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ARNOLD RUSSELL, engineer, Meadville, is an old and well-tried railroad man, having served the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad for twenty-one years, and during all that time has never been called to the Superintendent’s office for any misdemeanor or for any accident. He was born at Honesdale, Wayne Co., Penn., October 23, 1845, and is a son of Gaylord and Esther (Walton) Russell, of German and Irish descent. His father, who was a farmer, raised a family of six children, of whom Arnold is the fourth. Our subject received his education in his native county; in his eighteenth year he went on the railroad as fireman, and was running an engine before he reached his majority. For several years he ran a construction train on which he was both engineer and conductor. Since 1865 he has been first-class engineer on passenger trains. He is always prompt and ready for duty, and in twenty-one years has never missed a pay-day. He was married in 1866 to Miss Nancy, daughter of William Adams, a native of this county and of English descent. Their children are: Lizzie, Mabel, William Henry and Robert Stanley. Mrs. Russell is a member of the Park Avenue Congregational Church. In politics he is Independent. During the war he enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment, but it was not called into active service. He is a prudent man and carries an insurance of $7,000 on his life. He is also owner of a farm of ninety acres in Hayfield Township, this county. He is a member of Knights of Pythias, the A. O. U. W., and of the American Legion of Honor. History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 767. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com. Free access More Crawford County History Books Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors. View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com .
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