for several years. She married William Kelly, Oct. 23, 1879. He was born in 1854. In 1880 they moved to Cherokee, Ia., where he had a piece of land and where he opened up a grocery store. He moved from thence to Dakota and from thence to Texas, about 1911, on a farm. Children of WiUiam and Louise (Randall) Kelly 1. Ruthe M., born at Gratiot, Wis., Oct. 19, 1880. 2. Richard N ., born at Cherokee, Ia., July 28, 1883. 3. Clarra Louisa, born May 8, 1885. 4. Mary Pearl, born at Cherokee, Ia., Mar. 29, 1886. 5. William, born at Cherokee, Ia., November, 1891. They now live at Hurley, Texas, on a ranch. 108 RUSSELLS ON THE·PRAIRIE

Ruthe M. Kelly Long, oldest child of William and Louisa (Randall) Kelly, was born at Gratiot, Wis., Oct. 19, 1880. Moved with the family to Cherokee, Ia., then came back to. Gratiot and kept house several years for Richard and mar­ ried Odd Long, Nov. 25, 1906 and moved to Washington near Spokane. In 1910 he traded for a farm at Curlew, Wash. Their children are: 1. Herald Long, was born the farthest west and the high- est in altitude of any of the Russell family. Born Sept. 10, 1911. 2. Irvin Long, born ·Sept. 20, 1914 at Curlew, Wash. Richard N. Kelly, second child of William and Louisa M. (Randall) Kelly, was born July 28, 1883. Was raised in Cherokee, Ia., came back to Gratiot with the family and grad­ uated at the Spring Valley school in 1899. He worked his father's farm for six or eight years and the last three or four years did his own cooking and farm work, also. In October, 1914, he commenced a Normal course at the age of thirty-three at Platteville, Wis., to prepare for teach­ ing. While at school he was at the head of his class, but in January, 1916, he gave up his school and went to Louisianna and bought a farm for the purpose of raising fruit. He rents this farm at present. He also speculates in railroad bonds and has been very successful. He then went into the railroad freight depot at W atcrloo, Iowa. Clarra Louisa Kelly, third child of William and Louisa (Randall) Kelly, was born at Cherokee, Ia., May 8, 1885 and removed to Gratiot on a farm and attended school, thence to South Dakota, thence to Hurley, Tex., with her parents. She is a school teacher. Mary Pearl Kelly Johnson, fourth child of William and Louisa (Randall) Kelly, was born at Cherokee, low~, March RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 109

29, 1886 and moved to Gratiot, Wis., with her parents. She attended school at Spring Valley and taught school in South Dakota and married Apr. 7, 1911, F. B. Johnson of Benford, S. D., Aug. 28, 1914 and settled at that place. Children of F. B. and Mary Pearl (Kelly) Johnson 1. Beach Johnson, born at Benford, S. D., Aug. 28, 1914. WilHan1 Kelly, fifth child of William and Louisa (Ran­ dall) Kelly, was born at Cherokee, Ia., November, 1891. Re­ moved to Gratiot with his parents, thence to South Dakota and from thence to Texas, down the Missouri and Missis­ sippi rivers in a skiff stopping at the towns and supplying the people with pictures of their own homes. Now, (1917) resides at Red Oak, Okla. Ella Ange1ine Randall, fifth child of John and Mary Jane (Russell) Randall, was born at Sheshequin, Pa., Sept. 1, 1861. Died Mar. 13, 1869 and was interred in the Pleasant View cemetery, west of Gratiot, three miles. George Russell Randall, sixth child of John and Mary Jane (Russell) Randall, was born at Gratiot, Wis., May 31, 1863. Lived with his parents on a farm in Shullsburg and Gratiot. He attended the district school, the Warren high school and graduated from the college at Ames, Ia., as a mechanical en­ gineer in 1888. For several autumns he ran a threshing en­ gine and taught school winters. In March, 1893, he married Nancy Clay of Stockton, Ill., born Feb. 28, 1868 and opened up a general store at Greenvale, Ill. In 1900 he sold out his s~ore and went on his father's farm which he purchased in 1909. He makes feeding steers and raising hogs a spec­ ialty. Children of George R. and Nancy (Clay) Randall 1. Mae Randall, was born Mar. 19, 1894. 2. Ralph Russell Randall, was born at Greenvale, Sept. 10, 1898. Mae Delphene Randall Myers, oldest child of George and 110 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

Nancy (Clay) Randall, was born at Stockton, Mar. 19, 1893. Was moved to Spring Valley farm in 1900 and attended school there and the Warren high school. Grad11ated at Monroe summer school in 1912. She taught the Spring Val­ ley school in 1912 and 1913. Taught school at Beaman in 1914 and 1915 and married Frank M. Myers of Beaman at Robert Farren's house, the home of her grandmother in Warr2n, Ill., July 8, 1915 at high noon. Rev. Clarence Mil­ ler was officiating minister. Frank Martin Myers, born at Adeline, Ill., D~cemb3r, 1882. Moved to Grundy County, Iowa, 1891. Grad11ated at Iowa City Academy in 1904, from Iowa City University in 1908. Went from thence into an elevator at Beaman as its manager for a few years and is now traveling in the int2r­ est of the elevator's company. Ralph Russell Randall, second child of George and Nan~y (Clay) Randall, was born at Greenvale, Ill., Sept. 10, 1898. Was removed to Spring Valley with his parents on a farm in 1900. He attended school at that place and at the Warren high school for several years and graduated at the Warren high schoo\ June 18, 1917 . Harriet Amanda Randall Farren, seventh child of John and Mary Jane (Russell) Randall, was born on a farm in Gratiot, Wis., Aug. 15, 1834. She was removed to Shullsburg with her parents in 1865 and settled on a farm. In 1838 s~1e was removed to Spring Valley in Gratiot with her parents and attended the district school and Warren high school. After her school days, she followed dressmaking a few years. She married Robert Farren, Oct. 15, 1890, born Oct. 25, 1858. He was a son of John and Mary Farren of Gratiot and settled on the homestead farm of 200 acres. He carried on mixed farming and dairying. He was elected for several terms as Chairman of th~ town board of Gratiot, also a member of La Fayette County board. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 111

He was one of the school trustees of Warren and president of the Board of Trustees of the village of Warren for the years of 1917 and 1918. They moved to Warren in 1908, where they purchased a beautiful residence on West Main street and makes a pleas­ ant home for her mother, Mrs. Mary Jane Randall. He belongs to the Odd Fellows' Lodge. Mary Delphene Randall Dewer, eighth child of John and Mary Jane (Russell) Randall, was born on a farm in Gratiot, '\Vis? .TunP 2S. 1838. She attended public school and grad­ uated at the Warren high school June, 1889 and taught school some years near Cherokee, Ia., and was married at her home in Gratiot, Wis., to Harry Dewer of Cherokee, Ia. They set­ tled on his farm four miles southhwest of that city. He is of Scotch extraction, a member of the Masonic and Odd Fel­ lows' Lodge. She is a Reb~kah and a member of the East­ ern Star. He feeds and ships cons!derable cattle and hogs and sells on the Chicago market. He ·was born_ Dec. 16, 1870. Children of Harry and Mary D. (Randall) Dewer 1. Harry Randall Dewer, born Aug. 24, 1894 at Chero­ kea, Iowa. 2. Hattie Mae Dewer, born Oct. 11, 1895, at Che::-okee, Ia. 3. Archie Russell Dewer, born Mar. 30, 1897 at Chero­ kee, Ia. 4. Robert Vernon Dewer, born July 24, 1898 at Cherokee, Iowa. 5. Laura J. Dewer, born Apr. 15, 1902 at Cherokee, Ia. 6. John Kermet Dewer, born Aug. 4, 1904 at Cherokee, Ia. 7. Flora Marguerite Dewer, born July 5, 1906 at Cherokee. 8. Themas George Dewer, born Jan. 25, 1908, at Chero­ kee, Iowa. Samuel Lewis Randall, ninth child of John and Mary Jane (Russell) Randall, was born at Gratoit, Wis., June 17, 1869. 112 - RUSSELLS ON THE PRIARIE

He attended the Spring Valley school and the Warren high school. He was a natural mechanic. He spent one winter in the Wisconsin pineries. He married Elizabeth Daily of Apple River and settled in Mason Ctiy, ila., and fired for a number of years on the C. M. & St. Paul R. R., but was appointed engineer and act­ ed in that capacity. He gave it up on account of his health and went into the real estate business with Fred Hermann in Mason City, Ia., and fired for a number of years on the reunion June 24, 1916 and spent the winters of 1916 and 1917 at Los Angeles, California. Harriet Russell Dunbar, fourth child of Dr. George W. and Susan (Bear) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., Mar. 16, 1832 and moved to Milan with her parents in 1840. From thence to Gratiot, Wis., in 1857 and settled on a prairie farm with the family. She followed the tailor business while single. On Mar. 27, 1858, she was married to Samuel Bow­ den Dunbar, a carpenter by trade. He was born at Chautau­ qua, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1817 and settled on his fa1·m at D.inbar­ ton, Wis., where the town was afterward located. He then purchased 160 acres on the west to add to his farm. He always taught the Bible class at Kingsley Sunday school. He was strictly temperate and required othe1·s to be that purchased town lots of him under forfeiture of title. Children of Samuel B. and Harriet (Russell) Dunbar 1. Mary Jane Dunbar, bor:.1 Aug. 21, 1860. Died Mar. 16, 1864. 2. Emma Jane Dunbar Hicks, was born May 10, 1865. 3. Ella Susan Dunbar Smith, was born at Dunbarton, Dec. 4., 1867. 4. Addie Angeline Dunbar Dobler, born at Dunbarton. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 113

Samuel B. Dunbar died at Dunbarton, Jan. 2, 1891, aged 74 years. Harriet (Russell) Dunbar died June 25, 1905, aged 73. Emma Jane Dunbar Hicks, second child of Samuel B. and Harriet (Russell) Dunbar, was born at Dunbarton, Wis., May 10, 1865 and was a school teacher while single. She married William J. Hicks, Oct. 16, 1890 and received 160 acres of good land as a wedding present from her par­ ents. Mr. Hicks has since purchased 80 acres of the Law farm, 80 acres of the Dull and 120 acres of John McCay, making in all 480 acres of fine farming land. He purchased the grain warehouse in Dunbarton in 1909 and handles all kinds of farm produce.

Children of William J. and Emma J. (Dunbar) Hicks 1. Harriet Hellen, born Oct. 8, 1895. Died Mar. 3, 1898. 2. Mary Leone Hicks, born June 14, 1897, near Dunbarton. 3. Gertrude Hicks, born Dec. 16, - 1899 near Dunbarton. 4. Charles Samuel Hicks, born Aug. 11, 1900 near Dun­ barton, Wis. 5. Frances Adell Hicks, born Sept. 28, 1902 and died Mar. 17, 1903. 6. Emma Adelle Hicks, was born Apr. 12, 1904. Died April 20, 1904. 7. William Shirley Hicks, born Dec. 19, 1906 near Dun­ barton, Wis. 8. Florence Irene Hicks, born May 22, 1910 near Dun­ barton, Wis. Mary Leone Hicks Teasdale, second child of William J. and Emma J. (Dunbar) Hicks, born near Dunbarton, Wis., June 14, 1897 and graduated at the Kingsley school, April 24, 1912 at the age of fifteen years. She 1s making vocal music a specialty. 114 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

She married Irvin Teasdale of Shullsburg, Wis., at the home of her parents in Gratiot, Wis., and in the midst of her many friends to the number of ninety.

When the clock chimed seven, Miss Bessie Clay touched the keys of the piano, the bridal party appeared and slowly but gracefully took their place under the white arch, trim­ med with smilax and roses while Rev. George B. Haskell of Shullsburg, pronounced the ring ceremony. Gertrude Hicks, third child of William J. and Emma J. (Dunbar) Hicks, was born near Dunbarton, Wis., Dec. 16, 1899. She attended the Kingsley school and graduated June 1916 and is now, ( 1917) in her second year attending a col­ legiate institute at Jackson, Mich. Charles Samuel Hicks, fourth child of William J. and Emma J. Hicks, born near D:inb~rton, Wis., Aug. 11, 1900 and named after his two grandfathers. He attended the Kingsley school and graduated in June, 1916. Emma Ade11 Hicks, sixth child of William J. and Emma J. (Dunbar) Hicks, was born near Dunbarton, Apr. 12, 1904. Died A pr. 20, 1904. William Shirley Hicks, seventh child of William J. and Emma J. (Dunbar) Hicks, was born near Dunbarton, Wis., Dec. 19, 1906 and attended school at Kingsley. Florence Irene, eighth child of William J. and Emma J. (Dunbar) Hicks, was born near Dunbarton, May 22, 1910 and attends the Kingsley school. Ella Susan Dunbar Smith, third child of Samuel B. and Harriet (Russell) Dunbar, was born at Dunbarton, Wis., Dec. 4, 1867 on a farm and attended the Pleasant Valley and Warren high schools. She spent one winter in the southern states. She married Feb. 12, 1896, William H. Smith, born Mar. 16 ,1871, a son of Henry Smith of Monti­ cello, Wis. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 115

In 1905 they rented their farm and moved to Colorado for her health and she was so benefitted by the change that they returned to Warren, Ill. In 1910, they purchased the old fair ground and put up a very nice residence. At present, he is one of the school board, an Alderman and an Odd Fellow. They belong to the M. E. Church.

Children of William H. and Ella (Dunbar) Smith 1. Oliver Russell Smith, born Mar. 10, 1897. 2. Dortha Lucille Smith, born Jan. 9, 1909. Oliver Russell Smith, oldest child of William H. and Ella (Dunbar) Smith, was born at Dunbarton, Mar. 10, 1897 and went to Colorado with his parents in 1905, thence to War­ ren, Ill., 1907 and attended school. He is one of the collec­ tors in the M. E. church and graduated at the Warren high school, June, 1915. He is a proficient clerk in a large cloth­ ing ho.1se in Warren, Ill. He attended the State University of Illinois in 1916 and 1917. Dortha Lucille Smith, second child of William J. and Ella (Dunbar) Smith, was born at Warren ,Ill., Jan. 9, 1909 and attends school at Warren, Ill. Addie Angeline Dunbar Dobler, fourth child of Samuel B. and Harriet (Russell) Dunbar, was born at Dunbarton, Wis., Sept. 17, 1870. She attended school at Pleasant Val­ ley and Warren high school and married Andrew Dobler, Mar. 26, 1896 and settled on a farm of 160 acres at Dunbar­ ton and detached 80 acres near by. On Feb. 20, 1906, they rented their farm and moved to Warren, Ill., purchasing a fine residence on Tisdel avenue. He was born on a farm near Warren, Sept. 9, 1867. He at­ t3nd~d the district and Warren high schools. He purchased 80 acres three miles east of Warren. He is one of the trus­ tees of the National Farmers Bank of Warren. 116 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

Clu.1dren of Andrew and Addie (Dunbar) Dobler 1. Ralph Reginald Dobler, born Jan. 7, 1904. Died Mar. 1, 1907. 2. Eleanor Marguerite Dobler, born Oct. 28, 1905. 3. Lloyd Harold Dobler, born Nov. 24, 1907. 4. Dortha Dobler, born Aug. 31, 1909. 5. Daisie Marie Dobler, born at Warren, 1912. Eleanor Marguerite Dobler, second child of Andrew and Addie A. (Dunbar) Dobler, was born at Dunbarton, Wis., Oct. 28, 1905. Was moved to Warren the next year and attends school at Warren, Ill. Lloyd Harold Dobler, third child of Andrew and Addie A. (Dunbar) Dobler, was born at Warren, Ill., Nov. 24, 1907 and attends the Warren publc school. Dorothy Dobler, fourth child of Andrew and Addie A. (Dunbar) Dobler, was born at Warren, Ill., Aug. 31, 1909. Daisie Marie Dobler, fifth child of Andrew and Addie A. (Dunbar) Dobler, was born November, 1912 at Wa!"ren. ANGELINE RUSSELL TUTTLE

CHAPTER VII

Angeline Russell Tuttle, fifth child of George W. and Susan (Bear) Russell, was born at Windham, Pa., June 13, 1833 and moved to Ulster, Pa., with the family in 1840 and attend­ ed school and taught the Gibson school at Ulster several years. She married William Wilson Tuttle of Ulster, Pa., Nov. 25, 1856. They wintered on the Gibson farm in Ulster and emigrated to Wisconsin in the spring of 1857. He was born at Orangeville, N. J., ·Feb. 1, 1832. They in company with Read and Sarah Russell drove two teams through from Mi­ lan, Pa., to Gratiot, Wis., via Cleveland, Ohio. There they took a boat to Detroit, thence by rail to Chicago, then drove to Gratjot, Wis., making the whole trip in 23 days. He broke a small portion of land on the 80 in the first year and the next spring he traded his house for a yoke of oxen and built a house and commenced farming with one yoke of oxen. In two or three years he fenced the whole 80 and turned the old stage road out of its old course, which caused con­ siderable complaining among the wood haulers as there were as many as 30 to 50 loads pass some days to Shullsburg. In 1862 he p:irchased 80 acres on west of her 80, in 1866 he added 40 acres more to his farm; in 1876 he added 40 a:!res more to his farm and about the same time he purchas­ ed the lime kiln farm on Wolff Creek of 120 acres for pas­ ture, making him 360 acres in all. William was a very public spirited citizen and a worker in church and school. In 1871 he made a great move and was the main pillar in bailding Kingsley chapel, the M. E. church in his neighbor­ hood. 118 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

In the fall of 1888 he was taken sick with heart failure and died the next spring. Angeline, his wife, and her son Ernest, remained on the farm and worked it the fo]owing summer and left it in the fall and went to Sterling, Ill. They lived with Ella Hamilton, (her daughter) until 1891. She moved to Salina, Kas., with her two boys, Dr. Edwin R. and Ernest V. Chlldren of Wi.lliam Wilson and Angerne (Russell) Tutt!e 1. W"'iliiam Lewis Tuttle, born at Gratiot, Wis., May 15, 1858. Died Oct. 8, 1861. 2. Ella Susan (Tuttle) Hamlton, born at Gratiot, Wis., Nov. 6, 1861. 3. Edwin Russell Tuttle, born at Gratiot, Wis., Oct. 31, 1853. 4. Ernest Vansickle Tuttle, born at Gratiot, Wis., Oct. 2S, 1871. William Wilson Tuttle died of heart failure, May 9, 188~. Angeline (Russell) Tuttle died at Salina, May 6, 1901. Funeral at Lewis C. R:issell's house, Warren, Ill. Interment in Elmwood cemetery, Warren, Ill. Ella Susan Tuttle Hamilton, second child of William W. and Angeline (Russell) Tuttle, was born at Grt..1.tiot, Wis, Nov. 6, 1831 and a~tended the district school and the Beloit College. She taught several terms of sc~1ool, was a sup2rintend~nt of the Kingsley Sunday school for three years and delighted in doing any kind of church work. She married Rev. James R. Hamilton, June 13, 1889 and settled on his c~arge at Sterling, Ill. He was a son of Robert and Janet Hamilton of Scotch extraction. Was born at Co-ancil Hill, Ill., Nov. 9, 1856, his parents having arrived from Scotland a fe·N months previous, from thence to Argyle. I-Ie clerked in a store, went to school and taught school. In 1879 he attend­ ed the Normal at Platteville, Wis. He n1et his wife Eila RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 119 while teaching school in the Russell district four miles west of Darlington in 1881. In September, 1881, entered the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. and graduated at that College, June, 1890, with the degree of Bachelor of P'l1ilosophy and from Garret Biblical Institute in 1891. He spent his first summer vacation filling in for Rev. T. M. Ful­ lerton at Shullsburg, Wis. In 1886 was appointed Pastor at Morgan Park, Ill., thence to Sterling in 1888. Married June, 1889. In 1891 he was at the Centennial Church at Rockford; in 1892 was appoint­ ed to Mendota, Ill., for four years, thence to Morrison in 1896; to La Salle in 1899 and to Ashton in 1903. On account of his health he moved in November, 1907 to Oklahoma City for five years where he officiated as a supply until his health was restored. In 1912 he was appointed to East Winfield Circuit and 1916 to Hutchson, Kas. 1

Ch"Idren of James R. and Ella (Tuttle) Hamilton 1. Florence Margerita Hamilton, _born June 21, 1890 at Sterling, Ill. 2. H e1len Hamilton, born at Salina, June 23, 1891. 3. William Tuttle Hamilton, born at Mendota, Ill., Dec. 16, 1894. 4. Robert James Hamilton, born at Mendota, Mar. 18, 1893. 5. Ruth Hamilton, born at Morrison, Dec. 10, 1898 and d;e::l Mar. 20, 189~. Interred in Elmwood cemetery, Warren, Ill. Florence Margerita Hamilton Wallace, oldest child of James R. and Ella (Tuttle) Hamilton, was born at Sterling, June 21, 1890. Graduated at the high school at Oklahoma in June, 1908. Was sent by University of Oklahoma to the Students' Convention at Rochester, N. Y., in 1910. She graduated at the University of Oklahoma at Guthry, May 1912. Was teacher of German and English at the high 120 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

school at Purcel, Okla., in 1913 but had to give it up on ac­ count of her health. Th'.e double wedding of Florence Hamilton to Capt. John Hobert Wallace of Oklahoma City, Okla., and that of Hellen Hamilton to Prof. Howard Harrison Finley of St. Louis, Mo., took place at the home of the brides' parents in South Hutch­ inson, Kas., Aug. 19, 1916, with their father, Rev. James R. Hamilton, officiating. Capt. and Mrs. Wallace will make their home at Fort San Houston, San Antonia, Texas, where Capt. Wal1ace has bzen stationed whifo on the bordGr and is now waiting for orders to sail to France. Prof. Finley set­ tles in East St. Louis, 111. Capt. Wallace was born in 1890 at Oklahoma City. Grad­ uat~d at West Point in 1915 as Second Lieutenant was pro­ moted to First Lieutenant and in 1917 was promoted to Captain in the Third Field Artillery, U. S. A. Child of Capt. and Florence M. (Hamilton) Wallace Hellen Janette Wallace, born Oct. 12, 1917 at Fort San Ho".lston, Tex. She is the youngest child recorded in these annals. • HellenHamilton Finley, second child of James R. and Ella (Tuttle) Hamilton, was born at Salina, Kan., June 23. 1891 and graduated at Epworth University, Okla., in 1909 and makes music a specia".ty. She taught music one year in the musfcal institute of Oklahoma City and in the southwest­ ern College at Winfield, Kan. Child of Prof. and Hellen (Hamilton) Finley Florence Finley, oldest child of Prof. Howard and HePen (Hamilton) Finley, was born at East St. Louis, Th:irsday, May 24, 1917. William Tuttle Hamilton, third child of Rev. James R. and Ella S. (Tuttle) Hamilton, was born at Mendota, Ill., Dec. 16, 1894. He graduated at Epworth University, Okla., in 1911 and graduated also at the Southwestern College at. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 121

Winfield, Kan., in 1914. While at college he joined the home guards and when the trouble broke out between Mexico and us in 1916, he was ordered out to join the ranks at Sam Houston, Tex. In the fall of 1916 he was sent home await­ ing further orders. When the wr-.r broke out with Germany he was ordered to appear at Ft. D. A. Russell, Cheyenne, Wyo., June, 1917 where he received his commission as First Lieutenant of the 25th Cavalry, Regular Army. After be­ ing in training four months, he so well distinguished him­ se!f that he was promoted to Captain of his compa:ay and was ordered to Fort Sill, Okla., to take training in Artillery Drill for a season. He expects to be ordered to France in January, 1918. Robert James Hamilton, fourth child of James R. and Ella S. (Tuttle) Hamilton, was born at Mendota, Mar. 18, 1896. Finished the grade school at Oklahoma in 1912 ar..d thence to the Southwestern College at Winfield, Kan., where he graduated June, 1915. After coming home he accepted a position in Mr. W. E. Huss & Company office of architecture Hutchison, Kas., and is making fine progress in that occupation. Dr. Edwin Russell Tuttle, third child of William W. and Angeline (Russel!) Tuttle, was born at Gr!ltiot, Wis., Oct. 31, 1863. He attended the district school and in company with George A. Russell, rented his father's farm for the year of 1883. He a,so attended the University at Evans­ ton one year and then opened up a general store at Dun­ barton, Wis. Aft~r running the store for two years, he sold it out and attended the Hahncmann Medic:11 College at Chicago, Ill., and graduated Feb. 16, 1888. He settled in Schapsville, Ill., as a physician for one yenr, thence to Sa­ lina, Kan., and went into the general practice of medicine for several years. In 1898 he took up the special treatment of the eye, nose and ear. In 1901, after his brother Ernest's death, he pro­ cured Ernest's laundry in Salina and also the assist:lnce of 122 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

Edward and Josephine Russell to oversee and manage the laundry business for a few years and closed it out in 1908 and put his attention to Real Estate. He moved to Miami, Florida, where he continued his practice of eye, ear and nose diseases. On Apr. 30, 1895, he married Effie Whitehead, daughter of Daniel and Charlotte (Crowther) Whitehead of Salina, Kan. She was born at Jacksonville, Ill., Dec. 19, 1869. Children of Dr. Edwin R. and Effie (Whitehead) Tuttle 1. Elsie, born at Salina, Mar. 3, 1896. 2. Elmer Leslie Tuttle, born Sept. 17, 1897. Died at Kan- sas City, July 27, 1900. 3. Ernest, born at Salina, Feb. 1, 1903. Postoffice address, Miami, Florida. Ernest Vansickle Tuttle ,fourth child of Williarn W. and Angeline (Russell) Tuttle, was born at Gr=i.t:ot, Wis., Oct. 26, 1871. Attended the public school and the year he was eighteen he managed his mothe~'s farm of 360 acres. In 1891 he went to Salina, Kan., with his mother and attended the Salina College and graduated there June 14, 1894. Was at the World's Fair in Chicago three weeks in 1893. After g.raduating he went into the laundry business and was very successful, working from 10 to 15 hands. He was a thirty-second degree Mason when he died and was buried by the Jo Daviess Lodge, A. F. & A. M. in the Elmwood cemetery from his uncle Lewis Russell's house, Warren, Ill.

