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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    REV. GEORGE BRYANT RUSSELL, was born in Cherokee County, Ala., May 11, 1846,
and is a son of Rev. Samuel R. (born in Virginia, January 22, 1801) and Nancy
Ann (Gamble) Russell, native of Fast Tennessee.

    The senior Mr. Russell was a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
He came to Alabama in 1832 and settled near Jacksonville. He reared eight sons
and two daughters: James E., Robert A., Samuel L., John G., William C., George
B., Andrew B., Marcus M., Elizabeth A. and Mary J. Of the sons the following
served in the war: James E., Samuel L. (lieutenant and chaplain), John G.
(orderly sergeant, was killed at Chickamauga), and William C. (was killed at
Shiloh). The senior Mr. Russell died September 30, 1876, at the age of
seventy-five years; his wife died at the close of the war at the age of
sixty-two years. The Russell family were of Scotch-Irish parentage, and the
Gamble family came originally from Ireland.

    George Bryant Russell was reared on a farm; attended the common schools of
the neighborhood, and was graduated at Galesville, Ala., in 1873. He
subsequently spent two years at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., and in
1874 began teaching. In 1877 he migrated to Cross Plains, where he was occupied
teaching and farming until 1881, when he moved to Jacksonville and taught one
year as Assistant Principal of Calhoun College. On his return to Cross Plains he
took charge of the Cross Plains Educational Institute, which was soon afterwards
chartered.

    Mr. Russell having received his license to preach September 10, 1870, and
being ordained September 22, 1873, is now a preacher in the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. He has represented his Presbytery in the General Assembly
several times; has served Calhoun County as Superintendent of Education twelve
years, and is at present second Vice-President of the Alabama Educational
Association.

    Mr. Russell was married September 23, 1873, to Sarah A. Hampton, daughter of
John Hampton, of Cherokee County. Ala. They have had born to them three
children, namely: Samuel Hampton, deceased, John Floyd and James Gordon. Mr.
Russell is a member of the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Honor. He has ever
been a temperance worker; was elected by the County Temperance Convention in
1880 to the State Convention, and was of Committee on Resolutions in that
convention. He was elected President of the County Temperance Convention at
Anniston in 1886.

    Our subject bears the reputation of being one of the best educators in the
State.


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Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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