The Russell Family

* John Hazen Russell

(wife's name was Anna Wood)

  John Leslie Russell                               Thomas Victor Russell

   (married Mary Sybil Wead)                                                    (married Lucia L Conkey)

   (see 1850 Canton Census for other children)                     (Canton 1850 Census living Thomas Conkey family)

  Leslie Wead Russell                 Charles Hazen Russell            Benjamin Russell

 (married Harriett Jane Lawrence)       (married Stella May Goodrich)   (m Natalie Waterbury)                                                              (married Annah Ayres Linquist)

                                                                                    ( Customs House NY)                                                                                                                    

Lawrence Russell      Robert Russell                         Mrs (Annie R)  William R Stearns

(married Mabel Bostwick)  (married Bernice Tunny)                                                                 (Brookline Ma)

       other siblings incl:                               

     - Mary Lawrence Russell d 1870 -7 mo

      - John Leslie Russell d 1868  2 yrs 8 mo

      - Jessie F Russell m Clifford Hartridge d 1895

      - Lady Harriett Neigle Campbell

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1790 Fairfax Vt Census:

Thomas, Esqr.    RUSSELL    :    2    *    0    *    3    *    0    *    0    *    (p. 160)  (assume related)

The Early Years of Fairfax, Vt:

http://www.vtgrandpa.com/fhs/levick.html

The Spaffords located on the banks of the Lamoille, in the southeastern part of the town. During the following year, they were joined by Robert and Jose Barnet and, in 1786, by Thomas Russell, they all being related to each other.

At the first town meeting, 1787, Capt. Spafford was elected moderator; Thomas Russell, town clerk; Nathan Spafford, constable, and Broadstreet Spafford, Robert Barnet and Thomas Russell, selectmen.

Spafford Cemetery, Fairfax Vt:  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/9445/Spafford.html

1820 Malone Census  - John (Hazen or Hancock) Russell:

Malone Marriages - Russells: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ny/franklin/churches/congregational/parmelee.txt

Russell, Amina                       Nov. 5, 1818            Mason Wilcox                     both of Malone

Russell, Chester                     Mar. 5, 1812           Abigail Whipple                  both of Malone

Russell, Elmina                      Oct. 5, 1831           Elihu Foote                      he was a farmer from Madrid in St. Lawrence Co. age 23; she was a cook from Malone ae 18.  Witnesses:  Calvin Russell, Abigail Russell, Chester Russell and Luther Chipman

Russell, John L.                     Oct. 17, 1832          Mary Wead                        he was from Canton, NY age 28; she was from Malone age 20.  Witnesses:  Jacob Wead, Hiram Horton, Adeline Horton, and Betsey Parmelee

Russell, Julia                       Feb. 9, 1838           William Merriam                  he was a farmer from Malone age 27; she was the 23 yr old daughter of Calvin Russell of Westville. Married in Westville before witnesses:  Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Russell and three children

Russell, Nathaniel E.                Nov. 28, 1839          Harriet Howard                   he was a farmer from Westville age 22; she was a spinner from Westville age 23.  Witnesses:  Mr. and Mrs, Howard, parents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Russell parents of the groom and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Russell

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Amanda Russell b 1806, d Sept 17, 1865 married Carlos Keeler.  She was the dau of John H Russell.  "Keeler, Carlos - Apr. 8, 1828 Mary Smith both of Malone  (he died Aug. 23, 1867 ae 59 and is buried in Webster St. Cemetery in Malone.  He re-married a woman named Amanda who died Sep. 17, 1865 ae 59)"  from http://files.usgwarchives.org/ny/franklin/churches/congregational/parmelee.txt

We know that Thomas Victor Russell, from his Obit below, was "was a familiar figure in the law offices of his sister's son, Hon John C Keeler.

Malone Births:  Keeler, Clarence Russell   b   Aug. 17, 1847 Carlos C. Keeler   - mother Amanda  - died Aug. 29, 1849  from
http://files.usgwarchives.org/ny/franklin/vitals/births/malonebir.txt

                      

Canton Evergreen Cemetery from Anne Cady's Web Site:

Russell (See also: Knox)
Lawrence Russell, July 27, 1867 - March 17, 1938 (Section D)
Mabel Bostwick Russell, Oct 31, 1868 - Dec 8, 1930 (Section D)

Thomas Victor Russell, 1817-1893 (Section F)

Russell Monument, (Section B)
Leslie W Russell, April 15, 1840 - Feb 3, 1903 (Section B)
John Leslie Russell, d. April 19, 1861 AE 56 yrs (Section B)
Mary Sybil Wead Russell, Wife of John Leslie Russell, d. May 24, 1870 AE 57 yrs (Section B)
Jessie Russell Hartridge, Nov 9, 1873 - July 13, 1908 (Section B)
John Leslie Russell, d. Aug 6, 1868 AE 2 yrs, 8 mos ;Back of Stone (Section B)
Mary Lawrence Russell, d. April 21, 1870 AE 7 mos ;Back of Stone (Section B)
Leslie Russell, Baby Leslie; June 24, 1879 - July 12, 1879 ;Baby Leslie (Section B)
 

Ferry (See also: Appleton)
Mary Russell Ferry, June 26, 18897 ;Close-up (Section F)
Moses Jared Ferry, June 29, 1814 - June 21, 1878 (Section F)

Malone Maplewood Cemetery: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~frgen/franklin/malone/maplewood/maplewood.htm

RUSSELL   (Row 13-G)
Benjamin RUSSELL   Died Aug. 22, 1824   Aged 69 Years

RUSSELL   (Row 12-B)
F. E. RUSSELL   Died Feb. 12, 1874   AE 46 Y'rs.

RUSSELL   (Row 2-D)
Orpha L.   daughter of N. E. & H. RUSSELL   Died Oct. 12, 1850   Aged 2 years 2 mo's & 5 days.

RUSSELL   (Row 1-BB)
Alfred C.   Died Apr. 10, 1851   Aged 6 months
Ella T.   Died Oct. 21, 1855   Aged 6 y'rs. & 5 mo's.
Children of E. C. & H. M. RUSSELL

RUSSELL    (Row 3-J)
(front)
Chester RUSSELL   Died Oct. 22, 1886   AE 78 Yrs.
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(side)
Carah A.   Wife of Chester RUSSELL   Died Dec. 18, 1858   AE 48 Yrs.
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(side)
Dexter E. RUSSELL   Died Feb. 27, 1885   AE 29 Yrs.
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(back)
Alvin H. RUSSELL   Died Oct. 19, 1864   AE 28 Yrs.

Malone Webster Street Cemetery:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~frgen/franklin/malone/webster.htm

                                     Anna Wood Russell - 1833 - 50 = 1783 birth year

1850 Canton Census John L(Leslie) Russell, 49?  Lawyer b Vt, Mary S 38 b NY, Adaline Amanda (she marries William Wallace Pratt, lawyer, son of Nathan Pratt and moves to Kansas City, Missouri) 16, Mary Jane (she marries Watson Jared Ferry and moves to KC with Sybil & Wallace)12, Leslie m 10 (marries Harriett Jane Lawrence), Sybil Estelle ( she marries engineer Virgil Bogue)4,  Mary Elliott 45 b England, Ellen McCormic?22 ,John H Russell 74 b NH?  (1850 - 74 = 1776 birth year. Wife above, Anna, buried in Malone)

Thomas H (Hamilton) Conkey 60 Farmer (son of Asa Conkey) b Ma, Sylvia (Ames) 56, James 26 - Merchant, Mary 23,  Thomas V Russell 33 Lawyer, Lucia L Conkey Russell 29, Charles Russell 4 (marries Stella May Goodrich), Anna Russell 2 (Mrs. William Stearns), Benjamin Russell 1, Sarah Norris 15     see Conkey page     and

1860 Canton Census:   pg 199 family 419 - Jno. L. Russell 55, Lawyer Vt, Mary J 47 Vt, Mary 22, Sybil 15, Mary O'Brian 22 Domestic Ireland, Jno. Gallovan 16 day laborer Ireland 

1860 Census for Canton: pg 225, family 593 - Thomas Russell 43 Lawyer NY, Lucia L 35, Charles 14, Anna 13, Benj. 12, Cath. McNulty 30.  

