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History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement..
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821.
Pg. 689, JAMES A. RUSSELL, furniture-dealer and undertaker, Braddock, is the seventh in the family of ten children of WILLIAM RUSSELL, a native of Scotland, who came to America in 1852. Our subject was born in 1840, received a common school education, and at the age of 14 (he was left an orphan at the age of 13) commenced learning cabinet-making, at which he served an apprenticeship of four and a half years. In 1866 he came to Braddock, and commenced in a small way in the furniture business near his present site, and in 1884 he erected the three story 33x90 brick building which he now occupies. In 1862 he married MERCY WILSON, of Westmoreland Co., and five children were born to them, of whom two survive: ROBERT and HELEN. MR. RUSSELL has been justice of the peace two terms; has been auditor of the borough, and was one of the original founders of the Presbyterian Church, of which he is an elder. He is a F. & A. M., in politics a republican.
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