George Robert Russell (1800 - 1866)

Born 5 May 1800 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Parkman (Shaw) Russell — married 1 Dec 1835 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 6 Aug 1866 at age 66 in Manchester, Massachusetts

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Biography

Son of Honourable Jonathan Russell, of Jonathan, of Thomas

Married Sarah Parkman Shaw, daughter of Robert G Shaw of Boston

He graduated at Brown University in 1821, studied law in Philadelphia and returned to Providence to practice his profession, which he soon abandoned. He went to Lima in South America and thence to China and Manila where he founded the house of Russell and Sturgis, which soon became one of the greatest commercial houses in the East. Returning he took up residence at West Roxbury where all his children were born.

He afterwards moved to Jamaica Plain whence he went ot Europe on account of his health and on his return settled in Boston.

Sources

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/u/s/Jean-L-Russell/ODT1-0011.html

• Genealogy of that Branch of the Russell Family which Comprised the ... By John Russell Bartlett

• "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHKZ-CY7 : accessed 29 April 2015), George Robert Russell and Sarah Parkman Shaw, 01 Dec 1835; citing reference v2 p252-253; FHL microfilm 818,095

• "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4LB-RJC : accessed 29 April 2015), George Robert Russell, 05 May 1800; citing Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 751,415
• familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M1LC-1SB