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Russell, Gilman R. (1822-1874)

Name:
Russell, Gilman R. (1822-1874)
Other Names:
Russell, Gilman Robins
Born:
06/05/1822
Birthplace:
Woodstock, NH
Died:
10/11/1874
Death Location:
Franconia, NH
Residence:
Woodstock, NH, 1822, 1860
Manchester, NH
Gilmanton, NH
Franconia, NH 1823, 1860
Dover, NH 1856
Trenton, NJ 1860
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Artist
Penmanship Teacher
Calligrapher
Father:
Russell, Joseph (1796-1876)
Mother:
Pinkham, Abigial (1799-1890)
Spouse:
Harriet N. Hazelton (1820-1902), December 8, 1842
Children:
Charles P.
Frank H.
Ella
Notes:
Gilman R. Russell traveled across the U.S. teaching penmanship through the 1870s. He also produced a penned lithograph of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Heman Ely, Compiler. Records of the Descendants of Nathaniel Ely, The Immigrant, who settled First in Newtown, Now Cambridge, Mass... (Cleveland, Ohio: Short & forman, 1885), 143.

Ezra S. Stearns, History of Plymouth, New Hampshire. Volume II. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press for the Town of Plymouth, 1906), 598-599.

"Letter from Dover," Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, February 4, 1856, 2.
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