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Notes for DANIEL RUSSELL: Daniel and Phebe bought land in Southfield Twp., Oakland Co. where they established a farm and were involved in the founding of the town.
According to a biographical sketch of prominent people in Oakland County, MI, he came to the Southfield area with his parents when he was nine years old. He started school at the age of 3 on Long Island and continued his education in the log schoolhouses of the day in Michigan. According to the sketch, he remained at home until he married PHOEBE STEPHENS in 1851.
Phebe (or Phoebe depending on the source) was born on March 18, 1824 (according to her tombstone) & was the daughter of "Capt" Edward Stephens & Phoebe Tuthill. Both the Stephens & Tuthill families had lived in the Long Island area for many, many years and had played a part in the early history of Long Island.
Daniel & Phoebe lived in Southfield Twp in Oakland County, MI and he is listed as being a farmer in the area. They had 6 children, 2 of whom died in infancy.
Portrait and Biographical Album of Oakland County, Michigan, 1891, page 677:
DANIEL RUSSELL, who resides on section 15, Southfield Township, was born on Long Island, N. Y., March 29, 1823. His father, Stephen, was born in 1797, and grew up on Long Island to become a farmer and fisherman. He came to Southfield Township in 1854, when it was all woods. There was a log house on the place. He cleared the farm and in 1870 went to Adrian and bought a farm of forty acres two miles from the city. Iere lie lived for two years, and then sold the property and moved into Adrian. After four years' residence there he removed to Detroit, where he died in 1886. His father, Daniel, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. At the age of seventy-five years he made a visit to Michigan and walked from Detroit to Southfield. He was also a farmer and a fisherman, and was the son of an Englishman.
The mother of our subject, Sarah Raynor, the daughter of Jotham Raynor, a Revolutionary soldier, was born in 1803, and reared upon Long Island. She was the mother of ten children, all of whom grew to maturity, and seven of them still survive: Emeline, deceased; Daniel, our subject; James and Jerusha, deceased; Anna, Mrs. John Cornelius, Stephen, Sarah, Mary F., William H.; and Phoebe, Mrs. Joseph Staford. Sarah Russell has taught school since she was fourteen years old, and she now resides in Chicago, as does also her sister, Mary F.; William is a lawyer and President of a bank in Omaha.
Daniel Russell came to Michigan with his parents when he was nine years old. He commenced going to school on Long Island when he was three years of age, and after coming to Michigan went on with his education in the log schoolhouses of the day. He remained at home until he was married, in 1851, to Phcebe Stephens, a daughter of Capt. Edward Stephens. She was born on Long Island in 1821, and was the fifth of six brothers and sisters.
Our subject and his wife are the parents of six children. Two died in infancy. Those living are named: Jennie V., the wife of Ed Casson; Harry M., who resides in Birmingham; Wilmina, Mrs. James McKinley; and Jerry H., who married Mamie Young. The Cassons have three children. Harry is the father of four little ones, and the McKinleys have two daughters.
Mr. Russell is well known in the county as an earnest Republican, and yet in local matters he votes for the best man for the place regardless of politics. He is an active and efficient member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he acts as Deacon. His good wife, who was also a member of this church, was snatched away by death in 1887.
Mr. Russell at one time owned two hundred acres of land, but has sold all except eighty acres. He does little work now, but relegates most of his active duties to his son, Jerry. He is deeply interested in all plans to promote the welfare of the community and is a generous giver to all good causes.
Children
1. JOSEPHINE MAY RUSSELL, b. May 21, 1854; d. December 30, 1857.
2. JAMES MADISON RUSSELL, b. June 03, 1855; d. December 14, 1857.
3. JEREMIAH RUSSELL, b. May 01, 1856; d. December 10, 1857.
4. GENEVIEVE H. RUSSELL, b. June 15, 1857, Southfield Twp., Oakland Co., MI; d. June 15, 1937, Probably Philadelphia, PA; m. EDWARD W CASSON, March 13, 1884; b. Abt. 1858, Michigan.
5. HARRY MONFORD RUSSELL, b. July 31, 1860, Southfield Twp., Oakland Co., MI; d. December 22, 1949, Howell, Livingston Co., MI.
6. WILHELMINA RUSSELL, b. May 12, 1863; m. JAMES MCKINLEY; b. Abt. 1857.
7. GERALD HALSEY RUSSELL, b. August 17, 1865; m. MARY A YOUNG; b. March 05, 1868. |
