Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 863 - 864

ANDREW J. RUSSELL is numbered among the representative business men of the city of Wichita, and is engaged in the grocery business, being one of the firm of Russell Bros., at No. 311 North Main street, where they are doing an extensive business in their line. The subject of this personal memoir is a son of Col. John and Jane (Allen) Russell, and was born in Beaver County, Pa., March 10, 1858. He was but a year old when his parents removed to Livingston County, Ill., where they resided some nine years, after which the family came to Kansas and settled in Osage County. In the common schools so liberally provided in this young and growing State of Kansas, Andrew J. received the elements of a good education, and was reared on a farm, surrounded by all the good influences of his home life. The family finally removed to Wilson County, this State, and thence, in 1874, to this county, where our subject has since remained.

            On the 19th of October, 1884, Mr. Russell led to the marriage altar Miss Ella Daggett, who was born in St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 14, 1868, and is a daughter of William and Sarah (Casson) Daggett, who were also natives of that city. Her father was by profession a school teacher, and died in St. Louis when his daughter, Mrs. Russell, was but an infant. Her mother married again, and is now a resident of Wyoming Territory. To Mr. and Mrs. Russell there have been born two children Gracie, who died in infancy, and Lee S.

            Mr. Russell occupies an important position in the community as an honorable and upright citizen, and possesses the confidence and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. Of a quiet and retiring disposition, remembering the proverb that "silence is golden, while speech is silvern," never obtrusive in his manner, he is, nevertheless, ever willing to give counsel and assistance to those in need. In politics he is a Republican. The Russell family are comfortably located on Fern avenue, in the Fifth Ward of the city.

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