From Child's Gazetter:  Anna Russell born Feb 11,1847 parents Thomas V & Lucia L.  Mercy F died 11 months old of dysentery Sept 27, 1849

1849 Death: 

1870 Canton Census(PO Morley): Leslie W 30 yrs b NY, Lawyer, Harriett J 26 born NH, Lawrence 3 b Ma, Sybil E 33(year could be typo) Teacher b NY

Watson J Ferry(27)  & Mary Russell (31) living next door.

1880 Canton Census:

Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace  Leslie W. RUSSELL   Self   M   Male   W   40   NY   Lawyer County Judge   VT   NY   Harriet J. RUSSELL   Wife   M   Female   W   36   NH   House Keeper   NY   VT   Lawrence RUSSELL   Son   S   Male   W   12   MA   At School   NY   NY   Jenie RUSSELL   Dau   S   Female   W   6   NY   At School   NY   MA   Robert RUSSELL   Son   S   Male   W   3   NY      NY   MA   Kittie MULVORNA   Other   S   Female   W   24   NY   Domestic Servant   IRE   IRE   Annie REYNOLDS   Other   S   Female   W   19   NY   Domestic Servant   IRE   IRE   Edward ROWAN   Other   S   Male   W   25   NY   Coachman   IRE   IRE

John Hazen Russell:

Plattsburgh Republican 1812:

Plattsburgh Republican 1813:

Plattsburgh Republican 1813 or 1818:

St.Lawrence Plaindealer 1931:

Tupper Lake Free Press Dec 18, 1958:

Ogdensburg News March 23, 1902:

St Lawrence Plaindealer 1951:

John Leslie Russell:

Canton Republican & Advertiser 1829 (St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1935):

from History of St. Lawrence County - Everts 1878:

St. Lawrence Republican 1845:

Essex County Republican July 1, 1848:

John Leslie Russell mentioned in article about Hiram Horton - Chateaugay Record, 1934:

St Lawrence Plaindealer October 25, 1948  (about 1847:) Notifying Pliny Wright about the death of Silas Wright

Franklin Gazette June 11, 1853:

Buffalo Courier 1856:

Brooklyn Eagle Dec 5, 1856:

Apparently in 1856 John Leslie also ran for  Lt. Governor.  Here we have some election results from the Albany NY Evening Journal:

Apparently in 1856 John Leslie also ran for  Governor.  Here we have some election results from the Albany NY Evening Journal:

Ogdensburg Advance 1861:

Thomas Victor Russell:

From Stan Maine re: Thomas Victor Russell joining the 60th NY Infantry in the Civil War:

Thomas V Russell was age 41 and enlisted (I guess not drafted)  at NY City to serve three years as a private in Co A. Nov 17, 1864  So, I don't know when he joined the regiment.  The regiment was marching to Savannah about that time.  He may have joined them in Savannah in late Dec.  He could have participated with the regiment in it's march North through the Carolinas.   He mustered out 17 Jul 1865 with the rest of the Company .   I think that they mustered out at Alexandria ,Virginia.  There is a Victor Russell also listed in the Adjutant General's Report But with no extra info ( has the same info) and I believe this is the same person.   I think that the only place you would find any more info on his service would be the National Archives

St. Lawrence Plaindealer aug 4, 1859:

Canton Plaindealer 1864 (Thomas V Russell):

On this 1858 Map of Canton, TV Russell's home is on Miner Street.  This map is damaged by age so you can barely see his name.  It is towards the bottom center of the page.

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Nov 6 1934 - Canada's Patriot Rebellion  - Letter from Thomas Victor Russell to his father John Leslie Russell - letter dated November 18, 1838:

The Malone Gazette Jan 20, 1893:

1893 Franklin Gazette:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1893 (Thomas Victor Russell):

     For information on the James Eldridge Murder click here: 

Leslie Wead Russell:

From Infoplease:

RUSSELL, Leslie W.

(1840—1903)

RUSSELL, Leslie W., a Representative from New York; born in Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., April 15, 1840; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Canton; delegate to the State constitutional convention of 1867; district attorney of St. Lawrence County in 1869; member of the board of regents of the University of the State of New York 1878-1891; county judge of St. Lawrence County 1877-1881; attorney general of New York 1881-1883; practiced law in New York City 1883-1891; elected to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, to September 11, 1891, when he resigned, having been elected justice of the supreme court of the State of New York; resigned as justice on October 1, 1902; died in New York City on February 3, 1903; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Canton, N.Y. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present

Canton Plaindealer 1860 (Leslie Wead Russell):

Alpha Tau Omega 1912 - once home of Leslie Wead Russell (prior to that, owned by Jonas Conkey)

Plaindealer 1951:

Brooklyn Eagle - Aug 6, 1891:

Brooklyn Eagle - Dec 3, 1883:

Potsdam St Lawrence Herald 1897:

Brooklyn Eagle - April 1, 1902:

Brooklyn Eagle - Dec 2, 1902:

Grave - Leslie W Russell - Evergreen Cemetery, Canton NY:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=641124&GRid=7647533&CScnty=2022&CSsr=41&

Ogdensburg Journal July 26, 1912:

Plaindealer 1931:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1943 &1941 &1951:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1942:

Malone - Franklin Gazette 1892

Malone - Franklin Gazette 1894:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1951:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer April 30, 1890:

(Leslie Wead Russell and his father John Leslie Russell)

St. Lawrence Plaindealer August 23, 1932:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Feb 11,1903:

Amsterdam Evening Recorder Feb 4, 1903:

Plaindealer 1930 (looking back 25 years - 1905) (Harriett Russell Campbell)

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Oct 8, 1907(Jessie Russell Hartridge):

Ogdensburg News Oct 24, 1907:

Ogdensburg News 1908:

Courier Freeman July 22, 1908:

Courier Freeman 1837:

Harriett Jane Lawrence Russell:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer November 24, 1931

:

Mary Russell Ferry married Watson Jared Ferry):

1870 Canton (Morley PO) Census - Watson Ferry age 27 & wife Mary age 31 - he was a Lawyer living next to Leslie W Russell.  Sybil E Russell age 33 - teacher was living with with the family of Leslie Russell & Harriett.

St. Lawrence Plaindealer June 1, 1871:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Aug 30, 1893:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1898:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1927:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer May 13,1930 

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Canton Commercial Advertiser 1905:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1937:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer June 30, 1897:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1934:

Adaline Amanda Russell Pratt married William Wallace Pratt:

1860 Census - Milwaukee Wisc - Wallace Pratt 28, Attorney, b Vt, Adaline R 26 b NY, Alice M 2 b Wisc.

1870 Census - Kansas City, Mo - 3rd Ward -  Wallace 39 attorney, Adaline 34, Alice M 11, Charlotte E 9, Ada 4, John 6, Wallace 4, Charles E 3

http://www.vintagekansascity.com/100yearsago/labels/Frisco.html

Wallace Pratt, for 38 years one of Kansas City's prominent attorneys, died yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock at his residence, 213 West Armour boulevard. A stroke of paralysis four years ago and a relapse last December brought on a weakened condition, and for three weeks Mr. Pratt had been confined to his bed. For a week his life has been despaired of. Until the last two days, however, he conversed occasionally and recognized friends. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Grace Episcopal church.

Mr. Pratt was one of the most prominent railway lawyers in Missouri and for many years was legal adviser of some of the railroads entering Kansas City. It was principally through the efforts of George H. Nettleton, at one time president of the old Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis railway, and Mr. Pratt, general attorney for the road, that that line reached the proportions it did before being taken over by the Frisco. At the death of Mr. Nettleton, Mr. Pratt was appointed to the presidency of the road, but declined it, stating that he would rather remain as the road's legal counselor. He was general attorney for the St. Louis & San Francisco road, and for many years the firm of Pratt, Dana & Black, with which he was last associated, was employed to look after the legal affairs of the Union Depot Company. Mr. Pratt was at one time general attorney for the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. During the last two years, however, he had not been actively engaged in the practice of law.

