Isaac Russell
Isaac Russell, carpenter, Kent, was born in Woodbridge, New Haven Co., Conn., February 12, 1810, son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Hotchkiss) Russell. When he was five years of age his parents removed to what is now Knox, Albany Co., N. Y., where he resided until seventeen years of age and received a limited education in the common schools. In the fall of 1827 he came to Ohio, and located in what is now the village of Kent, where he has since resided and where he learned the carpenter and joiner's trade, an occupation he has followed up to the present time. He has been twice married; first, in June, 1835, to Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Fenton, of Manlius, N. Y. The issue of this union was six children, four of whom grew to manhood and womanhood: Martha (Mrs. W. H. Palmer), Nelson, Darwood C. (deceased) and Frances A. (Mrs. W. H. Cole). Our subject's present wife was Mrs. Mary M. Clark, nee Lake, to whom he was married November 9, 1880. Mr. Russell has been a resident of what is now the village of Kent for fifty-seven years, and has filled several offices in the township and the village of Kent. He has been elected to the office of Justice of the Peace for seven consecutive terms, and was previously elected to serve an unexpired term; was also Mayor of Kent one term, and held other minor offices. In politics Mr. Russell has been a Republican since the organization of the partv.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885