. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. age. Heassisted his father on the farm and continuedwith him at market gardening until twenty-five years of age, when he rented the farm ofhis father and conducted the business in hisown interest for five years. In 1898 heremoved to Winchester, where he rented theWindmere farm and conducted market gar-dening for three years. In the meantime(1900) he purchased the old Johnson place inthe east portion of Woburn, later known asthe Drafiin place, consisting of forty acre
. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. age. Heassisted his father on the farm and continuedwith him at market gardening until twenty-five years of age, when he rented the farm ofhis father and conducted the business in hisown interest for five years. In 1898 heremoved to Winchester, where he rented theWindmere farm and conducted market gar-dening for three years. In the meantime(1900) he purchased the old Johnson place inthe east portion of Woburn, later known asthe Drafiin place, consisting of forty built three extensive greenhouses with anarea of ten thousand square feet of cultivatingspace, and there makes a specialty of marketproduce during the summer season and a spe-cialty of violets in winter, both going to theBoston market. Mr. Russell has also abouteighteen thousand square feet of sashbedspace in connection with his regular green-houses. He sends his produce regularly eachday to Boston, and his farm is one of the finestin the eastern portion of Woburn. He alsopurchased the old Abbott place, but later sold. MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 827 it to Dobbins Brothers. He is a man of stricttemperance habits, devoted to his business in-terests, and a hard worker, which is shown inthe many improvements he has made sinceestablishing his plant. He is a Unitarian inreligion and a Republican in politics. Mr. Russell married, April 21, 1892, Jose-phine Harriet Winn, of Burlington, Massa-chusetts, born May 14, 1872, daughter of Wil-liam and Elizabeth (Pollock) Winn, of Bur-lington, the former a farmer. Their children:Lois W., born February 26, 1895, died April26, 1895; Winn, born November 22, 1896;Fred; born June 17, 1898. (For first generation see William Russeli, i). (H) John Russell, son ofRUSSELL WilHam Russell (i), wasborn in Cambridge, Septem-ber II, 1645. He married Elizabeth Fiske,daughter of David Fiske (i), a wheel-wright of Cambridge and Watertown, whowas born in England. Fi
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