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 526 RUGG. RUSSELL. This labor of love and devotion was a suc- cess, and after a history of five seasons, it was united with the Boston Industrial School. It was not designed to make finished wood-carvers, but to save young men from drifting into idleness, or the crowded lines of employment, by develop- ing and guiding the whittling habit into a useful application. Mr. Rowell was married in 1852, at Lebanon, N. H., to Almira Alden, daugh- ter of Abner and Lydia Pinney (Alden) Ealch, of that town. RUGG, ARTHUR P., son of Prentice M. and Cynthia (Ross) Rugg, was born in Sterling, Worcester county, August 20, 1862. He attended the district schools of Ster- ling and fitted for college at the Lancaster high school. He was graduated from Am- herst College in the class of 1883, and from the Boston University law school, with highest honors, in the class of 1886, being one of the commencement speakers in the latter institution. He was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in July, 1886. He im- mediately began the practice of law in Worcester, and formed an association with John R. Thayer, which relation continues to date. Mr. Rugg was married in Worcester, April 10, 1889, tn Florence M., daughter of Charles and Esther J. (Jewett) Belcher. Mr. Rugg -has served four years as a member of the Sterling school board, and three years as a trustee of the public library. He is a Republican in politics, and has served for several years as a member of the Republican town committee. His in- creasing and successful practice has alone prevented his acceptance of a nomination to the House of Representatives, frequently urged upon him by his fellow-citizens. RUMR1LL, JAMES AUGUSTUS, son of James Bliss and Rebecca Rumrill, was born April 8, 1837, in New York City. He attended private schools in New York until ten years of age, when he was sent to a boarding-school in West Cromwell, Conn., kept by Dr. S. Y. Gould, and later to a boarding-school in Jamaica Plain, Mass. When sixteen years old he went to Phillips Academy, Andover, where he fitted for Harvard College, entering in 1855 and graduating in 1859. After graduating from Harvard, he studied law in the office of the late Chief Justice Chapman, for a year, and then at Harvard law school, where he graduated in 1861. He went abroad to the Univer- sity at Berlin for a year, and returning in 1862, was admitted to the bar, and prac- ticed law in Springfield until chosen attorney of the Western R. R. Corporation, in the fall of 1865. This 'office he held till the road was consolidated with the Boston & Albany R. R., in 1868. He was then ap- pointed solicitor and secretary of the con- solidated company, which position he held until 1SS0, when he was elected to his present position of vice-president. Mr. Rumrill was an alderman during the Democratic administration of the city gov- ernment of Springfield under William L. Smith, mayor, and a member of Governor Gaston's staff. He has also filled the offices of president of the Chapin National Bank, president of the Ware River R. R., vice- president of the Springfield City Library, vice-president of the Hampden Savings Bank, director of the Union Pacific R. R., the Ware River R. R., the l'ittslicld & North Adams R. R., the Monadnock and the Peterborough & Hillsborough R. R., the New London Northern Railroad, and the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago R. R. In social and philanthropic circles, Mr. Rumrill has held important offices ; has been a director of the Springfield city hos- pital, and the Springfield cemetery, and has been president of the Springfield Club. In political life he has always been an earnest worker ; and in the fall of 1888 was urged to accept the nomination of the Democratic party as congressman from the district, but declined. On May 22, 1861, he was married in Springfield, to Anna Cabot, daughter of Hon. Chester W. Chapin. Their children are : Rebecca, Anna C, and Chester Chapin Rumrill. RUSSELL, DANIEL, son of Daniel and Mary W. Russell, was born in Providence, R. I., on the 16th day of July, 1824, and educated at the public schools of Provi- dence. The necessity of self-support was early impressed upon him, and at the age of seventeen he began real life in his own behalf as a mechanic. For three years he served an apprenticeship at one branch of carriage manufacturing in his native city, and upon graduating from this school, he labored in the same place and at Mid- dleborough, Mass., as journeyman for four years, at the end of which time (1847), accompanied by a fellow - workman, he moved to Boston and began the business of selling small-wares by sample. Two years later he determined to go to Cali- fornia, but the Hon. Nathan Porter offered