Ernest V. Tuttle died at Salina, Kansas, Sept. 18, 1901. William Lewis Tuttle, oldest child of William W. and An­ geline (Russell) Tuttle, was born at Gratiot, Wis., May 15, 1858 and was a very bright and affectionate child. He died with the diphtheria, Oct. 8, 1861. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 123

Amanda (Russell) West, sixth child of George W. and Su­ san (Bear) R·1ssell, was born at Windham, Pa., Sept. 28, 1834. Was removed to Milan on a farm in 1840 and attend­ ed the Mi!an Distrfot school and taught school at Balsam Swamp in 1853. Married George C. West of Laurel Hill, Smi4·hfie!d, Pa. Apr. 7 1854. He was born at Norfolk Eng­ land, Mar. 17, 1825. Was a son of George and Abagail ( Corneby) West. They settled on the same farm with his parents and lived in the same house until their death. He carried on quite a dairy and made a specialty of apples and peaches. During the civil war he was drafted but was exempt on acco:int of disability. He attended the World's Fanr in Chicago and then visited her brothers and sisters in Illinois and Wisconsin and was perfectly captivated by the wes~ern me~hod of farming. · He died at his home in Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1909. Amanda died at her home Saturday, Nov. 28, 1914. Children of George Corneby and Amanda (Russell) West 1. Fountain Russell West, was born Jan. 8, 1855. 2. Alice Abigail West Childs, was born Jan. 30, 1857. 3. Charles Christopher, was born Nov. 18, 1868. Fountain R·"/ssell West, oldest child of George C. and Amanda (Russell) West, was born at Smithfield, Jan. 8, 1855 on t1:te farm. Attended the Balsam Swamp school and graduated at the Binghamton Commercial College in 1873. Was a schoo1 teacher. He came west to Wisconsin in 1877 and spent the summer with his relatives and visited his mother's land near Clear Lake, Ia., and returned home in the fall. He married Laura Loomis of Smithfie~d in 1882. She died Sept. 19, 1903. In 1913 he took the mercantile appraisal for Bradford Co., Pennsylvania. 124 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

In 1914 he went into a Creamery Co-operative Company at Smithfield, where they made over 1,200 pounds of b--.itter a day.He purchased his father's o!d farm on Laurel Hill. He was President of the Laurel Hill Grange. He purchased the old George Manere farm at the head of Ulster Narrows for a Club house. Alice Abigail West Schoonmaker Childs, second child of George C. and Amanda (Russell) West, was born at Smith­ field, Pa., Jan. 30, 1857 on a farm. Attended school at Bal­ sam Swamp and graduated in church music at Elmira, 1873. Played in the Baptist church for many years at Smithfield. She married Dr. Irvin Schonmaker, July 1878 and settled in Sayre.

Children of Irvin and AEce A. (West) Schonmaker 1. Maud Gertrude Schonmaker, born Jan .22, 1880. Alice married ( 2) Charles Childs of West Sayer, Pa., where he is operating a large grocery store. They ·were o:d acquaintances and friends when young. She att2nd~d t~1e Russell reunion at Warren, June 16, 1915. -Maud Gertrude Schonmaker Huff, only child of Irvin and Alice (West) Schonmaker, was born at Ulster, Pa., Jan. 22, 1880 and attended public school in Ulster. :Moved to Sayer in 1890 and attended high school and graduated in 1898 and took a post graduate course the fo]owing year. She grad:i­ ated in music and drawing at the Normal schocl at Pots­ dam, N. Y. in 1903 and organized a mus:c course in the Ath­ ens high school in 1904. She married Hampton Huff, Aug. 30, 1904, a son of Henry and Mary Huff of Milan, Pa., and settled in Athens, he being it the postoffice at that place. Charles Christopher West, third child of George and Amanda (Russell) West, was born at Smithfield, Pa., on a farm, Nov. 18, 1868 and attended the Balsam Swamp sc~1ool and Smithfield high school. Was a teacher for many years. RUSSELLS ON THK PRAIRIE Ifil>-

ffe· wa""S at the- Chicago. World's- Fair irr 1892' and· made, (!Uite' an· extensive· visit among his., cnuntry cousins_ in. west­ ern Illinois- and~ Wisconsin. After· h-e .i:etured· home he· soon entered· into~ the~ empioy of~ tine' Lehigh: Va-Iley· freight: office. Was· freight agent for sev­ eral years: Aoout 18.9"6 lie resigned~ that p-osition to- accept: one· a-s Secreuu·y irr the· Sayer Land· and· Loan Association,. which position ne' lia-s: faithfully filled~ ever since.. He· mar­ ried·. Anna Satterly Anger of Sayer, June 18, 1895~ She· grad·uated at the College· at Elmira, N. Y., in 1895; He is; P.resident of" the Brass Metai Manufacturing· Company at: Waverly, N. Y. He owns· quite· a number of residences in: tlie city of.· Sayer tro1n: which he receives a· nice revenue. Children of Cliarles· Cliristoplier and Ann S. (Anger):' West L Georg~ Malcom·e· West, oorn J"uly 23', 1899: 2: Emaly .Amanda· West, born at Sayer, _.Aug: !6~ I9U2: 3. Charlotte Eleanor, was born Apr. 9, 1911. George Malcom·e West, oldest child. of Charles C: and· An­ nie· (Anger) West, was borrr at Saorer, Pa:., July 23, 1899. He ·attended. the high s.chool. and~ makes a specialty of raising· poultry. He graduated at the high school and· was President of the· graduating class, which graduated in June, 1917. He start­ ed immediately on a Chautauqua lecture· course ana then entered college near Philadelphia. Emaly West, second child of Charles C. and· .Annie- ( An­ ger) West, borrr at Sa-yer, Aug: 16, 1902· and attends school at Sayer, Pa. Charlotte Eleanor West, third child of Charles C. and Annie (Anger) West, was oorrr at Sayer, Apr. 9, 1911 and· attends school. Louisa Maria R-.is~IT Wright, seventh child of George W. and Sus.an (Bear) Russ.ell, was born at Windham, Pa., NoY.. 126 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

r;_ 1837. Was moved to Milan, Pa., in 1810, went to school and h3.d the scarlet fever, from which she never fully recov­ ered until she moved to Wisconsin in the spring of 1857. She then went to teaching school in the village of Gratiot, Wis., the next summer she taught in the Matson district. Next at the Lighthouse, then married Moses Shaw Wright, Nov. 16, 1859 and they setled on a farm in Shullsburg, Wis. Mr. Wright was born in Maryland, Jan. 10, 1829 and worked in a woolen mill until 1852, then bridge b:1i!ding for the rail­ road for two years, thence to Madison, Wis., and followed the carpenter trade for three years. He then went to Sack City, Wis., where he built a saw mill. In 1860 he purchased a piece of 120 acres of prairie land and moved on to it. In 1875 he purchased 120 acres ad­ joining the Alex More farm for pasture. About 1880 he made another addition to his farm by purchasing the John More farm of 160 acres on the west side, making 440 acres in his farm. In 1874 he built a fine brick residence on his farm and improved his home with other good farm buildings. He had no time to dapp1e in politics but put in his leisure time in fixing up a good home. .He always voted the Republican ticket. He had the name of being one of the best farmers in his community. He had a great amount of energy_ Children of Moses Shaw and Louisa M. (Russell) Wright 1. Oscar L. Wright, born at Shullsburg on a farm, Jan. 26, 1863. 2. Emma L. Wright, born ~t Shullsburg, May 9, 1865. He died with heart failure at Dunb!l.rton, \Vis., March 2, 1903. Louisa M. had a stroke and died at Warren, Ill., Nov. 24, 1912 Oscar L. Wright, oldest chEd of M. Shaw and .Louisa M. (Russell) Wright, was born at S~1ullsburg, Jan. 26, 1853 and attended district and high school at Darlington. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 127

He married Jenny M. Farren, a daughter of John and Mary Farr2n of D-:inbarton, Wis., Oct. 24, 1893. They took in the W or1d's Fair d ·1r;ng their honeymoon and then settled on the farm with his father. Af... er his father's death he bought out his sister's inter­ est and held the whole 440 acre farm which he now owns an:l has added to it 120 acres. Osc'l.r, of late years, has rented his land and takes life more easy than he did years ago. He owns an automobile so as to enjoy life to its fullest extent. He is a member of the Mason:c Lodge at Shullsb".Jrg. He has l:c!d sever~l town o'-l:c 'S and fiHed the offic2 of President of the town board of Shursburg. Children of Oscar L. and Jennie M. (Farren) Wright 1. Ethel Wright, was born !!t Shul!sburg, Wis., Sept. 3, 18D4. 2. Orvil Wr~ght, born at Shullsburg, Dec. 29, 1896. Ethel Wr;ght Look, oldest child of ·Oscar L. and Jennie (Farren) Wright, was born at Shullsburg on a farm, Sept. 3. 18~4 and graduated at the district school in 1911 and also at~~nd2d the high school at Shullsburg. She married Fred Bb.ckstone !..ook on J·Jly 15, 1912. He is a banker of Shulls­ b-,rg. of German-English lineage, born June 26, 1889 at Shu:lsburg.where they now reside He has been in the bank for several years. Orvil Wright, second chi!d of Oscar L. and Jennie (Far­ re:1) Wright, was born at Shulsb:irg on a farm, Dec. 29, 1896 and is att~nding the Shullsburg high school and worked on a farm th~ summer of 1915, and 1916. In 1917 he work­ ed his father's farm. Emma Mae Wright Herman, second child of M. Shaw and Lo:iisa (Russell) Wright, was born on a farm at Shullsburg, Wis., May 9, 1865. Attended the district school and was a m::?mber of th? Kingsley church. She married Fred A. Her­ man of Mason City, Ia., May 8, 1889. They lived on the RUSSELCS' 0~ THE PRAIRIE

:farm with ·her parerits two· years-, then· went to- Busciii~:. Ia., and· opened· up a· general" store which lie? carried· on for.· several years anff from thence~ to~ Ma:son. Clty;. a£out 19·00: About 1905· they purchased· a· ·pie~e~ of land· consisting· ot· :four hundred· acres, four miles. east of: O\v.ens.. GroN~; Ia~, tliat they rent and. keep cattle· on. He in company with Samuei Randa.Ir is running- a- Reaf. ' . Estate and· Brokers' office in· Ma-son City; d~aiing· in· Dal<:ota;. and Texas lands. Fred and· Emma- ( Wright.) Herman: have~ one son by the· name of Harry Wright _Hermarr, born at.B"ur-; chinal, Ia., June 6, 1894~. Emma. and: H~:r.y attended~ the~ Russell reunion irr 1915. Harry attended· the· high scho·of a-t Ma-so"D:· City- and· gi:a·d~:­ ated there and then went to· Iowa· City· and·. attended: College! at that place· while liis- motlier kept liouse for him. Harry W~ Herman· ma:rried~ about Ma,y;. 1915-· and~ s:ettled: near Davenport, Thwa-.. Read· Russell, eighth child. of. Georg~ W. and· Susan· (B~ar)~ Russell, was oorn· in Windham, Pa., Apr. 4, I83"9: Was· .re~­ moved t

In the spring of 1860 he attended the Warren Seminary, taking a normal course. He married Sarah V. Schellenger, daughter of Rev. George and Beulah Schellenger of Wiota, Wis., on May 22, 1861

Mr. and Mrs. Schellenger were old settlers. He, a veter­ an of the Blackhawk war, was in the Fort at Mineral Point, Wis., while she was in the Fort at Gratiot Grove. She taught school long before the Black Hawk war, in fact she was the first school teacher in the state of Wisconsin at Gratiot Grove, commencing June 1829 while Rev. R. T. Cod­ dle of the Protestant Episcopal church opened a school at Shanty Town, near Green Bay in September the same year. In the spring of 1861 he settled on his fat!1er's fa~m to work it and break his own forty acre~ t:1at his father entered for him while he was working on the canal in Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1862 he moved into his father's house where Dr. Charles H. was born. The next spring he moved on his own farm which he sold to W. W. Tuttle in 1867 and pur­ chased 80 acres of William Wilson near the Rock church, which he sold in 1874 to Mr. Yaw and purchased the Richard­ son farm of two hund1 ed and thirty acres, one of the best farms in the town of Gratiot and lived on it many years un­ til his hea~th failed in 1905. He then rented it to his son Edward and moved into his new house on West Main street, Warren, Ill. He and his wife Sarah and their daughter Florence, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Neff, went to the Portland Exposition and on the same trip visited their son Dr. C. H. R1.1ssell at Pullman, Wash. and relatives in Colcrado and Cherokee, Ia. He died at his home Oct. 18, 1910, after a long and severe illness and was h:iried by the Masonic and Odd Fe,low fratzrnities in the Elmwood ceme­ tery, Warren, Ill.

Sarah and th ~ir daughter Florence, made an extended visit of nearly a year through Iowa, Colorado, Washington and California about the year of 1911, visiting relatives. His wife, Sarah Virg1nia, was born at Wiota, Apr. 18, 1844. 130 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

Children of Reed and Sarah V. (Schellenger) Russell 1. Charles Henry Russell, was born Dec. 21, 1862. 2. Mary Susan Russell Chapman, born Oct. 27, 1864. 3. Lucy Laurine Russell Chapman, born Ma~1 10, 1867. 4. William Richard Russell, born May 13, 1869 5. Walter Read Russell, born Jan. 1, 1872. 6. Edwin Lewis Russell, born Dec. 3, 1876. 7. Florence Edna Russell, born Sept. 8, 1886. Dr. Charles Henry Russell, oldest child of Read and Sarah V. (Schellenger) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Wis , Sunday Dec. 21, 1862. In 1867 he was removed to a farm near the Rock Church and attended school. In 1874 he was removed to the Richardson farm and attended the Spring Valley school and Warren high school, where he graduated June 12, 1885 After becoming of age he worked and earned money enough to put him through Medical College and graduated at Keokuk, la., 1888. He then went into Dr. Gratiot's office and practiced with him and in 1889 he opened up an office in Darlington and got a very large practice until he moved west. In Dec. 17, 1890, he married Anna Rose, daughter of Hon. James Rose of Darlington,. Wis. In 1902 he sold out his office and practice and moved to Pullman, Wash., opened up an office and built him a very nice residence and soon got a fine practice. On account of the high altitude his wife had to leave the mountain and moved down on the coast to Bil­ lingham and from thence to San Diego, Cal., while he re­ mained at Pullman to dispose of his property at that place. Ch:ldren of Charles H. and Anna (Rose) Russell 1. Phoebe Rose Russell, was born May 23, 1893. 2. Charles Read Russell, was born November, 1895. 3. Clarra Russell, was born Mar. 14, 1902 ... RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 131

Pho~be Rose Russell, oldest child of Dr. Charles H. and Anna (Rose) Russell, was born at Darlington, Wis., May 23, 1893. Went to Pullman in 1902 with her parents and at­ tended sc!1ool there. She became very proficient in and t,.--gh"" music. She married Robert Birdsall at San Diego, Cal., Cct. 7, 1915 and settled at that place. Char!es Read Russell, second child of Charles H. and Anna

Myrtle Leone Chapman, oldest child of Horace and Mary (Russell) Chapman, was born at South Wayne, Wis., July 19, 1891. Moved to Warren in 1906 with her parents and attended and graduated at the Warren high school, June 1912. She clerked in the postoffice one year and went ba~k on the farm with the family in 1914 and married at South Wayne, Sept. 25, 1915, DeWitt Stewart, a son of Robert Stewart of South Wayne and settled on his mother's farm in that place and is making good at farming. John Russell Chapman, second child of Horace and Mary (Russell) Chapman, was born on a farm in South Wayne, June 8, 1896 and was moved to Warren, Ill., with his parents in 1906 and attended school at that place. He was continu­ ously longing for the old farm and finally prevai:ed on his parents to move back where he could enjoy himself a-tilling the soil as in days of yore and in order to b3 a proficient farmer, he attended the Ag1"ic-.i :tural Coilege at Mal~ison, Wis., where he graduated Mar. 1916 and is now carrying on his father's farm with intelligence and profit. Horace Marion Chapman, third child of Horace and Mary (Russell) Chapman, was born at South \Vayne, Mar. lS, 1902. Was moved to Warren, Ill., with the fa1 ..1ily in 19J6 and attended the Wa,rren school. Returned to the farm again in 1914. Virginia Chapman, fourth child of Horace and Ma1·y (R·1s­ sell) Chapman, was born on the farm in South Wayne, June 18, 1904 and moved to Warren with the family when a chi· d. Attended the Warren school and returned to the farm in 1914 with the family. Lucy Laurine Russell Chapman, thfrd child of Read anrl Sarah V. (Schelfonger) Russell, was born at Gratiot, Ma.11'- 10, 1867. Attended school at the Chapman and Spring Va.­ ley school districts and the Warren high schoo1 and gradu­ ated at Warren, June 15, 1888 and want to tea~hing school. On Dec. 25, 1889, she married Frederrck C~1apman~ born July 19, 1868, at So:ith Wayne. He attendtd school at RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 133

South ,vayne and the Warren high school. He was a son of John Chapman of South Wayne. They settled on that place on the same farm he was born on. He also owns a large tract of land in northern Wisconsin. After several years of hard work, he, too, had to quit farm­ ing and so rented his farm and moved to Warren in 1908 and p 1rchased a nic~ residenc~, also an automobile and will take life easy until he regains his health. He and his wife Lucy, started on a western trip in July, 1 !ll 7, to vis~t his brother Charles Chapman at Dillon, Mont. They were gone nine weeks, spendjng part of the time in a 530 mile auto trip through the Yellowstone Park, seeing t.he beauties of nature in the Rockies and also visiting the Virginia mines which turned out a great amount of gold each w2ek. At the end of the ninth week they were willing to come home thinking Illinois was a Paradise on earth. Dr. William R;chard Russell, fourth child of Read and Sarah V. (Sc11ellenger). Russell, was born at Gr!!tiot, Wis., on a farm, May 13, 1859 and ai;tended Spring Valley and VT:lrren high school and graduated at the Chicago Dental Co1lege, Apr. 16, 1895. He married Anna Fiddick in 1895 and settled in Stockton the same year and opened a dental office in· the Eade block. As soon as hjs practice wo"'..lld justify the expense he built an office in a business portion of the city on the ground floor. They ar~ both great temperance and Church workers. He has his office furnished with all the latest improve­ ments in dentistry and is doing a flourishing business.

Children of William R. and Anna (Fiddick) Russell 1. Marguerite Russell, was born in Stockto:1, May 28, 1897. Attended school in Stockton and grad"'..l~tcd at the High sc~ool, June, 1915 and also studied music and is now, ( 1917) attending College in Eastern Illinois. Walter Read Russell, fifth child of Re~d and Sarah V. 134 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

(Schellenger) Russell, was born in Gratiot, Wis., Jan. 1, 1872 on a farm and attended school at the Spring Valley and Warren high school and was always troubled with his heart. He went to bed one night apparently well and had an attack some time in the night, which proved fatal. He died July 1, 1897, while alone in bed. Edwin Lewis Russell, sixth child of Read and Sarah V. (Schellenger) Russell, was born in Gratiot, Wis., on a farm, Dec. 3, 1876 and attended the Spring Valley and Warren High school. He married Mar. 21, 1900, Emma Leone Vick, born Feb. 16, 1880, a daughter of Charles Vick of Warren, Ill. They settled on his father's farm that he was born on. In 1902 he took a trip through the Rockey Mountains, sp2nding sev­ eral 1nonths with his brother, Dr. C. H. Russell at Pullman, Wash., and returned the next spring to his father's farm that he has worked ever since. In 1906 he went to Kansas, where he purchased 160 acres of land on speculation. In the fall of 1915 he went to York State to look at some of their abandoned farms, and fo:ind so many nice looking farms and so cheap, th~t he returned home satisfied to remain in a country where everybody wanted to- buy and at an exhorbitant price, instead of wanting to leave the farm. He makes a specialty of raising hogs, sheep and potatoes. Children of Edwin L. and Emma (Vick) Russell· 1. Clifford Edwin Russell, born at Gratiot, Wis., June 1, 1901. 2. Gamet Lucile Russell, born at Gratiot, Wis., Feb. 20, 1904. 3. Lyman James Russell, born Aug. 9, 1907.

~ He belongs to the Masonic and Odd Fellow orders. Florence Edna Russell, seventh child of Read and Sarah V. (Schellenger) Russe!!, was born in Gratiot on a farm RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 135

Sept. 8, 1886 and attended the Spring Valley and Warren high school and graduated at Warren, June 1906 and took a co:irse at the school of Domestic Science at Springfie1d, in 1908. On r'.cco"..lnt of the poor health of her parents, she has al­ ways remained at home with them. In 1905 she accompa­ nied her parents to the Portland, Ore. Exposition and visited fr~ends and relatives in Dakota, Portland, Denver, and Meri­ den, Iowa. In October, 1911, she accompanied her mother to the far west, visiting friends in BiIJingham, San Francisco, North Yakima, Long Beach, Los Angeles and other places of inter­ est and spent nearly a whole year visiting and taking in the sights. She was married to Raymond G. Burmeister, Saturday, June 9, 1 )17. He is the first child of Fred and Ida Burmeis­ ter of W arr~n, Ill. They were married midst the circle of her most intimate friends and remain at home to care for her mother for the present. He is a . plu1nber and painter by trade, born and always lived in Warren, Ill. Sarah Catherine Russell Munson, ninth child of George W. and Susan (Bear) Russell, was born at Milan, Pa., Nov. 4, 1841 on a farm and before she was old enough to go to schcol she began her missionary work by pulling her young­ er brother out of the ri-·er when he fell in water far over his he':ld. The other child_·en were too frightened to lend a r.e1 ping hand. She experienced religion while a mere child, perhaps ten years old, when she joined the M. E. church. Wh~n she -r.vas s1xteen years old she in company with her s1ster Ange1ine and brother Read came to Wisconsin with horse teams and wagons via Cleveland, taking boat to To­ ledo thence by rail to Chicago and driving the rest of the way, making the entire trip of 1,000 miles in 23 days. She went to Argyle in the spring of 1857 and kept house for her brothers, in the fall she came hon1e and attended school in the Matson district. · The next spring she went 136 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE to teach;ng, first in the Le·.vis district ,then in the Glend~n­ n·ng d:strict. In 1860 she attended the Normal at the War­ ren s~m:nary. She married Joel · Smith Munson, Dec. 23: 18~3, a son of Morris and l\Iaria Munson, who was born at Licken, 0., July 1, 1840 and went to farming 160 acres of land where he lived for many years. He· was also an act­ ive Methodist. In 1872 she got an addition of 40 acres left to her by her father. She is quite a horticulturist and raises !ots of flowers and garden seeds to sell and from 300 to 500 chickens of a s~2- son, while on the farm. In 1906 after hfa children all movei to Iowa he moved to Warren and b:iilt a ho~s~ near the M. E. church.

