Researching Samuel Russell
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The name Samuel means "asked of God" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Samuel Russell and the Russell Family History
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Samuel Lyon Russell
Samuel Lyon Russell (July 30, 1816 – September 27, 1891) was a Whig member of the United States of America (U.S.) House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Samuel L. Russell (son of James McPherson Russell) was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, in 1816. He attended the common schools and Bedford Academy. He graduated from Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1834. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Bedford. He served as prosecuting attorney of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, during the 1840s.
Russell was elected as a Whig to the thirty-third Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination and resumed the practice of law in Bedford. He became a Republican upon the organization of that party in 1856. He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1873 and a member of the town council and the school board. He died in Bedford in 1891 and was buried in Bedford Cemetery.
Source: Samuel Lyon Russell, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaSamuel Russell (Yale co-founder)
Samuel Russell (4 November 1660 – 24 June 1731) was one of the founders of Yale University.
He was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, the second son of Rev. John Russell and Rebecca Newberry Russell.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1681 and was ordained while teaching at Hadley, Massachusetts. On 12 September 1687, he was elected pastor of the church at Branford, Connecticut where he officiated for the remainder of his life. The founders of Yale University met in his study in Branford to contribute their books to the founding of the University. The doors of the Samuel Russell house in Branford are preserved in the 1742 Room of Sterling Memorial Library at Yale.
Source: Samuel Russell (Yale co-founder), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaSamuel Russell (politician)
Samuel Russell (January 29, 1848 – February 26, 1924) was a Presbyterian missionary, newspaper editor and politician in New Brunswick and Ontario, Canada. He represented Hastings East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1898 to 1904 as a Liberal.
The son of James Russell and Ann Carruthers, natives of Ireland, he was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick and was educated there and at the University of New Brunswick. Russell went on to study theology at Queen's University and the University of Glasgow. In 1872, he began preaching in Red Bank and Black River. Russell was ordained in Newcastle in 1873. He served as a minister in Newcastle. In 1876, he moved to Montreal. From 1878 to 1880, he served as pastor at the Scotch Colony at Kincardine, New Brunswick. Russell apparently subsequently left the ministry.
He married Evelyn M. Davis. Russell later moved to Deseronto, where he was editor of the Tribune.
He died in Belleville at the age of 76. At the time of his death, Russell was registrar for Hastings County.
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