Biography

1820 - 11/17/1904

RUSSELL, Robert F., a Representative from Luzerne County; born, 1820 in Pennsylvania; harness maker; seated as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1862 term as a result of contested election, March 11, 1862; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1863 term; proprietor, R. F. Russell and Company, harness makers and suppliers; farmer; elected, chair, Union Labor Convention, Kansas (1885-1888); elected, coroner, Abilene, Ka., (1885); died, November 17, 1904 in Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas.