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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. -

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, 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 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, 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.