of Monument, Massachusetts · documented from the public record
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Russell Blackwell 1823 – 1898
Russell Blackwell⚭ Lydia B. Phinney
childrenElisha B. Blackwell · Ada Blackwell · Lillie Blackwell · Lydia A. Blackwell · Russell W. S. Blackwell
Source: Source: Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota (1900)
Their story
What the record says
Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota (1900).
Father of subject R.W.S. Blackwell.
Born in Monument, Massachusetts, of English-Puritan descent.
Sea captain in the American merchant marine (forefathers followed the seas 2.5 centuries).
Died at Bourne 17 Nov 1898, aged 75 (birth year ~1823 estimated).
Prominent man in his native town.
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