WI BIO - Wood Co - RUSSELL, John H.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1212

John H. RUSSELL, engineer, Marshfield [Wood County, Wisconsin], was born 01 
February 1833 in Canada . In 1834 his father moved to Clarence Hollow, Erie 
County, New York, where they lived until 1845, when they removed to 
Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York, then to Milton, Rock County, 
[Territory or State of?] Wisconsin, in 1848 [Wisconsin became a State 29 May 
1848]; lived there three years, then moved to Dakota, Waushara County 
[Wisconsin].

At the age of twenty-three he learned engineering. He has followed this 
business at Madison [Dane County] and Milwaukee [Milwaukee County]. In 1877 
he went to farming in Clark County [Wisconsin], which he followed for four 
years, and in the fall of 1880 he came to Marshfield as engineer for Upham & 
Brothers.

On 02 April 1858 John H. RUSSELL was married to Miss Mary Ann REIFSNIDER. 
They [John H. and Mary Ann (REIFSNIDER) RUSSELL] have seven children: Fred, 
Mary, John, Hilda, Jessie, Vincie and Neva.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly