Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Russell, J. M. 1852 - 
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 THE legal profession has a number of able and prominent representatives at
Litchfield, among them being J. M. Russell, county attorney of Meeker county. He is
a native of Clay county, Ind., born on the 13th of February, 1852. His early life
was spent upon a farm attending district school in the winter, and thus continuing
until he was sixteen years old, when he began teaching school in the winter, working
on the farm during the summer. Two years later he purchased his brother’s interest
in the old homestead, his father having died when he was less than three years of
age. After this he worked the farm during the summer, teaching during the winter
months, until he was twenty-three years old, when he sold the stock and farm
implements and for two years attended college at Westfield, Ill. From there, in the
spring of 1877, he came to Meeker county, remaining here one year and teaching two
terms of school. In the spring of 1878, returning to the old home in Indiana, he
worked om the farm with his brother that season and taught school during the
following winter.

   On the 8th of April, 1879, Mr. Russell was married to Miss Julia E. Hays, of Clay
county Ind., and the following day they started for Meeker county, Minn. For a year
he taught school at Cedar Mills, and, on the 14th of September, 1880, he settled at
Litchfield and entered the law office of N. C. Martin for the purpose of fitting
himself for that profession, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1882. He
spent the summer of 1881 upon a claim in Dakota. He sold this in 1883, and having
taken a homestead in the same Territory, that spring, he spent the summer on that,
and still owns the farm. After being admitted to the bar in the fall of 1882 he
formed a law partnership with N. C. Martin under the firm name of Martin & Russell.
This partnership was maintained until the 1st of January, 1887, when it was
dissolved, and since that time Mr. Russell has devoted his attention exclusively to
his profession, as before, but alone in business, .and has built up a lucrative
practice. In 1884 he was elected city attorney and held the office for three
successive terms. In the fall of 1887 he was elected county attorney on the
republican and alliance tickets and assumed the duties of the office on the 1st of
January, 1887. Mr. Russell is an active member of the Christian Church.


Additional Comments:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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