Arthur Joseph Russell

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Arthur Joseph Russell (also Arthur J. Russell , born March 14, 1861 in Hallowell , Kennebec County , Maine , United States ; † September 25, 1945 in Minneapolis , Hennepin County , Minnesota , United States) was an American journalist and writer .

Life

Family and education

Arthur Joseph Russell, son of Joseph F. Russell and Mary Haines Haskell Russell, graduated from Hallowell Classical and Scientific Academy in 1879, and from Bowdoin College in Brunswick , Maine in 1883 . He married Kate H. Baldwin on April 3, 1897. On December 4, 1908, he married a second marriage to Mary Warner from Rockford, Minnesota. The daughter Alice came from this marriage. Russell died in Minneapolis in 1945 at the age of 84.

Professional background

Upon graduation, Arthur Joseph Russell was employed by the Portland Advertiser and Gazette of Maine newspaper in Portland . In 1885 he moved to Minneapolis, where he got a job as a proofreader for the daily newspaper Minneapolis Journal. Russell, who was employed there in various functions until the 1940s, also acted as author of the column The Long Bow for the daily newspaper Minneapolis Times-Tribune .

The staunch supporter of the Republicans Arthur Joseph Russell, who stood out in particular as the author of much-read literary works at the time, was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi student union .

Works (selection)

  • Illumination of Walt Whitman , Tennyson & others. Publication Society of the Liberal Christian Science Church, Minneapolis, Minn., 1901
  • Stony lonesome. Rand McNally, Chicago, Ill., 1903
  • Fourth street. Torch Press, Minneapolis, Minn; Cedar Rapids, Ia., 1917
  • Brief glimpses of unfamiliar Loring Park aspects. LH Wells, Minneapolis, Minn., 1919
  • The Eternity Club and its discovery of the fairylands of the aged. LH Wells, Minneapolis, Minn., 1921
  • One of our first families and a few other Minnesota essays. Leonard H. Wells, Publisher: And is to be sold at Powers Book Section, Minneapolis, Minn., 1925
  • The other side of a street. Privately printed by the Lund Press for Arthur J. Russell and his friends, Minneapolis, Minn., 1931
  • The wrong paradise. Privately printed by the Lund Press for Arthur J. Russell and his friends, Minneapolis, Minn., 1935

literature

  • Theodore Christian Blegen, Theodore Ludwig Nydahl: Minnesota History: A Guide to Reading and Study. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 1960, p. 196.
  • Who was Who in America with world notables: Volume IV, 1961-1968. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 819.

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personal data
SURNAME Russell, Arthur Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Russell, Arthur J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Hallowell , Kennebec County , Maine , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1945
Place of death Minneapolis , Hennepin County , Minnesota , United States