Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Russell, Lewis March 27, 1849 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

LEWIS RUSSELL, proprietor of the shingle mill on sec. 4, Hinton Tp., is a son 
of Morris and Calista Russell, 

and was born at Glens Falls, Warren Co., N. Y., March 27, 1849.  His parents 
are natives of Canada, where 

they now reside.  At the age of 13 Mr. Russell went to work on a farm, and was 
in the employ of one man 

three years.  His next employment was in a cotton mill in Massachusetts, where 
he remained nearly two years, 

and a part of the time officiated as second forman of the mill.  He went back 
to the Empire State, where he 

pased a year working on a farm, and spent the following year on a farm in 
Vemront.  In 1868 he went to 

Wisconsin, where he commenced his career as a manufacturer of shingles, which 
has since been his vocation.  

After operating four years in the Badger State, in the summer of 1872 he came 
to Montcalm County and there 

remained nine years.  In the summer of 1881 he came to this county and located 
in the township of Martiny, 

where he bought and ran a shingle mill one year.  He removed his works to 
Hinton Tp., in the fall of 1882, 

where he is now operating and employs 13 men.  The daily product of the mill 
is 40,000 shingles.

Mr. Russell was married May 28, 1872, in Greenville, Montcalm Co., to 
Isabella, third daughter of Colin and 

Elizabeth (McCarthy) McIntyre.  Her parents were natives of Scotland and 
settled in Canada, where the 

daughter was born Sept. 23, 1854.  They came to Michigan about 1867, and have 
since died.  Mr. and Mrs. 

Russell have had four children:  Howard H., born March 3, 1873; Winnie L., 
born Aug. 12, 1875; Harry H., 

March 20, 1879, and Bessie L., Sept. 27, 1882.  Mr. Russell is a member of the 
Order of Masonry and in 

politics is a Republican.

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