Children of Joel S. and Sarah C. (Rus3ell) Munson 1. Susan Maria M-.inson, was born Apr. 3, 1835. Died Feb. 11, 1900. 2. Lewis Sylvester Munson, was born Dec. 3, 1836. 3. Harry Munson, twin to Hub~rt, was born Apr. 22, 187.0. Died Apr. 23, 1870. 4. Hubert Munson, a twin to Harry, was born ApT. 22, 1870. Died Mar·. 9, 1872. 5. Frank Russell Munson, was born July 28, ·1871. 6. Mabel Mae Munson, was born June 11, 1877. 7. Horace Arthur Munson, was born Sept. 7, 1879. Joel S. Munson died Dec. 1, 1912 at Warren, from injuries raceived by his automobile running on to him. Susan Maria Munson Glendenning, oldest child of Joel S. and Sarah C. (Russell) Munson, was born at Gratiot, Wis., Apr. 3, 1865 on a farm and married John Glendenning of Shullsburg, Wis., a son of John M. Gbndenning and settled on a farm in Shullsb·.1rg, where he was soon taken sick with RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 137 tnbercalosis and went to the hospital where she contracted the d"sease from the scratch of a pin and died Feb. 11, 1900 and was interred at Shullsburg. John Glendenning died about 1909. They were both members of the Methodist church. Le,vis Sylvester Munson, second child of Joel S. and Sarah C (R"Jssell) Munson, was born on a farm in Gratiot, Wis., Dec. 3, 1866 and went to Iowa about 188g and settled at Meridan. On Jan. 7, 1'890, he married Alice E .Orser of that place, and accepted a position in a grist mill, where he got his· hand caug:1t in the rolls and lost three fingers some time in Decemb2r, 1892. After recovering from that he went in­ to an agric 1 ltural warehouse business and made it a perfect success. A bout 1903 he sold out his machine business and opened up a gen2ral store in Ida county at Washta, Ia., and dealt in dry goods and groceries and is doing a thriving b:1siness. Ch.ldren of Lewis S. and A!ice E. · (Orser) Munson 1. Maud M:inson, was born at Meridan, July 15, 1891. 2. Ethel Munson, was born at Meridan, Aug. 10, 1893. 3. Vinc~nt Munson, was born at Meridan, Mar. 9, 1897. 4. Paul Lewis Muson, was born at Meridan, Aug. 2, 1910. Le .vis S. and Alice are both members of the Presbyter- ian church. Maude M. Munson Prange, oldest child of Lewis S. and Alic~ (Orser) Munson, was born at Meridan, la., July 15, 1891 and attended school in Meridan. About 1903 she moved with her parents to Washta, Ia., and graduated at the High school in June, 1906. She then attended the College at Gr~nnell one year and then went into her father's store, as head clerk until her marriage with A. T. Prange, Feb. 20, 1913. He was station agent at Washta at the time but later on he accepted a position as bookkeeper for a brick and tile company of Sioux City, Iowa. 138 RUSSELLS ON THE .PRAIRIE

Children of A. T. and Maud M. Prange 1. Paul Prange, born July 18, 1915. Ethel M. Munson, second child of Lewis S. and Alice ( Or­ ser) Munson, was born at Meridan, Ia., Aug. 10, 1893 and moved to Washta, Ia,. with her parents. She graduated at the high school in June, 1909 and attended the Alberta Col­ lege at Ontario, Canada one year 1913 and 1914 and is at­ tending Morning Side College at Sioux City, Ia. Vincent M. Munson, third child of Lewis S. and Alice (Orser) Munson, was born at Meridan, Ia., Mar. 8, 1897 and moved to Washta, Ia., with her parents and graduated in the high school in 1914 and attended the 1\1:orning Side Col­ lege at Sioux City one year. Paul Lewis Munson, fourth child of Lewis S. and Alice (Orser) Munson, born at Washta, Ia., Aug. 2, 1910 and re­ mains at home. Harry Munson, a twin to Hurb~rt, child of Joel S. and Sarah (Russell) Munson, born Apr. 22, 1870. Died Apr. 23, 1870. Hurbert, a twin to Harry, born Apr. 22, 1870. Died March 9, 1872. Frank Russell Munson, fifth child of Joel S. and Sarah (Russell) Munson, was born at Gratiot, Wis., July 28, 1871. Attended the Kingsley school and moved to Meridan, Ia., in 1892 to grow up with the country. For a few years he lived on rented farms. In 1897 he mar­ ried Lizzie Lamont, formerly of Apple River, Ill., and pur­ chased 80 acres at $100 an acre near Meridan, Ia. The farm doubled in price in one short decade. Chjldren of Frank R. and Lizzie (Lamont) Munson 1. Lewis Lamont Munson, born May 21, 1901. 2. Gladys Maria Munson, born June 30, 1905. Died Feb. 4, 1806. 3. Irene Mae Munson, born Apr. 16, 1906. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 139

On March, 1915, he rented his farm and moved to Meri­ dan and went into an implement business and blacksmithing, and is carrying on a large machine sale room. Lewis Lamont Munson, oldest child of Frank and Lizzie (Lamont) Munson, was born at Meridan, la., May 21, 1901. He attends the Meridan school. Irene Mae Munson, third child of Frank R. and Lizzie (Lamont) Munson, was born at Meridan, Ia., Apr. 16, 1906 and is attending the district school in Meridan. Mabel Mary Munson More, sixth child of Joel S. and Sarah ·c. (R:isse11) Munson, was born in Gratiot, Wis., June 11, 1877. Attended Kingsley school and married William I-Ienry More, Dec. 25, 1900 and settled on her father's farm for two years. From thence to Meridan, Ia., and rented farms at that place for twelve years and from thence in 1914 to Alpena, S. D., onto a farm at that place. He makes corn raising and hog feeding a specialty. Ch. ldren of William H. and Mabel M. (Munson) More 1. Arthur Munson More, was born at- Gratiot, Wis., Oct. 28, 1901. 2. George Earl More, was born May 20, 1903. 3. Susan Ella More, was born Apr. 16, 1905. 4. Frank James More, was born Nov. 16, 1907. 5. G!adys Viola More, was born July 2, 1910. Foar of these children were taken in the Methodist church jn the spring of 1915. Mr. More was superintendent of the Kingsl~y S:~nday school for two years. Arth·1r 1\1:unson More, oldest child of William H. and Ma­ bel (Munson) More, was born at Gratiot, Wis., Oct. 28, 1901. Was moved to Meridan with his parents in 1902, thence to Alpena in 1914 and remains at home with his parents and takes quite an interest in raising corn. George Earl More, second child of William H .and Mabel (Munson) More, was born at Meridan, Ia., May 20, 1903 and was removed to Alpena, S. D., in the spring of 1914 and re­ n1a:ns at home on the farm. 140 RUSSELLS ON· THE PRAIRIE

Susan Ella More; third child of William H. and Mabel (Munson) More, was born at Meridan, Apr. 16, 1905. Moved to Alpena, S. D., in 1914 and lives at home. Frank James More, fourth child of William H. and Mabel (Munson) More, was born at Meridan, Ia., Nov. 16, 1907 and moved to Alpena in 1914. Gladys Viola More, fifth child of William H. and Mabel (Munson) More, was born July 2, 1910 and was moved to Alpena, S. D., in 1914 with her parents. Horace Arthur Munson, seventh child of Joel S. and Sa­ rah (Russell) Munson, was born on a farm in Gratiot, Wis., Sept. 7, 1879. He attended the Kingsley school. In Oct. 10, 1900, he married Anna Jane Rogers, a daugh­ ter of Mrs. D. E. Dull of Pleasant Valley and settled at Meridan, Ia., for two years assisting his brother Lewis in his warehouse, and from thence in 1902 to South Dakota, and rented a farm a year then farther on to Alpena, where he purchased a large tract of land and broke up and im­ proved it and kept on buying until he had about 640 acres of fine South Dakota land. In 1911 he sold part of his land and went into an agricultural warehouse and is doing a flourishing business. He yet retains part of his land. He joined the M. E. church and was Sunday school superintend­ ent at Kingsley for two years. Children of Horace A. and Anna J. (Rodgers) Munson 1. Herold Joel Munson, was born at Ramona, S. D., Oct. 18, 1902. 2. Thelma Gertrude Munson, was born at Alpena, S. D., August 16, 1904. 3. Dwight Francis Munson, was born at Alpena, S. D., Nov. 3, 1909. Died Nov. 24, 1909. In January, 1917, Horace and wife, Dr. Shull and others took a little outing in Florida and about Feb. 1, while on the coast, decided on taking a chance at fishing. After get­ ting their license, some wanted to try the common fish, but Horace said nothing but a shark for him, so he got his line, RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 141

bait, home made hook, pilot, and away they went. Taking his shark line 500 feet long, with hook baited with two and one-half pounds of fish, and carried it out in the ocean as far as he could go and threw it out as far as he could above 450 feet. The line was weighted down with a heavy piece of lead to keep it from floating ashore. He then went back and laid down in the shade and nearly went to sleep, but holding fast to the line and waited patiently for three hours when th~re came an awful pull at the line like a span of horses at the other end. Believe me, he woke up to the sit1at:on. Dr. Shull and the Captain lost no time in flying to his assisJ.anc~ and by taking advantage of every favorable wave soon landed their prize. This monster proved to be a shovel nose shark, a young one but old enough to measure 5 feet, 7 inches long and weighed 150 pounds. He saved one of his eyes for a set in a pin. His share of the expense with setting the pin, cost him $7.50, which he thinks cheap for that amount of fun he experienced. LEWIS CLARK RUSSELL CHAPTER VIII Lewis Clark Russell, writer of these memoirs, tenth child of Dr. George W. and Susan (Bear) Russell, was born at Milan, Pa., Mar. 13, 1844 on a farm, b~ing the youngest son of the youngest son of the youngest son of the yoangest son of Sergeant John Russell. He commenced going to school in Pennsylvania when the teacher asked for the num­ ber of children from each parent, as the school was kept up only in part on public money. He can remember the first County Sup~rintendent, his name was Colburn, who informed the children their time was worth two dollars a day to attend school. That was in February, 1854. He was removed to Gratiot, Wis., with his parents in May, 1857. First to Argyle, where his brothers, John and George resided, thence to western Gratiot to commence life on the prairie. As they were traveling along in front of the big white house, (as it was called), where D. R. True lived, his eyes first beheld the beauty of the prairies. His pride swelled within him and he gleefully excaimed, "If this is only God's foot stool, what will the throne be?" Only a few short years and he had the good fortune to own this same piece of property. He at once started to attend school and being a stranger, he had to match all of the boys in strength and speed. That fall his father purchased the big white house on the prairie of D. R. True for $1,000, where he resided until 1892. The first winter the house seemed rather salubrious as the upstairs was neither plastered nor partitioned and loose boards laid down for floors. It was a common occurrence to get up in the morning and shake the snow out of our pants before putting them on-but such was pioneer life on the prairie. RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 143

