Ancestry of
Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

John Russell

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Jim Douglas — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 58 
  • Father:
  • John Russell 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Apr 1817 
  • Birth Location:
  • near Elmira, Chemung, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 May 1896 
  • Death Location:
  • Sistersville, Tyler, West Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Harriet Matilda Corbin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 May 1848 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Elizabeth C. Russell (Ahnentafel No:29 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Russell died from injuries he received when he was struck by a railroad train.

• Additional marriages for John Russell

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  • Spouse:
  • Content Woodward
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Feb 1840

• Sources for John Russell

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Venango County, 1850, Allegheny, Image 8 of 28.
  • ² Federal Census, PA, Venango County, 1880, Allegheny, E.D. 257, p. 1, Image 9 of 12.
  • ³ Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1972, Death certificate for daughter Elizabeth C James.
  • ⁴ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 967, gives John's name as James.
  • ⁵ Jordan, John W., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 180-181.