Rusk, Harry Welles – Russell, Irwin
Rusk, Harry Welles
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1852, in Baltimore, Md. In 1872 he graduated from the Maryland university law school with the degree of LL. B.
For six years he was a member of the Maryland house of delegates; and for four years a member of the Maryland senate. He was elected a representative from Baltimore to the forty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy; and was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses. -
Rusk, Jeremiah Mclain
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born June 17, 1830, in Morgan county, Ohio.
He was a member of the Wisconsin legislature in 1862. He was commissioned major of Wisconsin volunteers in 1862, and was brevetted brigadier general.
He was elected bank comptroller of Wisconsin in 1866, and re-elected for 1868.
He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-second, forty-third and forty-fourth congresses. He elected governor of Wisconsin in 1882, and was re-elected in 1884 and in 1886. In 1889 he was elected secretary of agriculture. was
Rusk, Thomas Jefferson
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Aug. 8, 1802, in Camden, S. C.
He served as a member of the house of representatives and as chief justice of the supreme court, which last office he resigned early in 1842. In 1845 he was president of the convention that consummated the annexation of Texas to the United States. Upon the admission of Texas into the Union in 1845 he was elected one of the senators in the congress of the United States, in which office he served two terms and was re-elected for the third term, ending in 1863. He died July 29, 1856, in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Russ, John
congressman, was born in Ipswich, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1819 to 1823. He died June 22, 1832, in Hartford, Conn.
Russell, Addison Peale
journalist, author, was born in 1826 in Ohio. He is an Ohio journalist and essayist, now living in retirement in Wilmington, Ohio.
He is the author of Half Tints; Library Notes; Thomas Corwin, a Sketch; Characteristics; A Club of One; In a Club Corner; and Sub-Cœlum.
Russell, Alfred
jurist, scholar, orator, was born March 18, 1830, in Plymouth, N. H. In 1850 he graduated from Dartmouth college, and in 1852 from the Harvard college law school.
The same year he was admitted to the bar of New Hampshire; the following year to the bar of Michigan; to the bar of the United States circuit court on June 25, 1853, and to the bar of the supreme court of the United States at Washington in 1858. He took part in the formation of the republican party. In 1864 he was sent to Montreal and Toronto by Secretary Seward to procure extradition of the St. Albans and Lake Erie raiders. He was appointed United States district attorney by President Lincoln; and has been professor of federal jurisprudence in the Detroit College of Law. He is the author of many patriotic and college addresses, and has achieved a national reputation among the lawyers and scholars of America.
Russell, Amos B
clergyman, poet, was born Feb. 24, 1825, in Woodstock, N. H.
After taking a theological course he became pastor of the methodist church of Gilmanton, N. H. He has traveled extensively in Europe; and now fills the pastorate in East Lempster. His poems have appeared in the Boston Christian Witness, and other prominent religious publications; and his poems also appeared in Poets of America and other standard works; and are a valuable acquisition to American literature.
Russell, Archibald
philanthropist, was born in 1811 in Scotland. He settled in New York city in 1836, where he devoted his time and fortune to benevolent and educational enterprises, founding the Five Points mission, of which he was president for eighteen years, and aiding in establishing the Half- Orphan asylum, of which he was a vicepresident. He died April 12, 1871, in New York city.
Russell, Benjamin
soldier, journalist, state senator, author, was born Sept. 13, 1761, in Boston, Mass. For twenty-four years he was a representative from Boston to the general court, and was several years in the state senate.
For many years he was the editor and owner of the Columbian Sentinel. died Jan. 4, 1845, in Boston, Mass.
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Russell, Benjamin Edward
soldier, journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1845, in Monticello, Fla. He entered the confederate army as a drummer boy in the first Georgia regiment, and upon the disbanding of this regiment he immediately enlisted in the eighth Florida regiment, continuing with it the last three years of the war with the rank of first lieutenant. He entered the printing business, and has been twenty-one years editor of the Bainbridge Democrat. In 1877 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention; delegate to the national democratic convention in 1880, and mayor of Bainbridge in 1881-82. He was a representative in the legislature 1882-83, and postmaster at Bainbridge from 1885 to 1890. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Russell, Benjamin F
lawyer, journalist, legislator, was born Oct. 26, 1844, in Greenwood, Maine. During the civil war he served as lieutenant in the third regiment "Massachusetts cavalry. He has served as a representative in the Missouri state legislature, and has been speaker in that body. a
Russell, Charles Addison
soldier, merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born March 2, 1852, in Worcester, Mass. He received a public school and collegiate education, and in 1873 graduated from Yale college During 1881-82 he was aide - de - camp on Governor Bigelow's staff, with the rank of colonel. In 1883 he was a member of the general assembly of Connecticut; and in 1885-86 was secretary of state of Connecticut. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses. He is a successful woolen merchant of Killingly, Conn.
Russell, Daniel Lindsay
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1845, in Brunswick county, N. C. He was elected to the North Carolina state legislature in 1864, and re-elected in 1865.
He was elected judge of the superior courts for the fourth judicial circuit in 1868, and served six years; and was again elected to the legislature in 1876. He was elected to the forty-sixth congress.
Russell, David
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1800 in Massachusetts. He was in the legislature in 1816 and in 1830, subsequently United States district attorney for northern New York, and in 1835-41 was a member of congress. He died Nov. 24, 1862, in Salem, N. Y.
Russell, Emory Poole
musician, educator, lecturer, was born Sept. 20, 1855, in New York city. This eminent musician was proprietor and director of the Conservatory of Music in New York state, and is now director of music in Providence, R. I.
Russell, Francis Thayer
educator, clergyman, author, was born June 10, 1828, in Roxbury, Mass. He is an episcopal clergyman and educator of Waterbury, Conn., rector of St. Margaret's school there, and voice instructor in the General Theological seminary in New York city. He is the author of The Use of the Voice.
Russell, George H
scientific tanner, was born April 27, 1835, in Laughtenstown, Pa. For many years he was superintendent of the Russell Belting and Tanning company of Baltimore, Md., and New York city. He is the inventor of a system of tanning fine oak harness leather, a process which makes a fine grade out of a fair sole leather for fine work, nice russet and belting.
Russell, Harry Luman
bacteriologist, author, was born March 12, 1866, in Poynette, Wis. For many years he has filled the chair of bacteriology in the university of Wisconsin; and is the consulting bacteriologist to the Wisconsin state board of health. He has made valuable researches in bacteriology; and is the author of Russell's Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology.
Russell, Henry
author, was born Dec. 24, 1842, in Port Kent, N. Y. He is the author of a number of songs. Among his best known are, The Maniac; I'm Afloat; The Ivy Green; A Life on the Green Wave; Woodman, Spare that Tree; The Old Arm-Chair; anu There's a Good Time Coming, Boys.
Russell, Irwin
author, was born in 1853. He is a southern writer of dialect verse; and the author of Dialect Poems.
He died in 1879.