In March, 1858, he did his first hard day's work, dragging in wheat with an ox team. Later in life it was quite common for him to break prairie for his father with four or five yoke of oxen and a 20 inch plow. The summer of 1850 he attended the Warren Seminary with his brother Read, the Normal term in the fall, the home school the following winter. On Mar. 13, 1865, he became of age and rentzd some land of his father and commenced f~rming for himself and handling cattle. In August he wznt to Washington to purchase some Government mules for his father bat finding them mostly diseased, he· did not bring any home. In October in· company with brother Read, went to Clear Lake, Ia., to view his father's land but did not care to set­ tle on it. In December, 1865, went to Chicago to attend Eastmane's Commercial College for the winter, and when the spring work opened up he went to work for his father on the farm. In July, he made his first and last horse trade by exchang­ ing a yo-.ing span of horses for a young span of mules. In the winter of 1866 and 1857 he taught the Gratiot school, and the next fall in company with his father, went to the eas'-ern part of the state and purchased 1,100 sheep on sp~!!:ilat:on. June 4, 1869, with his father he went to west­ ern Io-.va and Nebraska and took $800 to buy Government bnd. He p -rchased 320 acres of school land for $400 in Id1. co:1nty, Ia. In November, 1870, his father, Dr. George W. Russell died, leaving him the homestead and another 80 on Sec~ion 10 and in 1872 he traded the 80 on Section 10 to George W. Russell ~nd Mr. Meloy for the Cullen farm of 1eo acr~s joining the homestead 80 on t!ie ,vest. In Oct­ ober, 1873, h~ traded the Iowa land as part payment for the D. R. True farm, ,vhich joins the homestead on the east, making 220 acres in one body. The Iowa land that he paid $400 for he trad ~d in at $1600 is now worth $25, 000. In the fall of 1874, he made a visit to the home of his boyhood and on Dec. 16, 1874, he married Maggie Murdoch 144 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE at her home in Ulster, Pa. She was a daughter of Alexan­ der and Janet (Rogers) Murdoch, born at Ulster, Pa., Nov. 13, 1853, of Scotch lineage. They settled on his half sec­ tion farm in Gratiot, Wis. He made cattle raising, feed­ ing and shipping a spec!alty, with hog~ as an auxiliary. In December, 1883, he and his wife 1\-laggie,under the preach­ ing of Rev. Christopher Cook, experienced religion and in June, 1884 were baptised and taken into the M. E. Church, and at once was appointed Trustee and has been President of that Board for 15 years. On the farm he learned by experience the need of shelter for hay and stock, so in 1882 he built a large barn and in 1884 a large shed, sufficient to hold hay enough and shelter 100 head of cattle which he had been in the habit of keeping, finding it most profitable to buy two year old steers, keep one year, fatten and sell. He went with his family to the Centennial in 1876, to the World's Fair at Chicago in· 1893, to the Pan American at Buffalo in 1901, to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and re­ peated visits to the old Keystone state. In 1889 he purchased the McGlinn farm of 140 acres, which he kept 20 years and then sold at a good profit. About the same time he sold a 40 acre piece near Warren, and a timber lot of 35 acres near Riverside, Wis., and assisted his children in their start in life. In 1891 he rented his farm and moved to Warren Jan. 2, 1892, for the purpose of sending his children to the Warren Academy where they both graduated. He never dappled b 1t little in politics, was on the town board two years in Gratiot and Alderman for 6 years in Warren, Ill., and took quite an active part in establishing the waterworks and getting them on a paying basis. He took stock in the State bank, in the National bank, and in the Steel Factory. He was director in the banks and Vice President in the Steel Factory. The banks proved a profitable investment while the factory was a total loss. On Aug. 1, 1912, after being ill about one year, in company with his wife, he went to Wilkes Barre, Pa., to be treated RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE 145 by Dr. R. Murdoch, but after three months of fruitless trial and with the assistance of the best counsel in the state and to no avail, he submitted to a very dangerous and critical op­ eration at the Homeopathic Hospital, Oct. 29. Dr. Peck of Scranton, Pa., did the surgery. Through the untiring efforts of Dr. Murdoch and the con­ stant care of his wife Maggie, he so rapidly improved that in 21 days he was able to leave the hospital and in two weeks longer went home to Warren. On Dec. 2, 1913, with his wife, he started for Los Angeles, Cal., via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake, Sacramento, San Fran­ cisco, a distance of 3100 miles. Was on the road six straight days and n:ghts and at once went direct to the coast at Long Beach for one month and visited Venice, San Pedro, took an excurs·1on on the Pacific, went to the Rose Tournament at Pasadena, vis:ted Buches Sunken Garden, the cement bridge, 1500 feet long, 38 feet wide, 150 feet high, promenaded the Millionaire Row on Orange Grove A venue, the Cawston's Ostrich Ranch of 1800 birds, visited Mt. Washington and Mt. Low, the Los Angeles Pigeon ranch of 20,000 birds, the sal~en sea, Imperial valley, 144 feet below sea level and stc-pped with Ra1 ph Russell one month at Holtville, Cal. On the 25th of March, 1914, they started home and saw the· ranchers harvesting barley and their first crops of al­ falfa hay. On crossing the Arlzona Desert they saw a real mirage, which looked as perfect as a natural grove of trees, and yet it was no less than an optical illusion, causing re­ mote objects to be seen double inverted or as reflected in the water. They arrived home Mar. 29th and immediately commenced the erection of a residence, which they moved into Oct. 16 1914. It is known as the West Side Bungalow. On Dec. 7, 1916, they went to Californ:a on their second trip to t~e Imperial Valley and enjoyed an auto ride over the mo:lntains, distance of 140 miles to San Diego and took in the closing exercises of the Panama Exposition at that 146 RUSSELLS ON THE PRAIRIE

place and returned in a few days. Owing to the inclement weather he was so much exposed that he was taken to his bed Dec. 28, with a severe attack of pneumouia and was un­ der the doctor's care for several months. Not ge~ting sat­ isfactory gains in the Valley, he went to the Pacific coast as soon as he was able to ride on the cars. The sea breeze proved so beneficial that they were able to return in three or four weeks to Holtville and while resting up they visited what was said to be the largest Ostrich Ranch in the world, ccnsisting of 2,440 birds. The Haro~d Bell Wright's beautiful ranch is six miles west of Holtville, Collexico and Mexicalli on the border. They started home Apr. 22, via the Southern Pacific, when the Mexican excitement ran high along the border. Children of Lewis C. and Maggie (l\furdoch) Russell 1. Susan Janet ;Russell, born Jan. 25, 1876 at uratiot, Wis. 2. Ralph Read Russell, born May 5, 1878 at Gratiot, Wis. Susan Janet Russell Justus, oldest child of Lewis C. and Maggie· (Murdoch) Russell, was born on a farm in Gratiot Wis., Jan. 25, 1876 and went with her parents to the Centen­ nial at Philadelphia when eight months old and made repeat­ ed visits to Pennsylvania lat~r on. She atten

Cal., thence by rail to Los Angeles, where his wife's people lived. While waiting for an opportunity to present itself, he pur­ chased a new stock of go'Jds and opened a new clothing store at Holtville, in the Imperial Valley, on Mar. 2, 1914. After doing a little advertising and getting acquainted, he worked up a nice trade and in the fall he took in cotton in exchange for goods and considers 1914 the most profitable year he ever had in the clothing business. In 1915 and 1916 his business had increased to a very great extent. Ralph and Mae joined the M. E. church at Holtville in 1915 by let­ ter. . One beautiful evening in June, 1915, while he was waiting on trade, there came an awful earthquake and everyone in the store got out as quickly as they could and lined up in the street and left him to guess what was the trouble. Before they really got back there came another shock which nearly destroyed his new store and the ground shook so badly that a person could hardly keep on· their feet. Lighter shocks continued for nearly a year. Everybody slept in somebody's back yard that night. Ralph built a little sleeping bunga­ low that they used until December, 1915 and they then went in the house for the winter. He is doing a thriving business at Holtville and has moved his store down on the corner of Holt and Fifth avenue. His trade amounted to over $20, 000 in 1917. He has a fine trade from the Mexican popu­ lation. RUSSELLS ALONG THE W APSENA CHAPTER IX *Elizabeth Russell Baker Rogers, eleventh and youngest child of John and Mary (Woodruff) Russell, was born on the river above_ Nichols, N. Y., Mar. 3, 1803 and always lived around that part of the country. She married Ivers Baker, June 9, 1824 and settled at Warren, Pa., on the Wapsena Creek, where he died Feb. 7, 1838, aged 50 years. She con­ tinued on the farm, giving her family a good common school education. Children of Ivers and Elizabeth Baker 1. Marion Braidfoot, was born Feb. 24, 1825. 2. William Wallace Baker, was born 1827. Died Feb. 21, 1911. 3. Helen M. Baker, was born Oct. 29, 1829. Died D~c. 20, 1903. 4. Robert Bruce Baker, was born Aug_ 19, 1832. Died Oct. 25, 1912. 5. Julius Henry Baker, was born 1836. Died young. Aunt Betsy, besides caring for her own family, did a great amount of nursing among the sick. She spent a couple of years visiting her brother, Dr. G. W. Russell and her daughter, Helen Cox, in 1867, 1869. She then returned to Warren, Pa., and married Phillip Rogers, a near neighbor and brother to Dickinson Rogers of Argyle, Wis. Mr. Rog­ ers was her suitor when a young man and intended to marry her as soon as he could make it convenient, but didn't think it nec~ssary to speak to her on the subject. Finally, Mr. Baker came in the neighborhood and found Phillip napping, caught his bird. It was then Phillip woke up to find delays were dangerous. William H. Russell said of the different co:iples he ever married, they were the most excited of them all. RUSSELLS ALONG THE WAPSENA 151

Phillip,. Rogers died on his farm at-- Clipnockey, Warren, Pa., Mar. 31, 1883, aged 96 years. Elizabeth died at Mrs. Gox's hoo;ne, Winslow, Ill., Dec. 25, 1884, aged 81. Marion Braidfoot Baker Brainard, oldest child of Ivers and Elizabeth (Russell) Baker, was ~m at Warren, Pa., Feb. 24, 1825 and married -Darius Brai~,rd and settled in Windham on a farm. He was born Apr. 30, 1822. Marion died Aug. 24, 1863. •. . Darius died ·nee. 18, 1869. Children of Darius and Marrion 'Brainard 1. Martha Jane, born June 6, 1848 . • f J ···• • ... -- . 2. Matilda Hellen Braina~d,, was b.0J11. Aug. 1, 1850. Died July 3, 1885. . ,. ' 3. Truman Brainard, was born 1852. 4. Ellen Augusta Brainard, was born 1856., 5. Emma Elizabeth Brainard, born 18$2. f Died Oct. 1; 1883. After ·his: death the children carried ofi the far:ab. Martha· Jane- Brainard Shultz, oldest child 'oi Da:rius and Marrion, (Baket)~ Brainard, was born: at Windham,.': June o, 1848. She ifrfa.rried Henry Allen Shultz, Aug. · 23, 1868.: at Windham, Pa., and settled on a farm in the same neighbor­ hood where he was born, Apr. 21, 1844. In 1876 they moved to New York City to _e).~rk for her uncle, Bruce Ba.ker, in his milk and butter depot. In a sport time he was a can­ didate for alderman. He soon went into the milk, butter and egg business. He is now, (1917), on a farm near Nichols, N. Y. Childr£n of Henry A. and Martha J. (Brainard) Shultz 1. Marrion Elizabeth Shultz, born Sept. 25, 1869. 2. Truman Bruce Shultz, born Sept. 15, 1879. Marrion Elizabeth Shultz, oldest child of Henry A. and Martha (Brainard) Shultz, was born at Windham, Pa., Sept. 152 RUSSELLS ALONG THE W APSENA

:25, 1869 and moved to New York with her parents in 1876 and married Edwin J. Beard at Cortland, Sept. 26, 1892. Children of Edwin J. and Marrion E. Beard 1. Gertrude A. Beard, born at Nichols, Mar. 11, 1898. 2. Martha L. Beard, born at Nichols, N. Y ., Sept. 26, 1900. 3. Gloria H. Beard, born at Brooklins, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1902. 4. Muriel E. Beard, born at Nichols, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1910. Truman Bruce Shultz, second child of Henry A. and Mar- tha Jane Shultz, was born Sept. 18, 1879. Single in 1916. Hellen Matilda Brainard Neal, second child of Darius and Marrion (Baker) Brainard, was born in Windham, Pa., Aug. 1, 1850 and was a school teacher. She married Elmer Neal, March, 1876 and he died of tu­ berculosis June 30, 1879. They :had one child, Florence. Matilda came west with her grandmother in 1844, when her grandmother died at Winslow, Ill., on Chris1nas day. She fell victim to the same dl·eaded disease of her hus­ band and died July 3, 1885, aged 34 years, leav;ng one child. Florence Neal, only child of Elmer and Matilda (Brainard) Neal, was born at Windham, Pa., Sept. 7, 1877. Came west with her mother and great grandmother in 1884. She is a school teacher near New York City. Truman Brainard, third child of Darius M. and Marrion B. (Baker) Brainard, was born at Windham, Pa., in 1852 on a farm. His mother died when he was eleven and his father when seventeen years old, so he is really a self made man. Regardless of his youth, he carried on the farm and helped keep the family together until 187 4, when they broke up housekeeping. He married Addie E. Beardslee, daughter of Randolph and Stella Beardslee of Orwell, Pa., in 1874 and settled in New York City, first clerking for his uncle, Bruce Baker, in his milk, butter and egg depot, but soon procuring a like market of his own. RUSSELLS ALONG THE W APSENA · 153

