Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Russell, William Harrison 1841 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

WILLIAM HARRISON RUSSELL

WILLIAM HARRISON RUSSELL was born April 20, 1841, in the State of Indiana and is
one of the really old timers of Barton County, having come here in 1874, during
the month of September. He first located in Beaver township about a mile south
of the county line. He remained there until 1901 when he moved to his present
home place in South Bend township about eight miles south and west of the City
of Great Bend. Mr. Russell enlisted in Co. E, 94th Illinois Infantry August 7,
1862, and served throughout the war. He was engaged in the battle of Vicksburg,
and was with Grant all the way down the Mississippi, and took part in the Mobile
campaign, one of the severest of the war. He can tell many interesting
reminiscenses of the big conflict and has a soldier's record of which he can be
justly proud. He was married in McLean County, Illinois, to Miss Mary Newton in
1868 and they are the parents of three children: Ira, 40 years of age, who is
now bookkeeper for the Butcher Packing Co., of Salina, Kansas. Ray, 26 years of
age, who is one of the best known veterinarians in this section of the state.
His office being in Great Bend where he with Dr. Cheney have one of the most
up-to-date animal hospitals in this section of the country. Guy, who is 12 years
of age, assists his father in the work of operating the farm. The home place
consists of 160 acres of land in addition to which Mr. Russell owns a half
section of good land in Ford County. On the home place is found a well built,
commodious seven room house, a good barn and all the needed outbuildings that
are usually found on the modernly equipped farms of Barton County. Mr. Russell
came here at a time when it required nerve for the residents to stay and fight
it out with the elements which seemed to make it harder and harder every year.
It is to such men as Mr. Russell that Barton County owes her present high
standing among the leading agricultural sections of the world. He has always
been a progressive citizen and has seen this county grow from an almost barren
waste to its present high state of cultivation.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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