Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Russell, Mathew 1849 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

MATHEW RUSSELL, whose fine farm is located in Columbia Township, Tuscola County,
was born May 7, 1849, in Middletown, Delaware County, N. Y., and is a son of
Alexander C. and Mary J. (Dumond) Russell. Mathew Russell, the grandfather of
our subject, was born in Scotland and was twice married. His first wife bore him
four children, his second three, and all were sons with one exception.

  Alexander C. Russell was not only a farmer, but a carpenter and miller, and he
came to Michigan in the spring of 1869 and settled on section 8, on seventy
acres, which he improved. He resided on the same section until his death, in
1887, and was twice married. The mother of our subject had nine children, all of
whom are still living, namely: Wilson, John, William H., George W.,
Mathew.-Rachel, James T., Robert E. and Elizabeth J. The mother was the daughter
of William Dumond and belonged to a family of Holland extraction.

  An ordinary education was afforded to Mathew Russell until he reached the age
of fourteen, when he began to work for wages, and thus assisted his father to
pay for the farm. At the age of twenty-one he undertook an apprenticeship at the
carpenter's trade and at twenty-three bought forty acres where he now resides,
on section 16. To this he has added by purchase until his property now comprises
seventy acres, which he has cleared and improved. For the past eight years he
has been engaged in digging wells and has devoted himself more to this than to
farming.

  The principles which are expressed in the declarations of the Democratic party
are in the main what Mr. Russell deems most sound, but he is also a member of
the Patrons of Industry and the Farmers' Alliance. He has been twice married,
first on January 27, 1872, to Mary E. Crofoot, daughter of Levi and Sarah (Fish)
Crofoot. Two children were born to this union, Levi A. and William H., and their
mother died in September, 1876.

  The present Mrs. Russell bore the maiden name of Sarah E. Brundage, and she is
the daughter of Isaac and Mary J. (Cook) Brundage, natives of Canada, who came
to Michigan and settled at Unionville in the spring of 1878. Benjamin Brundage,
the grandfather of Mrs. Russell, was born in New York and there devoted himself
to farming. He married Annie Yerkex. He spent some time in California and died
on the train while on the way home from that Western land.

  Two children, who bear the names of Edna J. and Irvine, have been born to Mrs.
Sarah Russell. These children are receiving careful and conscientious training 
and are being brought up in the faith of the Christian religion, as their mother 
is a faithful and devoted member of the Presbyterian Church.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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