The age of Mr. Pratt was 76 years. He came to Kansas City in 1869, and associated himself with W. S. Rockwell and Watson J. Ferry in the law firm of Pratt, Watson & Ferry. In 1872, Mr. Rockwell withdrew, the other partners continuing as Pratt & Ferry. In 1875, Judge Jefferson Brumback was admitted to the firm, which then became Pratt, Brumback & Ferry. Within two years Judge Brumback retired, and was succeeded by George W. McCrary, ex-secretary of war and a former United States circuit judge. Frank Hagerman became a member of the firm in 1887, and in 1890 Mr. McCrary died, the remaining partners continuing their association until 1890. Later Mr. Pratt associated himself with I. P. Dana and James Black, and the firm devoted its practice almost exclusively to corporation law.

Mr. Pratt was instrumental in forwarding various enterprises important to the commercial development of Kansas City, among them the Union Transit Company, now the Kansas City Belt Railway Company, of which he was a director, and for which he was counsel up to the time of his retirement.

He was born in Georgia, Vt., and later moved to Canton, N. Y., with his parents, where he received his early education. When he was 14 years old he entered Union college, and was graduated four years later. He at once entered the study of law under the tutelage of Henry J. Knowles, at Potsdam, N. Y. In 1852 he went to Chicago, where he was admitted to the bar, and a year later went to Milwaukee.

He was married in 1855 to Miss Adeline A. Russell, of Canton, N. Y. In 1874 his wife died, and ten years later he married Mrs. Caroline Dudley, of Buffalo, who died shortly before her husband's stroke of paralysis.

Mr. Pratt leaves four children, Mrs. Hermann Brumback and Wallace Pratt, Jr., of Kansas City, and Mrs. Elwood H. Alcott, of Pasadena, Cal., and Wesley R. Pratt, of Buffalo.

From Randal Loy  [randaljloy@gmail.com]  :

Information taken from Randal J Loy's book about the windows in his Grace Church, Kansas City, Missouri:

 

(William) Wallace Pratt, Sr., was born in the little town of Georgia, Vermont, on October 16, 1831.  He was the eldest of six children, three sons and three daughters, born to Nathan Pratt (1803-1873) and Charlotte Hotchkiss (1808-1882). Nathan Pratt was a lumber magnate in the Adirondack Mountains. He and his son were direct descendants of Lieutenant William Pratt (1609-1678), who was one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636.  Lieutenant Pratt's parents were the Reverend William Pratt (1562-1629) and Elizabeth Prime (1564-1633) of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, which is where he was born on June 6, 1609, the third of six children.  He served in the Pequot Indian War in 1661, the year he was commissioned as a lieutenant.  He moved to Saybrook, Connecticut in 1645, and represented that community in the General Assembly from 1666 to 1678.  He also attended the General Court as a Deputy for 23 sessions beginning in 1645.  Lieutenant Pratt died on October 19, 1678, in Saybrook, which later became Essex, Connecticut.

Nathan and Wallace Pratt were also descendants of Ebenezer Hoyt (1695-1758).  On February 29, 1704, when Ebenezer was nine, his entire family of two adults and four children, as well as 236 other persons, were captured by a force of 48 Frenchmen and more than 200 Indians from the Huron, Abenakis and Mohawk tribes, led by the infamous French-Canadian officer Hertel de Rouville (1668-1722).  This large guerrilla force attacked the village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, two hours before dawn.  Of the captives, a total of 112 men, women and children, (including the entire Hoyt family,) were marched in the cold winter weather over heavy snowdrifts to Canada.  (The Indians had hidden snowshoes along the route for the captives to wear.)  When they arrived in Canada, the rest of Ebenezer's family went as captives to the French, and were later traded for French prisoners held by the British in London.  (Ebenezer's father, David Hoyt (1651-1704) died of starvation on the march to Canada, in the wilds of New Hampshire in May of 1704.)  However, Ebenezer remained with an Indian tribe in Canada until he was 14 years old, when he managed to escape, and eventually returned to Massachusetts.  One of his grandsons, Ralph Hoyt (1751-1832), was an officer in the American Revolutionary War.

