OBIT: George B. RUSSELL, 1908, formerly of Lebanon County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Nancy Lorz

Copyright 2006.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/lebanon/
_______________________________________________  

EX-COLLEGE PRESIDENT DEAD

   Rev. George B. Russell, D.D., died at his home in Waynesboro, Pa., on 
Sunday, death having been due to infirmities of old age.  Dr. Russell was 
active the greater part of his life in educational work of the Reformed 
Church and for two years he served as president of Palatinate College, now 
Albright College, this place.  He graduated from Marshall College in 1849 
and from the Seminary in 1853.  For years he edited a number of church 
papers and was the founder of the first Sunday School paper.  Dr. Russell 
was born August 18, 1824.

Myerstown Enterprise, January 10, 1908