Windham 
 
RUSSELL, George Kendal 
 
Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of  
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 346 
 
George Kendal RUSSELL, of Bellows Falls [Windham County, Vermont], was born  
11 April 1841 in Cabot [Washington County, Vermont], son of Willard and Abigail  
E. (WARD) RUSSELL.  Having received his early education at the common schools  
and the Franklin Academy (New Hampshire), he moved with his parents to  
Lawrence [Essex County], Massachusetts, and from thence to Exeter [Rockingham  
County], New Hampshire, where he engaged in the manufacture of paper with his  
father, commencing his business career at the early age of seventeen. 
 
In 1861 he [George K. RUSSELL] enlisted in Company E, Fifteenth New Hampshire  
Regiment, and served until that organization was mustered out of service.  In  
1870 he purchased the interest of his father [Willard RUSSELL] in the Exeter  
mill and [George] continued by himself until 1873, when he disposed of the  
property and removed to Bellows Falls, where he again entered into a business  
connection with his father, buying a paper mill which the firm operated until  
until 1879, when the father, selling his interest to his son, the latter [George  
RUSSELL] erected a pulp mill.  Twelve years afterwards he [George] sold this  
to the Fall Mountain Paper Company, and after disposing of his other  
manufacturing property to the Robertson & Coy Paper Company, retired from active  
business life. 
 
[George RUSSELL has always been a] Republican; he has held many official  
positions in the towns of Brentwood [Rockingham County], New Hampshire, and Exeter  
[Rockingham County, New Hampshire], and has also devoted much time to Free  
Masonry, being a member of King Solomon's Lodge No. 45, of Bellows Falls,  
Abenaqui Chapter, and Beauseant Commandery, of Brattleboro [Windham County,  
Vermont], while his name is on the roll of Mt. Kilborn Lodge, K. of H., and E. H.  
Stoughton Post No. 34, Grand Army of the Republic.  On 09 November 1863 Mr.  
[George Kendal] RUSSELL married Annie A., daughter of Mark and Elizabeth 
(FLAGG)  
COLBATH; they have three living children:  Willard T., Lizzie W., and Grace L. 
 
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