HENRY AUSTIN RUSSELL, agent of the United States and Pacific express companies, at Centerville, Iowa, was born near Jefferson, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1851, the youngest of seven sons of James and Sarah Russell, natives of Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestry. In 1861 his parents came to Iowa and settled on a farm near Bloomfield, Davis County, where the mother died in October, 1875, aged seventy years, and the father December 27, 1883, aged eighty-five years. When nineteen years of age our subject went to Little Rock, Arkansas, and taught school in that city about two years, and in 1872 became associated with his brother and others in the mercantile business at Lewisburg, Arkansas, under the firm name, Russell, Mason & Co. In 1875 he retired from the firm, and was employed as bookkeeper by the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Little Rock a year. In 1876 he located in Centerville, where, until 1884, he was in the drug business, and in the meantime he erected the Russell Opera Block, at a cost of $12,000. In politics he is a Republican. He was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian church and is now a member of that denomination. January 16, 1884, he married Ella Rogers, of Jefferson, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Dr. W. D. Rogers. They have one child: Miles Winston, born August 15, 1885. Mr. Russell is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias orders.
HENRY AUSTIN RUSSELL, agent of the United States and Pacific express companies, at Centerville, Iowa, was born near Jefferson, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1851, the youngest of seven sons of James and Sarah Russell, natives of Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestry. In 1861 his parents came to Iowa and settled on a farm near Bloomfield, Davis County, where the mother died in October, 1875, aged seventy years, and the father December 27, 1883, aged eighty-five years. When nineteen years of age our subject went to Little Rock, Arkansas, and taught school in that city about two years, and in 1872 became associated with his brother and others in the mercantile business at Lewisburg, Arkansas, under the firm name, Russell, Mason & Co. In 1875 he retired from the firm, and was employed as bookkeeper by the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Little Rock a year. In 1876 he located in Centerville, where, until 1884, he was in the drug business, and in the meantime he erected the Russell Opera Block, at a cost of $12,000. In politics he is a Republican. He was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian church and is now a member of that denomination. January 16, 1884, he married Ella Rogers, of Jefferson, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Dr. W. D. Rogers. They have one child: Miles Winston, born August 15, 1885. Mr. Russell is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias orders.
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