A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . is at present (1913) president of the Mifflin CountyMedical Society, and stands high as a lung specialist. He is a Repub-lican in politics, and both he and his wife belong to the Presbyterianchurch. He married, August 27, 1896, Anna Shirey, born in Snyder county,daughter of Isaac and Harriet (Lehr) Shirey. Children: Will John(2), born July 4, 1897; Isaac Lehr, August 2, 1903, and Harriet Isabel,born January 31, 1913. The Russells of this record descend from James Russell,RUSSELL who came from Ireland, about 1750, with his brothers,William and J
A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . is at present (1913) president of the Mifflin CountyMedical Society, and stands high as a lung specialist. He is a Repub-lican in politics, and both he and his wife belong to the Presbyterianchurch. He married, August 27, 1896, Anna Shirey, born in Snyder county,daughter of Isaac and Harriet (Lehr) Shirey. Children: Will John(2), born July 4, 1897; Isaac Lehr, August 2, 1903, and Harriet Isabel,born January 31, 1913. The Russells of this record descend from James Russell,RUSSELL who came from Ireland, about 1750, with his brothers,William and Joshua. Joshua settled on a farm aboutfour miles north of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was the father oftwenty children, only one of whom reached adult years, all dying in in-fancy. William settled near Brownsville. James Russell owned andcultivated a farm four miles northwest of Gettysburg, and two mileswest of the estate of his brother, William. He died about 1805, leavingeight children: Sons—Samuel, Alexander, John and James; daughters— i. (yvr73y.,.:^a^^ kA HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLEY 433 Hannah, married David Hosack, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylva-nia; Elizabeth, married James Speer, of Indiana, Pennsylvania; Jane,married John Dickson, of Adams county, Pennsylvania; Mary, marriedAchison Laughlin, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. Samuel, one ofthe sons, lived on his own farm adjoining his fathers, later selling itand moving to Huntsville in the same county, thence to Connellsville,Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he died leaving several sons anddaughters. John, another son, lived for many years on the homestead,then moved to an adjoining tract, where he lived until death, leavingissue. James, another son, was in mercantile business in Alexandria, , in 1808, married and left issue. Alexander, one of the four sonsof James Russell, the emigrant, mentioned below, is the ancestor of theLewistown branch. (II) Alexander, son of James Russell, was born February 25,
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