Windham 
 
RUSSELL, Chandler Miller 
 
Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of  
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 345-346  
(portrait p 346) 
 
Chandler Miller RUSSELL, of Wilmington [Vermont], was born 07 December 1842  
in Wilmington [Windham County, Vermont], son of Jordan H. and Harriet L.  
(PARTRIDGE) RUSSELL.  He received his early education in the public schools and  
fitted for college at Wesleyan Academy, graduating in 1865.  In 1862, while  
pursuing his academic course, he returned to his native state and enlisted in  
Company F, Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers, and participated with this regiment in the  
battle of Gettysburg, being mustered out of service 10 August 1863.   
Subsequently he creditably filled the position of principal of the Wilmington high  
school, and in 1867 engaged in mercantile business in that town [Wilmington,  
Vermont], which pursuit he followed until 1878.  Three years later Mr. RUSSELL  
again resumed the profession of teaching, and in 1882 entered the National College  
of Elocution and Oratory at Philadelphia [Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania],  
graduating in 1884.  In connection with Mrs. RUSSELL he then traveled through  
New England and New York, giving public readings, which were received with  
marked favor.  For the last six years Mr. RUSSELL has traveled extensively,  
lecturing upon popular subjects, in which enterprise he has been unusually  
successful. 
 
Mr. [Chandler Miller] RUSSELL is one of the incorporators of the Mount Vernon  
Institute of Elocution and Languages of Philadelphia, and at present holds  
the position of director.  He has held many important local offices, always  
discharging faithfully and conscientiously the trusts reposed in him.  In 1891 was  
elected a councilor of the American Institute of Civics, New York City.  He  
is a frequent contributor to the columns of various newspapers and periodicals,  
and is now collecting material for a history of the Sixteenth Vermont  
Regiment, and with the aid of an excellent private library and his own personal  
endeavor, keeps well informed with regard to all matters of current interest.  For  
nearly thirty years Mr. RUSSELL has been a Free Mason, holding various  
honorable positions in the order, and he is prominent in the Grand Army of the  
Republic.  He is the manager of an extensive insurance business, but still devotes  
some time to filling engagements on the platform.  In June 1877 he [Chandler  
Miller RUSSELL] married Gertrude E., daughter of Lorenzo and Beulah 
(BLANCHARD)  
BOWEN, of Readsboro [Bennington County, Vermont].  Of this union [of Chandler  
Miller and Gertrude E. RUSSELL] one child was born:  Blanche Leone. 
 
Submitted by Cathy Kubly