"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 482.
 
WILLIAM RUSSELL
     Was born in Gallia county, Ohio, September 11, 1827, where he resided with
his parents until 1836, when, upon their moving, he accompanied them to Knox
county, Illinois, of which place his father is still a resident.  On April 6,
1848, he accepted an offer of five dollars a month to drive a team across the
plains to Oregon.  On arrival he first settled in Marion county, but in 1849,
made a short visit to California; returning, however, soon afterwards being shot
with a poisoned arrow by some Indians, while passing through a portion of
Southern Oregon.  In 1865, he came to the Siuslaw valley, purchased his present
farm of five hundred and thirty acres -- known as the "Mountain House," a view
of which appears in this work, where is established the post-office named after
the old pioneer D. B. Cartwright, our subject being the post-master.  Married
his present wife, formerly Mill N. C. Cartwright, January 12, 1866, by which
union there are five children, viz:  Mary E., Emma J., Charles E., Nannie M.,
and Darius B.

 
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