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Russel, James, a distinguished minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Mecklenburg County, N. C, about 178G. He was admitted on trial in the South Carolina Conference in 1805, but located, on account of ill-health, in 1815, and died Jan. 16, 1825. Mr. Russel had great power in the pulpit. See Sprague, A nnals of the A mer. Pulpit, vii, 408.
Russel, John, D.D., an English clergj'man, was educated at the Charter House, and thence was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1800. He was ordained in 1810, was head-master of the Char ter House from 1811 to 1832, and canon of Canterburj' in 1827. He became rector of St. Botolph's, Bishops- gate, in 1832, and secretary of the Clergy Orphan Cor- jwration in 1849. His death occurred in 1863, He published, Rudiments of Latin : — English Grammu?- (Lond. 1832, 18mo), which has run through eleven edi- tions:—TAe Spital Pulpit (1833, Ato) -.—Concio ad Cle- rum (1833): — besides Sermons, etc.
Russel, Michael, a Scottish prelate, was born at Edinburgh in 1781, and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1806. He became minister at Alloa in 1808, and of St. James's Chapel, Leith, in 1809, in which charge he continued during life. He was made dean of Edinburgh in 1831, bishop of Glasgow and Galloway in 1837, and died in 1848. Kussel wrote, Vieiu of Edu- cation in Scotland (1813, 8vo) : — Connection of Sacred and Profane History, etc. (Lond. 3 vols. 8vo — vols, i and ii, 1827; vol. iii, 1837): — Discourses on the Millennium (1830, 12mo) : — History of the Church in Scotland (Lond. 1834, 2 vols. sm. 8vo) : — besides several other histories. See AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v.
Russell, Alexander, physician to the English factory at Aleppo, was born and educated at Edinburgh. After a residence of many years in the East, during which he made himself familiar with the Turkish lan- guage, and gained great celebrity by his practice, he returned to Europe, and published his Natural History of Aleppo, a valuable performance, which has been translated into various languages. In 1759 he was elected physician of St. Thomas's Hospital, which posi- tion he retained until his death, in 1770.
Russell, Moses, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Greene County, near Xenia, O., Feb. 29, 1812. He was earlv operated upon by the influences of the Holy Spirit; he felt his call to the ministry, and God opened up a way for him to follow the desire of his heart. In 1833 he completed his preparatory studies, and in 1837 graduated from Miami University. He pursued a part of his theological studies under the direction of the Kev. John S. Galloway, of Springfield, O., and finished the course at Hanover and Allegheny seminaries. In 1840 he was licensed to preach, and in November of the same year was ordained and installed pastor of the Clifton Presbyterian Church, where he continued to labor until the day of his death, March 22. 1864. During this pas- torate of almost a quarter of a century the Church in- creased greatly in numbers and strength, and erected a large and commodious church edifice. ]\Ir. Kussell was an active, faithful minister of the (iospel. His preach- ing was doctrinal and practical. His sermons were rig- idly systematic, formed after a Scripture model. Dur- ing his life he preached over 3000 times, and has left over 1000 written sermons. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1865, p. 116. (J. L. S.)
Russell, Robert D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Guilford County, N. C, March 23, 1793. He was educated at the academy at (ireensborough, and the University of Niirth (Jarolina, at Chapel Hill; studied divinity in the Union Theological Seminary at Prince Edward, Va., and was licensed by Orange Presbytery in 1829. In 1832 he labored for (Joshen and Olney church- es, in Lincoln County, N. C. ; in 1834 in Tuseumbia and Kussellville, Ala. ; and in 1837 he removed to Nanapolia, and was ordained in that year by the South Alabama Presbytery. He was agent for the American Bible So-
ciety, and preached at Geneva, Tompkinsville, London, and Shell Creek, and at Nanapolia, near which place he died, April 16, 1867. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1868, p. 368. (J. L. S.)
Russell, Robert Young, a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in Antrim County, Ireland, April 18, 1800. In 1801 his parents emigrated to the United States, and settled in York District, S. C. After acquiring a good English education, he commenced the study of the lan- guages under Dr. Samuel Wright, of Turkey Creek ; subsequently taught school in order to obtain pecuni- ary means; and in 1820 entered Salem Academy, in Union District, and thence went to Yorkville, where he completed his academic course under the care of Kev. Robert M. Davis. During this period he had, from hon- est and earnest convictions of truth and duty, connected himself with the Independent Presbyterian Church ; and in view of the apparent necessities of this Churcli, then in its infancy, he was induced to forego his cher- ished design of completing his studies, and in 1824 he commenced the study of divinity under Rev. R. M. Da- vis. He was licensed by Yorkville Presbytery of the Independent Presbyterian Church, Jan. 24, 1825, and ordained by the same presbytery, April 22, 1826. He removed to Mount Tabor, in Union District, where he taught school for a time, and where he organized a Church to which he preached for many years. Thence he removed to the bounds of Bullock Creek Church, and became pastor of that Church in May, 1829, which re- lation continued for thirty-seven years. He died Nov. 5, 1866. Mr. Russell was a man of untiring zeal and impressive power as a minister of the Gospel. He had the most remarkable success all through his ministry. For thirty- years prior to the union of the Independent Presbyterian Church with the Presbyterian Church, he was the acknowledged and honored leader in that branch of the Church in which he had cast his lot. He loved this Church and her peculiar doctrines, and yet in every endeavor which was made to heal the breach he gave his hearty approval and earnest aid. See Wil- son, Presb. Hist. A Imanuc, 1867, p. 450. (J. L. S.)