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 RUSSELL. RUSSELL. 527 him employment in Providence, where he remained for two years, returning to Bos- ton in 1852, and entering the employ of Edward Locke & Co., clothiers. Three years later Mr. Russell became connected with the wholesale clothing house of Isaac Fenno & Co., and became a member of the firm in 1861, retiring in 1869 with a com- petency. In 1852 Mr. Russell went to Melrose to reside, and has ever since been intimately identified with the welfare of the town. He has served three years on the board of selectmen, and is at present commissioner of the water loan sinking fund. He is also president of the Melrose Savings Bank. DANIEL RUSSELL In 187S he was elected to represent the 6th Middlesex senatorial district, serving as chairman of the committee on insurance, and as a member of the committee on agri- culture. He was re-elected in 1879, and in 1880 was a delegate to the national Republican convention. He is a director in the Maiden & Melrose Gas Light Com- pany and the Putnam Woolen Company, and is connected with the Masonic organ- izations of Melrose. October 21, 1S50, Mr. Russell married Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Lynde, of Melrose. Their children are : William Clifton and Daniel Blake Russell. RUSSELL, EDWARD, was born in North Yarmouth, Cumberland county, Maine, in 1820. He was the son of Gen. Edward Russell, a prominent citizen of that town, who during the administrations of govern- ors Lincoln and Huntoon, held the office of secretary of state for the state of Maine. His early education was derived from op- portunities afforded by the academies at North Yarmouth, Gorham and Portland, Maine. Having given up the idea of a college course, he entered the employ of the well- known house of Hurd, Hutchins & Skin- ner, Boston, West India goods and grocer- ies. While yet a lad, he was promoted to the responsible position of book-keeper in the Charlestown store carried on by the same firm. Following this engagement, he became book-keeper for two years in a bank in Charlestown. In 1842 Mr. Russell became a partner with David Dow, under the firm name of Dow & Russell, groceries and ship stores, Commercial Street, Boston. This was ter- minated in 1844, when he entered the ser- vice of the Mercantile Agency in Boston, founded two years previously by Hon. Lewis Tappan, of New York. Becoming its chief clerk, he followed up the method and system originally established, adding such improvements as the continuous en- largement of the business required. A change was made in 1853, and the firm name of the Mercantile Agency became Edward Russell & Co., Mr. Russell being the controlling spirit of the concern, as he has ever since been. His success has shown his ability in this direction. October 8, 1845, Mr. Russell was mar- ried to Mary VV. Field, of North Yarmouth, Maine, by whom he had two children : a son and daughter, of whom only the son, Edward Baldwin Russell, survives. He is now his partner in business. His first wife having deceased, Mr. Russell was married in June, 1876, to Gertrude, younger daugh- ter of the late Loring Wheeler, of East- port, Maine. Mr. Russell has long been a life member of the Xew England Historic Genealogical Society, and resides at Brookline. RUSSELL, JOHN E., son of John Rus- sell, and a native of Greenfield, Franklin county, was born January 20, 1S34. His mother was a descendant of the Witmers of Lancaster, Pa. He received his early training in private schools, but adopted no profession. In 1858 Mr. Russell traveled in Central America, and beinar familiar with the