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Subject: [BUTLER-L] Obit JAMES BARTLETT RUSSELL b. 1850 Lowell, MA.
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 17:33:21 EDT

Note: Grandson of JAMES RUSSELL, 111, and MARY BUTLER.

Obituary - sent by POLLARD MEMORIAL LIBRARY on May 10, 2003.
NAME OF PAPER UNKNOWN, looks like page one, date of article unknown -
estimate it as 1935-6. (article incomplete)

DEATH HERE OF
JAS. B. RUSSELL
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One of Lowell's Best Known Residents Dies at Hospital
at Age of 86 years
(Large photograph entitled JAMES B. RUSSELL)
James B. Russell, one of the city's best known residents and a close
associate of General Benjamin Butler in the powder and manufacturing
interests in this city for many years, died today at the Lowell General
hospital, where he had been confined for the past week. He was 86 years of
age.
While Mr. Russell was widely known throughout the city, he was best known in
the Belvidere section, where he was born on June 5, 1850, and where he lived
all of his life.
"Jim," as he was best known to friends and business associates, was one of
the first Lowellites to learn the game of baseball and always retained his
interest in it. He was a prominent member of St. Anne's Episcopal church.
A patron of the arts, a clever pen and ink sketcher and a lover of music,
time never lagged in Mr. Russell's life, for his interests were so many and
so varied that he never wanted for something to do.
James Bartlett Russell was born on June 5, 1850, at 59 Nesmith street, where
he lived all of his life, the son of James Sullivan Russell and Elizabeth
Chapin Russell.
Belvidere park close by, was known as Shepard's garden at the time and
boarded the extensive land holdings of the late Col. John Nesmith. It was in
Shepard's garden that "Jim," as a boy, learned to play baseball when it was
first introduced to Lowell from Phillips-Andover academy, about the time of
the Civil war.
He cherished those memories and was proud of his position as one of the
pioneers in the national game.
After graduating with one of the earliest Lowell high school classes in 1866,
he entered Massachusetts
(continued on page three)
Page three
DEATH HERE OF JAS. B. RUSSELL
continued
Institute of Technology but left in his sophomore year to enter the old
Prescott bank, then located on Central street opposite Middle street. He
progressed rapidly during his five years of service there and in 1872 entered
the employ of a cotton brokerage house in Boston. The year 1873 was marked by
a severe depression, however, and he lost his employment as an accountant
there. Later he found work with the James B. Harley print works at the
Lowell Bleachery, but was there less than a year when a position was offered
him under General Butler at the outer Lawrence street plant which later
(article missing this history)
continues later......
Potter of West Newton, a nephew Stanley B. Potter, sub-treasurer of the
Suncook Mfg., Co., Suncook, N.H.

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