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Russell, E. F., Massena, was born in Massena, st 11, 1862, whose father, N. T., was also born here January 25,
1833. He was a son of John, a native of Vermont, born in 1785. The latter was three times married, his first wife
being Sarah Wilcox, by whom he had two children; his second wife was Lucy, sister of his first wife, and by her
he had four children; his third wife was Naomi Horton, born in 1796, by whom he had a son and a daughter. In 1832
he came to Massena and settled on the farm now owned by his son Norman T., where he died in 1865, his wife having
died in 1873. N. T. Russell has followed farming most of his life, hut in 1877 he engaged in the meat business
in partnership with D. Hamilton and W. R. Stearns, they being the first to keep a market open the year around in
Massena. In 1854 he married Philena F. Hutchinson, of Jefferson county, by whom he had three children: Ida, wife
of J. B. Dodge; Clara M., a teacher in Albany College; and Edson F., who was educated in the Massena Union School
and the Potsdam Normal School. He was for a few years engaged in school teaching, then bought the Massena Center
Creamery, which he has remodeled and refitted. He is now doing a thriving business, making about 100,000 pounds
of butter annually. He at first operated the creamery summers and taught school winters, but now conducts it the
year around. He is also engaged in the grocery business at the Center, carrying a general line of groceries. June
21, 1880, he married Dora E., daughter of J. B. Baily, of Masscna, by whom he has had four children: Bessie P.,
born March 13, 1883; Leon N., born February 26, 1887; Lou D., born June 28, 1891; Lela E., born November 13, 1893.
Our subject is a Republican, and a member of Massena Lodge No. 513, F. & A. M., Massena Grange No. 704, Good
Templers, and I. O. F.
FROM:
Our County and it's people
A memorial record of St. Lawrence County, New York
Edited by: Gates Curtis
The Boston History Co., Publishers 1894
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