Children of Truman and Addie E. (Beardslee) Brainard 1. Harry B. Brainard, born in New York City, Nov. 7, 1887. 2. Marrion Elizabeth Brainard, born in New York City, July 29, 1889. 3. Howard R. Brainard, was born in New York City, June 16, 1892. Present address is 591 Second Ave., New York City, N .Y. Harry B. Brainard, oldest child of Truman and Addie E. (Be:irdsle~) Brainard, was born in New York City, Nov. 7, 1887 and always remained in the city but now, 1917, is at Camp Mills, Long Island, with the Y. M. C. A. corps. Marrion Elizabeth Brainard, second child of Truman and Addie E. Brainard, was born July 29, 1889 in New York. Howard R. Brainard, third child of Truman and Addie E. ( B2ardslee) Brainard, was born in New York City, June 16, 1892. Ella Augusta Brainard Jillson, fourth child of Darius and l\1arr~on (Baker) Brainard, was born at Windham, Pa., July 14, 1854. Was a school teacher. She married Frank Jillson, March, 1876 and settled on a farm in Warr en, Pa. He died 1884. Their only child was Luce1ia D., born at Windham, Pa., Dec. 13, 1881. L1..1celia D. Jillson, only child of Frank and Ella A. (Brain­ ard) Jirson, was born at Windham on a farm and married George Davis. Emma Elizabeth Brainard, fifth child of Darius and Marion (Baker) Brainard, was born in Windham, Pa., Jan. 8, 1862. When abo:it one year old her mother died and when seven her father died and she went and lived with her grandmother, Aunt Bztsy (Baker) Rogers, Warren, Pa., where she sicken­ ed and died with the typhoid fever, Oct. 20, 1883. William Wallace Baker, second child of Iver and Eliza­ beth (Russell) Baker, was born at Warren, Pa., 1827. He married Priscilla, daughter of Phillip Rogers of War- 154 RUSSELLS ALONG THE W APSENA

ren and settled on a farm nearby. He carries on an exten­ sive business in shipping cows and horses to New York City in connection with his farming. He died at Binghamton, N. Y., Feb. 21, 1911. Children of William Wallace and Prise! 11a (Rogers) Baker 1. Josephine Eugene Baker, born 1856. Died 1891. 2. Elizabeth Rachael Baker, born 1859. 3. Franklin Bruce, born 1866. Died Feb. 11, 1909. Josephine Eugene Baker, oldest child of Wallace W. and Priscilla (Rogers) Baker, was born at Warren, Pa., 1856 and was a school teacher. She died June, 1891. Elizabeth Rachael Baker, second child of Wallace W. and Priscilla (Rogers) Baker, was born at Warren, Pa., 1859. She was a school teacher and married T. White. Franklin Bruce Baker, third child of Wallace and Priscilla (Rogers) Baker, was born at Warren, Pa., 1856 and operated the grist mill at Nichols for several years. He married in 1888 and sett:.ed in Nichols and conducted his uncle Bruce Baker's creamery and from there to Binghamton, N. Y., where he died Feb. 11, 1903 and was interred at Nich­ ols, N. Y. Hellen Marr Baker Cox, third child of Iver and Elizabeth (Russell) Baker, was born at Warren, Pa., Oct. 29, 1829. Was a genuine school teacher, commencing at the four mile woods, when she was fifteen years old at $1. 75 per week and boarding around. In the spring of 1861 she came west and taught the school in Uncle John's neighborhood four miles north of Janesville, Wis., and in the fall taught the Kingsley school west of Gra­ tiot, thence to Shullsburg, where she taught a select school and where she made four dollars a day and where she retired from teaching and married Henry Cox of Winslow, Ill., June, 1865. He was a California miner and Indian fighter. They set­ tled on a farm at Winslow, Ill. RUSSELLS ALONG THE WAPSENA 155

Children of Henry and Hellen M. (Baker) Cox 1. Fred Cox, was born at Winslow, Sept. 29, 1867. 2. Chester Cox, was born Dec. 7, 1869. In 1899 he sold his farm at Winslow and moved to New York City, where she died Dec. 20, 1903 and was interred at Nichols, N. Y. Henry Cox died Sept. 18, 1905 and was buried at Nichols, New York. Frederick Cox, oldest child of Henry and Hellen (Baker) Cox, was born at Winslow, Ill., on a farm, Sept. 29, 1867 and graduated at Normal school and business college, Dixon, Ill., August 1887, six weeks after being struck by lightning, learning his lessons by having them read to him by a fellow student. He was blind ·at the time from the lightning stroke. He also attended the Evanston university several years, by working his way through college and graduating there with honors. He married Louisa Wire of Winslow in Sept. 29, 1898 and went to New York City to live and from thence to Boston, where they both attended college. He graduated in law in 1902. He then settled in a law office in New York City, where he is cloing a tiourishing busines~. They have two ~hildren. c·1ester Cox, second child of Henry and Hellen M. (Baker) Co,~, was born at Winslow, Ill., on a farm, Dec. 7, 1869. He graduated at the Normal and Business Colleges in 1891 at Dixon, Ill. He went to New York City in 1899 and com­ menced assisting his uncle Bruce Baker in his butter, milk and egg b:'!sin ess. Robert Bruce Baker, fourth child of Ivers and Elizabeth (R·1ssell) Baker, was born at Warren, Pa., Aug. 18, 1832. He learned the tanner trade in connection with farming at the fork of the Wapsena Creek. He married Emma Rogers of Trenton, N. J., Nov. 26, 156 RUSSELLS ALONG THE WAPSENA

1858 and set~led on his farm in Warren for a few years, mak­ ing shipping of cows to New York a specialty. In 1871 he moved to New York and started a milk, butter and egg depot, which business he carried on during his life. He opened a creamery at Warren, Pa., about 1895 for a few years and another one at Nichols, which he was op­ erating at the time of his death. Bruce and his wife, Emma, were out west in 1881 to Read and Sarah V. Russell's china anniversary and visiting re:atives in La Fayette County, Wis., and an extensive tour throughout Minnesota and Da­ kota. He -came west in December, 1884, after his mother's re­ mains, who died at his sister's home, l\1rs. Ht3llen Cox of Winslow. , Foster Children of Bruce R. and Emma (Rogers) Baker 1. Delphine E. Baker Irwin, born July 19, 1861. Mar­ ried George Irwin in 1895. 2. Rolland Jakway Baker, born 1883. Albert Baker Irwin, was born in 1873. Dentist, located at Nichols, N. Y. Emma Baker Irwin Russ2ll, born July 15, 1884. Married ·Fr;?derick Cleveland Russell, Jan 15, 1910. She is an ac­ complished musician. They live at Nichols, N. Y. Bruce came west to visit his sister in 1896, making a very brief visit. Emma, his wife, died at New York City, Dec. 20, 1903. Brace Baker died at Nichols, Oct. 25, 1912, with heart failure. Julius Henry, fifth child of Ivers and Elizabeth (Russell) Baker, was born at Warren, Pa., May 19, 1837. Died Oct­ ober, 1837. Rolland R. Baker, fifth son of James and Frances (Rus­ sell) Jakway, was born at Windham, Pa., Dec. 27, 1872 and was raised by Bruce Baker, New York City. He married Elizabeth Briven, Apr. 20, 1897. He resides in Nichols with his family and is bookkeeper for a large firm on Wall street, New York. MURDOCHS IN GALSTON, SCOTLAND CHAPTER X Children of Robert and Margaret (Pollock Murdoch 1. James Murdoch. born N'ov. 29, 1803 at Galston, Scot- land.~ 2. Agnes Murdoch, born Dec. 6, 1805 at Galston, Scotland. 3. John Murdoch, born Jan. 26, 1818. Deceased young. 4. Robert Murdoch, born Feb. 6, 1810. 5. Elizabeth Murdoch, born May 12, 1812. 6. John Murdo{!h, born Aug. 22, 1814. 7. Thomas Murdoch, born Nov. 23, 1816. 8. Margaret Murdoch, born Dec. 6, 1819. 9. Ebenezer Murdoch, born Aug. 5, 1822. 10. Alexander Murdoch, born June 12, 1825. Died Feb. 17, 1906. Alexander Murdoch, the tenth child of Robert and Marga­ ret (Pollock) Murdoch, was born at Galston, Scotland, June 2, 1825 and was a weaver by oc~upation. He married Janet Thompson Rogers, June 26, 1846, a daughter of Gzorge Rogers of that place. She was born Apr. 30, 1824 and they settled in Kilmornic, Scotland, where he went on th~ police force for several years. On the 26th of June, 1849, they took ship for America with the;r two sons, Robert and George R. and landed in New York, Aug. 28, 1849 after a stormy and tedious voyage of 63 days, in company with his wife's people and settled on Oak Hill, U!ster, Pa., on a piece of timber land, which he c1eared off and deve'oped into a farm and at the same time wo:ild run lumber down the river in the spring of the year in order to gzt a little ready money. During the civil war he was drafted twice, the first time he got exempt by paying $300, the next time he paid a substitute $1,000 to take his place and peace was declared bzfore the substitute ever got to the front. 158 MURDOCHS ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA

In 1875 he traded his store in Ulster, Pa., for a farm near to-.vn, known as the old Lockwood farm, where he spent the rest of his life. In 187°6 his wife Janet made her first visit to Gratiot, Wis. In 1888 he made his first visit back to Scotland, his native land, and again in a few years taking with him his grand­ daughter, Ella Murdo~h and spent the summer months. He came west in 1882, 90, 92, 93 and 1905. Children of Alexander and Janet (Rogers) Murdoch 1. Robert M1,1rdoch, born July 9, 1847 at Kilmonic, Scot­ land. 2. George Rogers Murdoch, born Oct. 11, 1848 at Kil- monic, Scotland. 3. Christina Murdoch, born May 7, 1851 at Ulster, Pa. 4. Maggie Murdo~h, born Nov. 13, 18~3 at Ulster, Pa. 5. Alexander Murdoch, born Nov. 11, 1855 at Ulster, Pa. 6. Ella Murdoch, born Jan. 26, 1860 at Ulster, Pa. 7. James T. Murdoch, born Jan. 7, 1832 at Ulster, Pa. 8. Carri2 Murdoch, born Nov. 1, 1857. Janet T. (Rogers) Murdoch died Aug. 15, 1885. Alexander Murdoch died at Ella (Murdoch) Ro~kweE's, Feb. 17, 1906. Dr. Robert Murdoch, oldest child of Alexander and Janet T. (Rogers) Murdoch, was born at Kilmonic, Scotland, July 9, 1847 and landed in New York City, Aug. 28, 1849 with his parents after a voyage of 63 days and went direct to Oak Hill, Ulster, Pa. He attended district school and grad­ uated at the Homeopathic Med!cal College at Philadelphia, Pa. On Oct. 29, 1873, he married Ophelia Watkins, born Sept. 18, 1855 at Sheshequin, Pa., and settled in Burlington, Pa., and practiced m~dic~ne there until 1880 when he moved to 194 South Main street, Wilkes Barre, Pa., for the purpose of enlarging his bus:ness and where he became interested in many public en~erprises in the city, one of which he with others, founded the Homeopathic Hospital of Wi]kes Barre. He has made several extensive trips through the south MURDOCHS ALONG THE SUSQUSHANNA 159 and west, one of which was a trip with his father to Illinois in 1905. Ch..iidren of Dr. Robert and Ophelia (Watkins) Murdoch 1. Ella Murdoch, born July 23, 1874 at Burlington, Pa. 2. Lena Murdoch, born Apr. 21, 1878 at Burlington, Pa. -3. M~rgarite Murdoch, born Sept. 3, 1887 at Wilkes Barre, Pa. 4. Rebert Murdoch, Jr., born July 18, 1890 at Wilkes Barre, Pa. El!a Murdoch Howl~tt, oldest child of Dr. Robert and Ophelia (Watkins) Murdoch, was born July 23, 1874 at Burlington, Pa. She attended high school at Wilkes Barre, Pa., and graduated in elocution at Boston, Mass. She made a visit to Scotland with her grandfather in the s:immer of 1888 and visited her aunt, Maggie Russell in the summer of 1892 at Warren, Ill. Shz married Albert Howlett, a designer and decorator of Boston, a contractor employing a· large force of men. They live on the sea shore in that city. Chi!dren of Albert and Ella (Murdoch) Howlett 1. Edith Howlett, was born at Boston. 2. Duncan Albert Howlett, was born at Boston. 3. Ruthe Howlett, was born at Boston in 1910. Lena Murdc~h, second child of Dr. Robert and Ophelia (Watkins) Murdoch, was born at Burlington, Pa., Apr. 21, 1878 and moved to Wilkes Barre, Pa., with her parents about 1880 and attended the high school and graduated there. S:1e is a Sunday school teacher and a great church work­ er. Sh~ remains at home. Margarite Murdoch, third child of Dr. Robert and Ophelia (Watkins) Murdoch, was born at Wilkes Barre, Pa., Sept. 3, 1881. Attended the high school and graduated there, also attended a school of domestic science in which she takes an active part. Dr. Robert Murdoch, Jr., fourth child of Dr. Robert and Ophe~ia (Watkins) Murdoch, was born at Wilkes Barre, 160 ·MURDOCHS ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA

Pa., July 18, 1890. Graduated at the high school at Wilkes Barre, also at the Homeopathic Medical College at Phila­ de~phia, June, 1913 and began pract:ce in the Homeopathic hospital at Wilkes Barre in the fall of 1913. A short time afterwards, he established himself in a separate office in the center of the city and worked up a very fine practic~. When the war broke out with Germany, he was among the first to offer his services to his country's call and in October, prior to his going to France, he was at Syracuse, N. Y., tra;ning a corps of 47 doctors to prepare them for army life. George Rogers M~rdo!!h, second son of Alexander and Janet (Rogers) Murdoch, was born in Kilmonic, Scotland, Oct. 11, 1848. Sailed for America with his parents in June 26, 1849 and landed at New York City, Aug. 28, 1849 and settled on Oak Hill, Ulster, Pa. He attended district school and the Collegiate Institute at Towanda, Pa. After years of maturity he purchased his father's farm on Oak Hill. He marr:ed ( 1) Susan Van Dyke, Aug. 6, 1879 and set­ tled on the farm. They had one son, Lawrence. 1. Lawrenc2 Murdoch, was born July, 1880 at Ulster, Pa. On Oct. 21, 1886, George R. Murdoch n1arried (2) Geor­ gianna Irving, born in Kilmonic, Scotland, and settled in Ulster a few years and then moved to Forty Fort, Wyoming Valley, Pa., and went into dairying and truck farming and has a fine farm and raises vegetables for the Wilkes Barre market. Child of Geo-rge R. and Georgfanna (Irving) Murd~h 1. William Murdoch was born at Ulster, Pa., Jan. 27, 1890. Lawrence Murdoch, only child of George Rogers and Su­ san (Van Dyke) Murdoch, was born at Ulster, Pa., July, 1880. In 1902 he came west to Illinc-is and remained around Warren for awhile and went to Dakota in the fall through the threshing season. The following winter he went to Ore­ gon in a saw mill for a couple of years and then returned MURDOCHS ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA 161 to Forty Fort and lived with his father on the farm. He married Emma Glawn of Wyoming, Pa., a dress maker, Sspt2mber, 1912 and settled in his new house at Forty Fort, Pa. ChHd of Lawrence and Emma Murdoch 1. Ge~rg~ Ra~ph Murdoch, born July, 1917 at Forty Fort, Pa. W.tlliam Murdoch, only child of George R. and Georgi­ a:1na (Irving) Murdoch, was born at Ulster, Pa., Jan. 27. 1830 and went to Forty Fort with his parents. He attended the seminary at Kingston and graduated there in 1913. He is assisting his father on the farm most of the time ·with the delivery wagon, marketing the produce in the city of Wilkes Barre, Pa. He married Carolyn Vir­ ginia Yeager, Oct. 19, 1915, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har­ vey Yeager of Forty Fort, Pa. Ch:Id of W.iBiam and Carolyn V. (Yeager) Murdoch 1. William Yeager Murdoch, born February, 1917 at Forty Fort, Pa. Christ~na Murdoch Watkins, third child of Alexander and Janet T. (Rogers) Murodch, was born at Ulster, Pa., May 7, 1851. She attended the district school and tb~ Collegiate Institute at Towanda, Pa., and married Adolphus Watkins, Sept. 24, 1872. 1-Ie was born Aug. 31, 18i0 and they set­ tled on the farm he was born on, in Ulster, Pa. They made a visit in W~sconsin in 1877 and another in 1882 and visited the m~nes in Shullsburg, where she lifted three pigs of lead from the ground-225 pounds! He held several offices of trust in Ulster and died at his home, Feb. 15, 1909. Children of Adolphus and Christina Watkins 1. Cora Watkins, born at Ulster, Jan. 1, 1875. Died Jan. 10, 1877. 2. George Henry Watkins, bom Mar. 31, 1878 at Ulster. 3. Leslie Day Watkins, born Aug. 26, 1888. Christina made a visit at W2rren, Ill., in the autumn of 1910 and again in 1915 and staid several months and did a 162 MURDOCHS ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA

little nursing She has followed the business of nursing seven years but is now, 1917, back on her farm. George Henry Watkins, second child of Ado1phus and Christina (Murdoch) Watkins, was born Jan. 1, 1878 at Ulster, and attended the Ulster high school. He married Laura Brague of Towanda. He operated a butcher shop at Athens, Pa., for two years and in Ulster for two years. Made a visit in Warren, Ill., about 1907 and js nQW, 1917, farming the Lavilla Roc~w~ll farm in Ulster. Their only child is Mary Watkins, born at Ulster, July 10, 1901 and attends the Ulster high school. Leslie Day Watkins, third chlid of Adolphus and Christina (Murdoch) Watkins, was born at Ulster, Pa., Aug. 26, 1888 and attended the high school and graduated at Ulster in 1907. He married Ethel Palmer in 1910 and worked with his wife's peop!e a couple of years and went on his mother's farm in 1912 for three years, from thence to Elmira in a garage, November, 1915. Children of Leslie D. and Ethel (Palmer) Watkins 1. Alice Gertrude Watkins, born Mar. 30, 1913 at Ulster. . 2. Louise Mildred Watkins, born Sept. 2, 1914. :Maggie ( Murdoch) Russell, fourth child of Alexander and Janet T. (Rogers) Murdoch, was born at Ulster, Pa., Nov. 13, 1853. Attended school on Oak Hill and taught school in 1872 and kept house for her father and assisted in his store in Ulster in 1873 and married Lewis C. Russell of Gratiot, Wis., where they lived until January, 1882, and then moved to Warren, Ill., where they live now. Children of Lewis C. and Maggie (Murdceh) Russell 1. Susan Janet Russell, born Jan. 25, 1876 at Gratiot, Wisconsin. 5. Ralph Read Russell, born May 5, 1878 at Gratiot, Wisconsin. Alexander Murdoch, fifth child of Alexander and Janet T. (Rogers) Murdoch, was born at Ulster, Pa., on Nov. 11, 1855. In 1875 he moved to Ulster village with his parents. MURDOCHS ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA 163

He married Frank Gillmore of Oak Hill, Apr. 16, 1879 and settled on his farm in Smithfield Township, for ~ few years and then moved to Wyoming, Pa., about 1892 and op­ erated a large dairy farm of 60 to 70 cows, supplying the cit~ es of Wyoming and Pittston with milk until the summer of 1913 when he took in as a partner, his son Ray to take charge of the business. · About the year of 1905 he invested pretty heavy in a te!ephone line in ~ex;as at Ft. Wo:-th, where he ..put .in sev"'.'­ eral tho:isand dollars and held it until 1912 and then sold his interest at a good profit. Alexander attended the Pan American in 1901, called on his Warren friends on his way to Ft. Worth and was out in the Rocky Mountains in 1905 and stopped at Warren to accompany his father home to Pennsylvania. When his son Ray died in June, 1917, he was obliged to take fu 11 control of the dairy business again. Frank, his ·wife, was born at Ulster, Pa., Mar. 20, 1858. Children of Alexander and Frank (Gillmore) Murdoch 1. Ray C. Murdoch, born Mar. 18, 1885 at Smithfield. 2. Clair Alexander Murdoch, born Aug. 6, 1894 at Wyoming, Pa. Ray C. Murdoch, oldest child of Alexander and Frank (Gillmore) Murdoch, was born at Smithfie:d, Pa., on a farm. He attended the public school and went to the Pan American at Buffalo, N. Y. He married Jessie about 1909 and settled on the farm and went in partnership with his father in the dairy busi­ ness. Was on the Smithfield farm in 1914. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity and was Master of the lodge for a season. Children of Ray and Jessie Murdoch 1. Richard Alexander Murdoch, was born Nov. 4, 1912. 2. Clare Milbourn Murdoch, born Dec. 25, 1915. Ray C. died with the apop!exy June 1, 1917 at Wyoming, Pa., and was interred at Ulster, Pa. Jessie, his wife, lives at her home in Wyoming, Pa. 164 MURDOCHS ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA

C!are Alexander Murdceh, second child of Alexander and Frank (Gillmore) Murdoch, was born at Wyoming, Pa., Aug. 6, 1894 and attended the Seminary at Kingston and graduated there in 1913 and remains at home. Ella Murdoch Rockwell, sixth child of Alexander and Janet (Rogers) Murdoch, was born at Ulster, Jan. 23, 1830 and attended the Ulster high school and married Albert Rockwell, Apr. 14, 1880. He was born Mar. 30, 1853 and farmed in company with his brothers for many years. He moved on the Murdceh farm about 1895 and purchased it in March 1906 and another farm nearby. He works both farms and makes a specialty of dairy­ ing and raises tobacco. Children of Albert and Ella (Murdc,ch) Rockwell 1. Guy Edward Rockwell, born May 30, 1888. Guy Edward Rockwell, only child of Albert and E~la (Murdcch) Rockwell!, was born at Ulster, Pa. He attended the Ulster high school and graduated there June, 1907 and went into business with his father ·on the iarm and does consid·~rable lumbering and contract work. He was s:.iper­ intendent of the State Highwayy fer several years. He married Miss Clemence Gooding of Horn Brook, Pa., Wednesday evening, June 27, 1917 at eight o'clock. James Thompson Murdoch, seventh child of Alexander and Janet (Rogers) Murdoch, was born at Ulster, Pa., Jan. 7, 1862 and graduated in the Commercial College at Bing­ hamton, N. Y. and where he married Fannie Stodard, June 2, 1886. She was born Nov. 16, 1858 and died in 1908. They had one daughter, Janet. James T. Murdoch be:ongs to the Masonic order.He mar­ ried ( 2) Kittie Bell Marvin in the fall of 1912. She carried on an extensive millin~ry store and shop at Binghamton, N. Y. He has always followed the hardware business. Janet Murdoch, only daughter of James T. and Fannie (Stodard) Murdoch, was hem at Binghamton, N. Y., Mar. MURDOCHS ALONG THE SUSEQUEHANNA 165

17, 1890. She came west in 1909 and took a course of study for a nurse in the White hospital at Freeport, Ill., where she graduated in November, 1911 and returned to her home city the following January to practice her profession. She is succeeding nicely. Caroline Murdoch Stephens, eighth child of Alexander and Janet (Rogers) Murdoch, was born at Ulster, •Nov. 1, 1864. She came west in February, 1888, when it was extremely cold-36 degrees below zero. She kept house for her father several years on his farm at Ulster. On Apr. 2, 1891, she married Harry Stephens of Standing Stone, a machinist at Sayre, Pa. Children of Harry and Carrie (Murdoch) Stephens 1. Christina Stephens, was born Mar. 6, 1892. 2. Harriet Stephens, was born June 23, 1897. Caroline died at Sayre, 1898 and was interred at Ulster, Pennsylvania. Christina Stephens, oldest child of Harry and Came (Mur­ doch) Stephens, was born at Sayre, Pa., Mar. 6, 1892. She attended the Sayre high school and graduated there and taught school the year of 1912 at Standing Stone, then took a course at the Mansfield College and graduated there and in the fall of 1913, came to Warren, Ill., to make her Aunt Maggie a visit. Upon returning home she took up the study at the Pack­ er hospital for a nurse and graduated in the spring of 1916. She married the same year. Harriet Stephens, the second child of Harry and Carrie (Murdoch) Stephens, was born at Sayre, June 23, 1897 and she lives at her father's home in Sayre, Pa.

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