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Born 1823
From History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881)
JOSEPH K. RUSSELL, agricultural works, Massillon: was l)orn June 26, 1823, in Cheshire Co., N. H., the fifth son and seventh child of a family of eleven children, born to Cyrus and Louisa (Stratton) Russell; he, born in Weston, Mass., son of Joseph, whose ancestors came fi'om England. Joseph had four sons and three daughters- Cyrus, Sylvanus, Clement and Joseph; Abigail, Susan, and Louisa. His wife was a daughter of Isaac Stratton. The Strattons came from Lincoln, Mass. Isaac Stratton had Nahum, Henry-, Lewis, Louisa, Mary, Priscilla and Miu'cha. Cyrus received certificate of county land for services in the war of 1812. He died in 1872, in Connecticut, having gone there foiuor five years previously. The boys remained on the farm, but J. K. came West in 1842. and worked at a trade, but returned to Ntnv England in 1845, and stayed until 1863, then returned here. He was married Jan. 1, 1841), to Lucretia J. Harris, who was born in Cheshire Co., N. H., in 1828, daughter of Milan and Lois Wright. He has five children-Burnett, Charles M., Mary E., Louisa J. and Jessie L. Burnett is in Council Bluffs; Charles, in business with firm, as Assistant Secretary and Treasurer. Wife died in 1875; married in 1876 to Mrs. Lydia H. Harris, born in Nelson, N. H., daughter of Oliver Heald. She has one son - Edgar C. Member of the Second Presbyterian Church. Is a strong Temperance man, and a Repiiblican.
As printed in History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Joseph K. Russell: George L. Russell (b. 1830) Allen Russell (b. 1833)
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