Biographical Sketch of H. A. Russell, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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H. A. Russell, general agent for the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Rail-
way Company, was born in Akron, Ohio, August 30, 1840, and was there
reared until he attained his fifteenth year, when his father, H. F.
Russell, who was a miller, removed to Monmouth, Illinois.  There he 
engaged in the milling business.  The senior Russell was among the
early settlers of the Buckeye State, locating there in 1822.  The 
subject of this sketch at the breaking out of the rebellion tendered
his services to the Union cause, enlisting in Company F, Seventeenth
Illinois Volunteer Infantry.  The greater portion of the time he was
on detached service; was special postal agent at General Grant's head-
quarters, and had charge of eastern military mail for a division of 
the Mississippi.  He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson,
Shiloh, and other notable engagements; was honorably discharged in
1864.  Returning to Illinois, he engaged in the milling business with
his father, continuing until 1867, when he came to Kansas City, and,
until 1869, was book keeper for the Novelty Milling Co.  After this,
he was in the employ of his present company, then known as the North
Missouri Railroad.  On July 1, 1875, he was stationed at St. Joseph.
Mr. Russell has a host of friends in this city, and among the masses
of the traveling public.  He was married, in 1869, to Miss Agnes R.
Anderson, a native of Ohio.  They have four children:  Maggie, George,
Frank and Fred.  He is a Mason, and a member of the I.O.U.W.

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