Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Russelll, Charles S. 1860 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com May 6, 2009, 7:51 pm Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company CHARLES S. RUSSELL. Among the men who are making history in the Pacific northwest is numbered Charles S. Russell, of Portland, who has won notable success in the lumber industry, and in the conduct of his business brings to bear the knowledge and wisdom resulting from the experience of nearly a half century in this field of activity. A native of Memphis, Michigan, he was born in 1860 and his parents were the Rev. William A. and Elizabeth (Prall) Russell, the former a Congregational minister. Charles S. Russell was reared in the Wolverine state and received a public school education. For five years he worked for the Detroit Free Press, filling the position of a reporter and also in the business departments for the paper. It was in 1880 that he obtained his start in the lumber business, entering the employ of Henry Stephens & Company, a northern Michigan firm, with which he was identified for twenty-three years. During that period he became an important factor in the management of the business, taking charge of the lumber operations of the corporation, and was also elected secretary and treasurer. In 1903 he allied his interests with those of Portland and embarked in the wholesale lumber business in association with Fred C. Ross and Charles E. Dant, operating under the style of Fred C. Ross & Company. At the end of two years Mr. Ross withdrew from the partnership and the business has since been conducted under the name of Dant & Russell. The members of this firm also organized the Russell-Dant Company, which is a timber-holding corporation. Dant & Russell have contracts with various mills and export over three hundred and fifty million feet of lumber per year. They ship their output to all parts of the world and are the largest individual exporters of lumber on the Pacific coast. In addition they own and operate a fleet of steamboats and this branch of the business is controlled by the Columbia-Pacific Shipping Company. Mr. Russell is president of the firm of Dant & Russell and a recognized authority on matters pertaining to the lumber industry. A business man of exceptional acumen and ability, he has left the strong impress of his individuality upon his work and is also connected with financial affairs, serving on the directorate of the United States National Bank of Portland. In I8S5 Mr. Russell married Miss May Shoup, now deceased, who became the mother of a son, William S. He is associated in business with his father and has a wife and one child, W. N. The second union of Charles S. Russell was with Mrs. Beulah Stevens, to whom he was married November 25, 1927. Mr. Russell is a republican and conscientiously discharges the duties and obligations of citizenship but has never aspired to office. In Masonry he holds the thirty-second degree and is also connected with the Knights of Pythias, the Chamber of Commerce, the Arlington Club, the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club and the Multnomah Country Club. Mr. Russell has progressed through the medium of his own efforts and is admired for his talents and respected for his integrity and firmness of character. Additional Comments: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Pages 616-617 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/russelll577gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb