History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 558.
[Bourbon County]    [Clintonville Precinct]

JAMES M. RUSSELL, farmer, P. O. Paris, was born Dec. 29th, 1847 in Bourbon
County, near where he now resides.  He is a son of Robert N. Russell, who
was raised near Russell's Cave in Fayette County.  He was a farmer; served
as Sheriff of the county and died in 1852, with cholera.  His grandfather
was Thomas Russell, a native of Virginia, who came to Kentucky quite early
and settled near the cave which has derived its name from him.  He
mingled freely in political life and was a prominent man of his time.  The
mother of our subject was Eliza Matson, daughter of Jas. S. Matson, of
Bourbon.  Mr. Russell graduated from Yale College, in the class of 1870,
and soon after went in company with Prof. Marsh, and others, on a
geological and scientific tour on the plains.  He also visited Sitka,
Alaska, and returning through Mexico, was captured by banditti, who did
him and his companions no other injury than depriving them of their
pistols and horses.  He returned via Cuba to Kentucky, where he settled
down to farming.  In 1874 he made the tour of Europe.  He is a farmer,
owns 612 acres of fine land, upon which he raises the usual crops, and
gives attention to the breeding and rearing of short horn cattle, Prince
Pace, 2d; a Bates bull is at the head, which contains representatives
from most of the popular families.  Mr. Russell is a member of the
Christian church, and is highly esteemed by his neighbors and friends.

Russell Matson
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Fayette-KY VA Alaska Mexico Cuba Europe

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