History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922 Vol. IV, p. 97,
Christian Co.

     Bailey Russell, cashier of the First National Bank of Hopkinsville,
has had thirty-two years' experience with the uncompromising and
accuracy compelling methods of monetary science as revealed behind
counters of Kentucky institutions.  As are all successful and reliable
cashiers, he is methodical in his habits and practical in his
ambitions.  Steadiness of life's aim has been imparted to him by
progenitors who braved the hardships and dangers of pioneer life in the
state, and he himself is a product of the agricultural communities,
having been born on a farm at Olinstead, Logan County, Kentucky, June 9,
1867, a son of John M. Russell.
     The Russell family is of Scotch origin, and the original ancestor
of the family in this country settled at an early date in one of the
states on the Atlantic Coast, where in 1797 was born George W. Russell,
the grandfather of Bailey Russell.  He married a Miss Bailey, and became
the pioneer of the Russell family into Logan County, where he settled
three miles southwest of Adairville and there was engaged in farming on
a tract of about 600 acres of land until his death in 1880.  The
maternal grandfather of Mr. Russell, Beverly Crumbaugh, was the owner of
the old Crumbaugh homestead which was divided subsequently among his
children.  He was a pioneer of Logan County, rounded out an honorable
career, married a Miss Bailey, and died before the birth of his
grandson.
     John M. Russell, father of Bailey Russell, was born in October,
1839, in Logan County, Kentucky, where he was reared and married and
passed the active period of his life as a farmer, a vocation in which he
achieved much success through industry and good management.  In 1914, he
retired from active pursuits and moved to Adairville, where his death
occurred in May, 1915.  Mr. Russell was a man highly esteemed in his
community, and was a staunch democrat in politics, while his religious
faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of which he was
an active and liberal supporter.  He married Alice Crumbaugh, who was
born in Logan County in 1846, and died in 1883, and they became the
parents of three children: Bailey; Lillie, who is the wife of a farmer,
C.P. Riley, residing at Olmstead; and Victoria, who married first James
Gunn, a farmer, and after his death married James Pike, a railroad
engineer of Adairville, Kentucky.  For his second wife John M. Russell
married Miss Mattie Townsend, who survives him as a resident of
Adairville, and they had one daughter, Mary, the wife of S.H. Shields,
an electrician of Nashville, Tennessee.
     Baily Russell was educated in the rural schools of Logan County and
the South Kentucky College, Hopkinsville, but after spending one term in
that institution gave up his studies at the age of twenty years and
entered the City Bank of Hopkinsville, commencing his banking experience
at the bottom of the ladder in the position of collection clerk.  This
he filled from June, 1887, until March 1888, and in April of the latter
year accepted a position as bookkeeper with the First National Bank of
Hopkinsville, a concern with which he has been identified ever since. 
In 1905 Mr. Russell was promoted to assistant cashier, and in January,
1914, was made cashier of this institution, one of the strongest in the
state for cities the size of Hopkinsville, and one which bears an
excellent reputation in banking circles of the South and Middle West. 
Mr. Russell is known as a man of expert financial ability and has the
full confidence of his associates, who rely upon his judgment in matters
of importance.  He is treasurer of the Hopkinsville Building and Loan
Association and treasurer of the Associated Charities of Hopkinsville. 
While he retains an interest in the old home farm in Logan County, he
makes his home at Hopkinsville, having a residence at 420 West Seventh
Street.  Mr. Russell's political allegiance is given to the democratic
party and he served two years as representative of the Seventh Ward in
the city council.  He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and, in
addition to being junior warden and a vestryman, is a member of the
Board of Church Trustees.  Fraternally he is affiliated with
Hopkinsville Lodge No. 545 B.P.O.E.. He is a promoter of stable and
conservative interests, and as a citizen and banker maintains standards
in keeping with the best welfare of the community.  During the World war
era he took an active part in all local movements and in recognition of
his efforts in putting the Victory Loan "over the top" in his community
was the recipient of a Liberty Loan medal, awarded by the United States
Treasury Department.
     Mr. Russell was married January 28, 1903, at Hopkinsville, to Miss
Katherine Bachman, who was born at Hopkinsville.  They have no children.

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