Wallace Pratt moved with his parents to Canton, New York, in 1839.  He attended Union College when he was 14 years old, and graduated in 1849.  He immediately began the study of law under Judge Henry Liberty Knowles (1815-1892) in Potsdam, New York.  After he completed his studies with Judge Knowles, young Wallace Pratt began to suffer hemorrhages from his lungs, and it was feared he had consumption.  At the advice of some friends, he spent a month in the forests of the Adirondack Mountains, hunting deer and trout with a knife, and sleeping on beds of aromatic hemlock and balsam boughs.  This cured him of the consumptive condition.  In late 1855, he went to Chicago and was admitted to the Illinois bar.  A year later, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He married his first wife, Adaline Amanda Russell (1834-1874), on November 27, 1855, in Canton, New York.  She was the daughter of John Leslie Russell (1805-1861), an attorney in Canton who had a reputation as the ablest lawyer in the state and as a dependable and trustworthy public official.  Her mother was Mary Sybil Wead (1813-1870).  The Wead family was also extremely prominent in Canton.  Mr. Russell was a friend of Silas Wright, Jr. (1795-1847), who served as a United States Senator from New York in 1833, and was the governor of New York from 1845 to 1846.

The Pratt family came to Kansas City in the first half of 1869.  The Pratts had nine children, four daughters and five sons, however, only six children survived to adulthood.  A son, Fred, was born in 1870 but died at the age of 6 months; then a daughter, Rose, was born in 1872 and lived for 10 months.  The last son, named for his grandfather, Nathan, was only 28 days old when he died on March 17, 1874, three days after his mother's untimely death. Those three infants, Mrs. Adaline Pratt, and both Mr. Pratt's parents, were first buried in Union Cemetery, but were moved to Mount Washington Cemetery in 1903  Wallace Pratt was one of the Incorporators of Mount Washington Cemetery in 1900, and he served as the President of the Mount Washington Cemetery Association, and as a member of its Board of Directors, in 1906, 

Shortly after his arrival here, Mr. Pratt set up an office with Dean S. Kelley (1837-1906), who performed legal title abstracts.  In 1872, Mr. Pratt created a partnership with attorneys William S. Rockwell (1825-1882) and Watson Jared Ferry (1842-1930), which was known as Pratt, Rockwell & Ferry.  (Mr. Ferry was married to one of Adaline Russell Pratt's sisters, Mary Jane Russell (1838-1897).)  Mr. Rockwell left the firm in 1873 to reside in Colorado where he later became a judge.  After Mr. Rockwell's departure from the firm, and with the addition of Judge Jefferson Brumback (1829-1899) in 1875, the firm became Pratt, Brumback & Ferry.  A later incarnation of the firm, known as Pratt, Dana & Black, found Mr. Pratt in partnership with Israel Putnam Dana (1849-1910), also a member of Grace Church and Treasurer there for many years beginning in 1884, and with James Witherspoon Black (1860-1906), who also was a teacher.  Their practice was devoted almost exclusively to corporate law.  Mr. Pratt was general counsel for the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, and the firm served as counsel for the Union Depot Company and for the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, which managed the streetcars in Kansas City at that time.  According to a 1901 publication, Mr. Pratt was "one of the most prominent railway lawyers in Missouri."  (Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri:  A Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Reference, Howard L. Conrad, The Southern History Company, New York City, New York, 1901, Vol. 5, p. 201.)  His practice frequently took him to New York City and the East Coast, where he gave counsel to his railroad clients.  His son, Wallace Pratt, Jr. (1867-1916), was also an attorney, (and a member of Grace Church,) but was not in partnership with his father at the time of his father's death.

Adaline Amanda Russell Pratt died of consumption on March 14, 1874.  In the early 1880s, during one of his business trips to Buffalo, New York, Mr. Pratt met Caroline Felthousen Dudley, who had been widowed since July of 1880.  They were married December 12, 1884, in Schenectady, New York.  His eldest daughter, Alice Pratt Berdell (1858-1887), died three years after that.   At some point in 1897, Mr. Pratt ordered memorial windows from the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company for his first wife and eldest daughter to be installed in Grace Church.  Those windows were placed in the Chancel, to the North of the Reredos, and both were dedicated on Sunday, October 24, 1897. 

Wallace Pratt suffered several strokes in the last four years of his life.  The first, termed a "paralyzing stroke" in his obituary, occurred near the end of 1903, about one year after Caroline died.  He suffered a second stroke in December of 1906, shortly before his death from the final stroke on March 18, 1907.  His obituary states that he had removed himself from the practice of law about two years before his death, so attendance at any church during those last two years may have been difficult for him, if not impossible.  He was buried in Mount Washington Cemetery with his parents, his first wife, and the three infant children.

Nine years later, the junior Wallace Pratt died tragically as the result of a fall.  He was found unconscious at 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 19, 1916, on the sidewalk in front of 1123 Main Street, and was taken to General Hospital.  He died five hours later.  While the death notice which appeared that evening in The Kansas City Star advised that he left a widow and daughter, his death certificate indicated that he was divorced.  (In fact, the individual who provided the information for that death certificate was "Mrs. Herman Brumback", the former Elizabeth Pratt (1861-1937), sister of Wallace Pratt, Jr.)  The newspaper account also revealed that a letter was found in one of his pockets.  It was addressed to a close friend of Wallace Pratt, Jr., but had never been mailed.  In it, Mr. Pratt related a tale of financial difficulties, which had plagued him for the last several months of his life.  The three-paragraph newspaper story did not mention an employer for Mr. Pratt, nor did it advise any details of his career.  His death certificate listed his occupation as "Insurance", so he may have served as an in-house counsel for an insurance company.  Considering the financial difficulties mentioned in his letter, perhaps he had turned to selling insurance as his livelihood.  There was no mention that he was inebriated at the time of the fall, but a later newspaper article advised that the autopsy revealed that the skull fracture he suffered was consistent with a fall, rather than an assault.  There was no speculation of suicide, either, so the injuries must not have appeared severe enough to have been caused by a fall from a significant height.  The account did take care to advise that Mr. Pratt had been a nationally-known polo player and cross‑country rider.  The final sentence of the article advised that Wallace Pratt, Jr., was 40 years old, when, in actuality, he was 49 years old at the time of his death.  He was buried with his parents in Mount Washington Cemetery.

  

The Baptism

This window is a memorial to Alice Pratt Berdell (1858-1887) by her father, Wallace Pratt, Sr., (1831-1907). She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 2, 1858. Alice was only 10 years old when the Pratt family arrived in Kansas City in 1869.  During her years in Kansas City, she had grown into a lovely, intelligent young woman.  She died on February 28, 1887 in South Kensington, London, England.  Alice and her husband, Theodore Berdell (1850-1897) had resided in London since shortly after their marriage on June 3, 1885, which took place in old Grace Church at Tenth and Central Streets.  Cameron Mann performed the ceremony.  While the death notices that appeared in the Kansas City newspapers did not specify a cause of death, each account mentioned that a daughter, only one week old, survived her.  This would indicate that the cause of Mrs. Berdell's death was a complication stemming from childbirth.  All the newspapers mourned the death of this "beautiful and intelligent" young woman who was only 28 years old.  The original Tiffany window was the fourth stained glass window installed in Grace Church, and was dedicated on Sunday, October 24, 1897.  Its subject was the Angel of the Annunciation (Luke 1:28).  This window measures 7 feet high and 4 feet 8 inches wide, as do the three other windows in the Apse.

                

