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connected with the business of the cutting and manufacture of lumber both East and West since he was twenty-one years of age, and for the last fifteen years has been a heavy dealer in, as well as user of, lumber. He takes contracts for the entire work and for any building, but has made a specialty of fine suburban residences, building many on his own ac- count for sale. He has built over three hundred houses in Newton, the Unitarian and Congregational churches there, and the Public Library, the High, the William, and the Jackson school-buildings. Among his finest Newton residences are those of George E. Allen, W. H. Rogers, Joshua Baker, Henry Brooks, Henry E. Cobb, and Charles F. Travelli. His own residence on Walnut street is a unique design of the Queen Anne order, built of brick and stones, from his own plans. He is also at the head of the firm of Ross Brothers, agricultural implement and seed dealers in Worcester. He is a prominent citizen in Newton, having served in the city council in 1884 and held several positions of trust. Mr. Ross was married in 1872, in Worcester, to Miss Emma L. Flint, daughter of Austin Flint, a prominent mer- chant of that city ; she died in less than a year after marriage. In 1875 he married for his second wife Miss Cloelia A., daughter of Daniel Sanford, of Ware, Mass.
ROTCH, ARTHUR, architect, famous as the founder of the Rotch Travelling Scholarship, was born in Boston May 13, 1850. He is a graduate of Har- vard, of the class of 1871. After leaving college, he took a two years' course at the Institute of Technol- ogy, from which he went into the office of Mr. Van Brunt. In 1874 he went abroad, where he studied in 1 the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and passed the re- mainder of the time until ISSo in travelling through Europe. While abroad he was chosen to make drawings for the restoration of the Chateau of Chenonseaux, and the work was carried on under his personal direction. Returning to Boston, he formed a partnership with George T. Tilden, under the firm name of Rotch & Tilden. In 1882 Mr. GEORGE H. M. ROWE. Rotch, with the cooperation of his sisters, estab- college at Phillips (Exeter) Academy, and entering Dartmouth graduated therefrom in 1864. He studied medicine with Dr. John S. Butler, of Hart- ford, Conn., and also in the Harvard Medical School, from which he received the degree of M.D. in 1868. In the years 1867, 1868, and 1869 he served as superintendent of the Massachusetts Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, and in 1870 he was apr pointed assistant superintendent of the Boston Lunatic Hospital. He was also assistant physician lished the Rotch Travelling Scholarship, as a memo- rial to the late Benjamin S. Rotch, whereby students chosen by the Boston Society of Architects are sent to Europe for two years for the purpose of travelling and the study of architecture. This is the first scholarship of the kind ever established. The work of the firm of Rotch & Tilden includes some of the most elaborate and beautiful buildings in this vicinity. They have built the Church of the Mes- siah and the Church of the Ascension in Boston, at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane at
Church of the Holy Spirit at Mattapan, Episcopal churches at Chestnut Hill and Wellesley, the Art Museum and Art School at Wellesley College, gym- nasiums at Bowdoin College and Exeter Academy, the Bridgewater Public Library, the American Legion of Honor Building, high schools in Milton and Plymouth, and a large number of private houses and churches in other places. On Commonwealth av- enue, Boston, and Fifth avenue, New York, are many residences designed by them ; also the pala- tial home of Mrs. Zachariah Chandler in Washing- ton, D.C., and the Allan residences in Montreal. Beauty of design and artistic finish characterize all the plans of Messrs. Rotch & Tilden, and their work stands among the best in the country.
ROWE, GEORGE HOWARD MALCOLM, M.D., was born in Lowell Feb. 1, 1841. He fitted for
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Philadelphia. He was elected to his present post tion, that of superintendent and resident physician of the Boston City Hospital, in 1879. Dr. Rowe is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Public Health Association, the New England Psychological Society, the Boston Medico- Psychological Society, the Boston Society for Med- ical Improvement, and other organizations. He has always taken a great interest in matters pertaining to hospital management and construction, and has written many practical essays on these and hygienic topics. He has also by his efforts done much towards the improvement of training-schools for nurses. The Boston City Hospital, under his effi- cient management, stands foremost among similar institutions in this and other countries.
RUSSELL, ARTHUR H., one of the youngest mem- bers of the eminent law-firm of C. T. & T. H. Russell, is a son of Thomas Hastings Russell, and was born in Boston Dec. 1, 1859. After fitting for college he graduated from Amherst in 1881, and then entered the Boston University Law School, finishing his course there with honors in 1884. He became a member of the Suffolk bar in 1883, and was admitted to the above-mentioned firm in the same year, where he has been a valued associate ever since. With the brilliant career of his distin- guished relations as a standard, he has placed his ambitions at a high point, and his efforts have already brought him into prominence among his fellow- citizens. Mr. Russell resides in Winchester, where he has taken an active part in Democratic political circles and has been chosen chairman of the Democratic town committee. Like his father and grandfather, he is an earnest worker in the Congre- gational church, of which he is a member. Mr. Russell was married on Feb. 17, 1885, to Miss Fannie E. Hunt, of Amherst, Mass.
RUSSELL, CHARLES THEODORE, son of Charles and Peris (Hastings) Russell, was born in Princeton, Mass., Nov. 20, 1815. His father was for many years a merchant of that town, and one of its lead- ing citizens. For a generation and more he was town clerk and postmaster, representative to the general court for eight consecutive years, and four years in the senate. He also served for three years in the governor's council. Mr. Russell lived to be nearly ninety years of age, and he is said to have voted for sixty-nine consecutive years at the State election. His ancestors were among the Puri- tan immigrants to Boston about the year 1640. William Russell, the earliest known, lived in Cam-
bridge in 1645, and died there. Mrs. Russell was the daughter of Samuel Hastings, and was de- scended through both her parents from the earliest settlers of Princeton, Thomas Hastings, the first in this country, being descended from a younger brother of the Earl of Huntington. She was in many respects a notable woman, and died in her ninety-third year. " Her retentive memory, even to the end of life, was rich in the history and tradi- tions of the vicinity, which she delighted to rehearse
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to grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her cheerfulness was the quality which most impressed those who loved and honored her. She was not merely cheerful herself, but her beneficent character radiated cheer to all who were brought within her influence." Charles Theodore Russell was fitted for college partly at a small academy in Princeton under the instruction of Rev. Warren Goddard (Harvard University, 1818), and partly with Rev. Mr. Cowles, a graduate of Vale. It was at personal sacrifice on the part of both his parents, says Mr. Russell, that he and his brother were enabled to go through Harvard University, - " a sacrifice which has never ceased to fill us with the most profound gratitude." He ranked among the fore- most scholars in the class, and had the Latin salu- tatory at graduation, and the valedictory oration when he received his master's degree. After leav- ing college Mr. Russell immediately entered upon
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the study of law in the office of Henry H. Fuller, heterodoxy, and was the senior counsel for the profes- sors in the recent hearing of this case before the Su- preme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Mr. Russell was married June 1, 1840, to Sarah Elizabeth, only daughter of Joseph Ballister, a Boston merchant. He has had ten children by this marriage, six daughters and four sons. Three of the daughters died in early infancy. The three surviving daugh- ters are all married. Two of them, Mrs. George H. Bates and Mrs. Ferd L. Gilpin, residing in Wilmington, Del., and the third is the wife of Rev. D. M. Bates, for some time professor in the Episcopal Missionary College of St. John at Shanghai, China, now rector of the church at Clifton Heights, Penn. Of the sons, Charles T., jr., and William E., as has been said, are members of their father's law-firm, and the latter, the youngest son, is now governor of Massachusetts. His second and third sons are in mercantile business, and they all reside in Cambridge. subsequently entered the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He began practice as a partner with Mr. Fuller, remaining with him two years. He then opened an office for himself, and in 1845 entered into a partnership with his brother, under the firm name of C. T. & T. H. Russell, which has continued to the present time. The firm now includes the original partners, two sons of Mr. Russell, - Charles T. Russell, jr., and William E. Russell, - and a son of Thomas Russell, Arthur H. Russell. Up to 1855 Mr. Russell lived in Boston, but since that time he has been a resi- dent of Cambridge. Notwithstanding the demands of a very busy professional life, he has been active in politics and many spheres of usefulness and trust. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature from Boston in 1844, 1845, and 1850, a member of the senate from the Suffolk Dis- trict in 1851 and 1852, and from the county of Middlesex in 1877 and 1878. He was mayor of Cambridge in 1861 and 1862. He has been pro- RUSSELL, CHARLES THEODORE, JR., son of Charles Theodore and Sarah Elizabeth ( Ballister) Russell, was born in Boston April 20, 1851. After a careful education he was graduated from Harvard College in 1873, and the Boston University Law School in 1875. The same year he was admitted to the bar, and has since been in active practice in this city as a member of the firm of C. T. & T. H. Russell. Mr. Russell's career has been brilliant, as indeed has that of all the sons of this remarkable family. In 1884 he was appointed by Governor Robinson a member of the civil-service commission, and in 1889 became chairman of that body. In 1885 he was appointed editor of Contested Election Cases, and still holds that position : he is also one of the examiners for admission to the Suffolk bar. Mr. Russell is an able lawyer, and has displayed marked ability and judgment in conducting the case's that have come into his hands. fessor in the Law School of Boston University from its foundation. He was for many years one of the board of visitors of the Theological School at Andover, and secretary of the board. He is a corporate member of the American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions ; a member of the American Oriental Society; of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association, of which at times he has been vice-president and president, and he delivered the address at its inauguration; of the Society for Promoting Theological Education among the Indians ; of the American College and Educa- tion Society ; president of the Board of Ministerial Aid; and a member of the Massachusetts Bible Society. He has also been president of the Con- gregational Club. Mr. Russell shortly after his graduation wrote a short history of his native town. In 1852 he delivered the fourth of July oration before the city authorities of Boston. In 1859 he delivered the centennial address at Princeton. In RUSSELL, DANIEL, son of Daniel and Mary W. Russell, was born in Providence, R.I., July 16, 1824. He was educated in the public schools of Providence, and at the age of seventeen began real life in his own behalf as a mechanic. For three years he served an apprenticeship at one branch of carriage manufacturing in his native city, and upon graduating from this school he labored in the same place, and at Middleborough, Mass., as journeyman for four years. At the end of this time ( 1847), accompanied by a fellow-workman, he moved to Boston and began the business of selling small wares 1886 he presided over the bi-centennial celebration of the First Church and Parish in Cambridge, and made the opening address. In 1878 he made an argument before the Massachusetts Senate on man- hood suffrage. This was enlarged and repeated before the joint legislative committee in 1879, and then printed. Subsequently, in 1887, it was en- larged still further and addressed as an open letter to the Massachusetts Legislature. He also made the closing argument before the visitors of the Andover Theological School, concerning the five professors of that institution who were accused of by sample. Two years later he determined to go
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to California, but Hon. Nathan Porter offering him employment in Providence, he returned there and remained for two years. Returning again to Boston in 1852, he entered the employ of Edward Locke & Co., clothiers. Three years later he became con- nected with the wholesale clothing-house of Isaac Fenno & Co. Made a member of the firm in 1861, he retired in 1869 with a competency. In 1852 he went to Melrose to reside, and has ever since been closely identified with the welfare of that 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. In 1878 he was elected to the State senate for the Sixth Middlesex Senatorial District, and served in that body as chairman of the commit- tee on insurance, and as a member of the commit- tee on agriculture. He was reëlected in 1879. In 1880 he was a delegate to the national Republican convention. He is a director of the Malden and Melrose Gas Light Company and of the Putnam Woollen Company. He is a Mason and is con- nected with the organizations of the order in Mel- rose. On Oct. 21, 1850, Mr. Russell was married to Miss Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Lynde, of Melrose ; their children are : William Clifton and Daniel Blake Russell.
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RUSSELL, THOMAS HASTINGS, son of Hon. Charles Russell, was born in Princeton, Mass., Oct. 12, 1820. Receiving his preliminary education in Princeton, Westminster, and Cambridge, he entered Harvard College in 1839, graduating in 1843. He read law with his brother, Charles Theodore Rus- sell, and from 1844 to 1845 attended the Harvard Law School, being admitted to the Suffolk bar in the latter year. In September, 1845, in connection with his brother, he formed the law firm of C. T. & T. H. Russell, which continues to the present time, and is one of the best-known and highest-esteemed legal concerns in New England. Their offices, No. 27 State street, have been occupied by them from the very first, and in these modest quarters some of the most noted cases of the Massachusetts bar have been successfully mapped out. In his earlier years Mr. Russell played an important part in politics, and his judgment and clear-sightedness were called upon in political crises. In 1853 and 1854 he was elected on the Whig ticket to the State Legislature, serving with marked .fidelity ; and a year later, 1856, when the Republican party was first organized, he took an active part in its formation in this State. From 1857 to 1859 he was a representative of this party in the State Legislature. In 1862, when the .
People's party was organized, Mr. Russell gave the benefit of his skill and experience to the new cause.
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Of late years he has been less active in politics, and since 1862 has been and now is identified with the Democrats, as he could not conscientiously follow in the footsteps of the party he had assisted in organ- izing. In religious opinions Mr. Russell is a Con- gregationalist, and he has been connected with the management of Phillips (Andover) Academy, being a member of its famous board of visitors for a num- ber of years. Later he resigned to occupy his present office in the board of trustees. He is a member of the Congregational church, and has been treasurer and clerk of the Central Congrega- tional Society for over forty years. Mr. Russell's standing in the legal profession is of the highest, not only as an astute and skilful lawyer, but as a high-minded and estimable citizen. His reputation extends far beyond the limits of his native State. Mr. Russell was married Oct. 6, 1847, to Miss Maria L. Wiswall, a native of Massachusetts. He has had five children : Charles F. Russell, deceased, who left three sons, Thomas H., John A., and Charles Frederick Russell ; Annie I .. , his eldest daughter who is the wife of Arthur G. Stanwood ; Mary L., the wife of Edward Walley ; Alice W., wife of Rev. Henry P. Peck, of West Winsted, Conn. : Arthur H. Russell, the only surviving son, a member of the firm of C. T. & T. H. Russell.
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RUSSELL, WILLIAM EUSTIS, the youngest candidate but one ever elected to the office of chief executive of the State of Massachusetts, is a native of Cam- bridge. He is a son of Hon. Charles Theodore Russell, one of the most eminent lawyers in the State, and was born Jan. 6, 1857. Mr. Russell's career has been remarkable from the first. He was a particularly bright lad, and always stood well in his classes while attending the public schools of Cambridge. In 1873 he entered Harvard, where he was diligent in his studies, yet finding oppor- tunity for athletic sports, in which he took great interest, and with his teachers as well as with his classmates he was a general favorite. He gradu- ated in 1877 and then entered the Law School of Boston University, finishing his course at that insti- tution in 1879 at the head of his class. He won the Lawrence prize for the finest essay, and delivered the class oration at Commencement ; and he re- ceived the first summa cum laude ever given by that law school. In 1880 he was admitted to the Suf- folk bar and began practice in the firm of Messrs. C. T. & T. H. Russell, the well-known attorneys. Mr. Russell soon became interested in politics, as a Democrat; and his clear ideas, expressed in a pleasing oratorical manner, quickly brought him into notice. In 1881 he was elected to the Cam-
aldermen. In 1884 he was elected mayor of Cam- bridge, the youngest man ever chosen to that posi- tion, and for four years he continued in office, displaying marked acumen and executive ability, and meeting the many intricate questions which came before him with judgment and decision that commanded the respect and admiration even of his political opponents. In 1888 he was induced to accept the Democratic nomination for governor, a seemingly hopeless fight in a State that was strongly Republican and having as a rival a popular candi- date. He stumped the State for Cleveland and tariff reform, and reduced the Republican plurality , very materially at the fall election. In 1889 he was again the candidate, making a stalwart fight, and the Republican nominee, ex-Governor Brackett, barely escaped defeat. With that perseverance which had brought him success on other occasions, he again ran for governor in 1890 and was elected by a large majority, although the remainder of the ticket, with one exception, was Republican. In 1891 he was renominated and reelected. Governor Russell is a gentleman of pleasing address, a mag- netic speaker, and displays a maturity of ideas and a knowledge of public affairs far beyond his years. He was offered the nomination of Congressman from the Fifth Congressional District in 1886, but de- clined the honor. He was presiding officer at the convention of Democratic clubs in Baltimore, July 4, 1888. He has been president of the alumni of the Law School of Boston University since 1884, and also president of the Middlesex County Democratic Club. He is a member of the Union Club, Boston. He was married on June 3, 1885, at Cambridge, to Miss Margaret Manning, daughter of the late Rev. Joshua Swan, of Cambridge ; they have two children.
RUST, NATHANIEL J., son of Meshach and Martha (Frost) Rust, was born in Gorham, Me., Nov. 28, 1.833. He was educated in the Gorham Academy of his native town, and when yet a lad began business as clerk in a drug-store in Paris, Me. In 1851 he came to Boston and continued here in the same business, ultimately becoming one of the most prominent men in his line of trade. He is now of the Rust & Richardson Drug Company, and is connected with a number of well-known corporations. He has been president of the Lincoln National Bank since 1885. is president and a director of the Dorchester Gas Light Company, and is a director of the Boston Gas WILLIAM E. RUSSELL. Light Company, the Boston Safe Deposit Company, the Mercantile Loan and Trust Company, the Nep- bridge common council, and for the two years fol- tune Insurance Company, and the Wakefield Rattan lowing he was a member of the Cambridge board of Company. Mr. Rust has also been prominent in
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public life. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature in 1874, 1875, and 1876; a member of the Boston common council of 1878 and 1879 ; and of the board of aldermen in 1891, reelected for the term of 1892. He is also a com- missioner of the sinking-fund. In 1877 and 1878 he served as chairman of the Republican ward and city committee. Mr. Rust was married April 28, 1863, to Miss Martha C. Carter, of Gorham, Me. ; their children are Martha C., Mary Alice, Edgar Carter, and Nathaniel J., jr., Rust.
to a very few to trace an unbroken genealogical line so far back as the family of Mr. Saltonstall: He is in direct descent from Thomas De Saltonstall, of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who lived in the fourteenth century. Through Muriel (Sed- ley) Gurdon, wife of Richard Saltonstall (1610), son of Sir Richard Saltonstall ( 1586) and Grace Kaye, wife of Sir Richard, the descent is had from the oldest families in England and Scotland. The first ancestor in this country was Sir Richard, of Huntwick, knight, lord of the manor of Ledsham, near Leeds, England, who began the settlement of Watertown in 1630, and was original patentee of Massachusetts and Connecticut. His son Richard came to New England in 1630, and settled in Ips- wich in 1635. Mr. Saltonstall's grandfather was Nathaniel Saltonstall, an eminent physician and patriot of Haverhill. Nathaniel's son Leverett (Harvard, 1802), the father of Mr. Saltonstall, was eminent as an advocate, speaker of the House of Representatives, president of the State Senate, member of Congress, A.A.S. and S.H.S., LL.D., Harvard University, and a member of the board of overseers.
SALTONSTALL, LEVERETT, son of Leverett and Mary Elizabeth (Sanders) Saltonstall, was born in Salem March 16, 1825. Having been prepared for college matriculation in the Salem Latin School, he entered Harvard and was gradu- ated therefrom in the class of 1844. Choosing the professsion of law, he continued his legal studies in the Harvard Law School, and was graduated A.M. and LL.B. in 1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, where he continued in active practice until 1862, when he retired and devoted himself to agriculture and the interests of various trusts. From December, 1885, to Feb. 1, 1890, he was collector SAMPSON, WALTER S., was born in Plymouth, Mass., Feb. 22, 1835. He joined the army at the outbreak of customs, port of Boston, to which office he was appointed by President Cleveland. Mr. Saltonstall is a gentleman of liberal culture, and has been repeatedly called to serve in positions of honor and trust - positions demanding much time and con- scientious labor, remunerative chiefly in the con- sciousness of having performed beneficial work. He was a member of the board of overseers of Harvard College from 1876 to 1888, and elected again in 1889 for another term. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and the Bostonian Society. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agricult- ure, and numerous other societies of kindred nature. He was for two years president of the Unitarian Club. In 1854 he was appointed on the staff of Gov. Emory Washburn, with the rank of lieutenant- colonel. In 1876 he was commissioner from Massachusetts to the Centennial Exposition at Phil- adelphia. He was married in Salem Oct. 19, 1854, to Rose S., daughter of John Clarke and Harriet (Rose) Lee; of this union were six children : Leverett Saltonstall, jr. (deceased 1863), Richard Middlecott, Rose Lee (Mrs. Dr. George West, deceased), Phillip Leverett, Mary E. (Mrs. Louis WALTER S. SAMPSON. Agassiz Shaw), and Endicott Peabody Saltonstall. of the Civil War as captain of Company K, Sixth His residence is Chestnut Hill, Newton. It is given Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, which, while
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