     The Crucifixion

This window is a memorial to Adaline Amanda Russell Pratt (1834-1874), first wife of Wallace Pratt, Sr., (1831-1907), and was donated by her husband.  They were married on November 27, 1855, in Canton, New York.  She was born on March 28, 1834, in Canton, and was the daughter of John Leslie Russell (1805-1861), an attorney and statesman, and Mary Sybil Wead (1813-1870).  Adaline was the first of their four children.  The others were:  Sybil Estelle Russell (1836-1918), who married Virgil Gay Bogue (1846-1916), a world-renowned engineer, in 1872; Mary Jane Russell (1839-1897), who married Watson Jared Ferry (1842-1930), a law partner of Adaline's husband, Wallace Pratt; and Leslie W. Russell (1840-1903), who served on the bench of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.  John Leslie Russell was born in Fairfax, Vermont, on February 11, 1805, but his family moved to Malone, New York, in 1807.  He began his studies at the University of Vermont in 1823, and graduated in 1826.  He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1828.  He moved to Canton, New York, in 1829 and began the practice of law.  He met Mary Wead in Malone, but her family became quite prominent in Canton.  They were married October 17, 1832, in Malone.  Their daughter Adaline was named for Mrs. Russell's oldest sister, Adaline Wead (1801-1862).  In addition to the practice of law, John Leslie Russell was postmaster of Canton from 1833 to 1841, and was appointed county treasurer in 1834, a post he held for 21 consecutive years.  Mr. Russell practiced law in Canton until 1844, when he was elected to the New York State Assembly.  From that time on, Mr. Russell was immersed in the Democratic politics and public offices of that state.  Mr. Russell was also a friend of Silas Wright, Jr. (1795-1847), who served as a United States Senator from New York in 1833, and was the governor of New York from 1845 to 1846.  John Leslie Russell died on April 19, 1861, at the age of 56 years, and was so highly respected that his obituary filled two columns on the front page of the Canton newspaper, The Canton Commercial Advertiser.  His wife, Mary, died nine years later, in 1870.

Adaline Pratt was described as "a woman of much personal beauty, rare social qualities, highly educated, with great literary and artistic tastes and culture; a loving and devoted wife and mother."  Adaline and Wallace Pratt had nine children, six of whom lived to adulthood.  She died of consumption on March 14, 1874.  The original Tiffany window in this opening, the Angel of the Nativity (Luke 2:14), was the fifth stained glass window installed in Grace Church.  It was dedicated on Sunday, October 24, 1897.

The original windows (below)  hat Wallace Pratt donated in memory of Adaline and his daughter (1903) were destroyed in a fire in 1929.  They were from the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, as the firm of Louis Comfort Tiffany was known in 1898.

 

All of the windows in the Chancel (where those two Pratt windows were located) were destroyed in that fire in March of 1929, and the church decided to retain the original dedications of the windows, but the original subjects and artists were not repeated.  Instead, a "Life of Christ" series was done by a very important English stained glass artist (perhaps the most important stained glass artist of the 20th Century), by the name of James Humphries Hogan (1883-1948).  So, the information I have provided about the first two Pratt windows describes those done by Hogan in 1930. 

Tiffany Window in memory of Adaline Russell Pratt (1903):       Tiffany window in memory of Alice Pratt Burdell:

      Hogan Window in memory of Adaline:                                  Hogan Window in memory of Alice:

From Rootsweb (2 different entries):

Sybil Estelle Russell Bogue m Virgil Gay Bogue from Norfolk NY:

Virgil Bogue from Wikipedia

Note - Hale Cemetery in Norfolk has Bogue Ancestors:

http://stlawrencecountycemeteries.org/Norfolk/Hale%20Cem/halecensus.htm

 

Ogdensburg Journal 1866:

Canton Commercial Advertiser Oct 17, 1916:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1909 - George Chase Bogue - father of Virgil Bogue:

Canton Commercial Advertiser May 29, 1934:

Bridgeport California Chronicle Union May 15, 1909:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1938 (Harriett Russell Campbell):

Charles Hazen Russell:

1880 Brooklyn Census - Charles H Russell(34) lawyer, Stella 26 - Boarder - South 9th Street

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1879:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Dec 8, 1891:

(see more info under - Charles Hazen Russell was the husband of Stella Goodrich, Benjamin Russell is buried with them )

St. Lawrence Plaindealer May 1, 1889:

Brooklyn Eagle Feb 13, 1901:

Brooklyn Eagle Sept 27, 1906:

Brooklyn Eagle - March 15, 1912:

Brooklyn Eagle March 12, 1912:

Brooklyn Eagle January 6, 1914:

Benjamin Russell:

St. Lawrence Plaidealer July 15, 1891:

Brooklyn Eagle July 23, 1912:

Lawrence Russell:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer March 23, 1936:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Oct 3, 1939:

Norwood News June 19, 1906:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1916:

Plaindealer 1938:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Oct 3, 1939:

Another Charles Russell - From Malone - Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Dec, 1879

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1880: