See their family record.

Born September 4, 1873, about 7 P.M., New Market, Maryland. Nicknamed "Buba" as a child.

Member of Religious Society of Friends.

Member of New Market Literary Club.

In 1891 and 1892 attended for 1 1/2 years Greenwood Seminary, Millville, Pennsylvania, where his uncle Henry R. Russell, was principal. In 1892 living at 1113 Linden Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, and according to a letter from him to his father, attending school. In letters written in that year and the next, he spoke of paying $950 for a route delivering the Baltimore American newspaper to 100 subscribers, which took three hours each morning; he sold this route in 1897 for $1000. On November 6, 1893, the John M George School opened in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylania; he was one of 154 entering students, one of 7 from Maryland. From the Newtown Enterprise, June 19, 1897: "November 11, 1903, the 'B Society,' a small group of George School students, met for the purpose of organizing a regular literary society. Under the management of Henry Russell, president...a number of business meetings were held during which a permanent organization was perfected, and the first regular officers, Roger B. Farquhar and H. May Sharples, were inaugurated December 2d, 1893, this being the date of the first regular literary meeting of the Whittier Literary Society." Graduated June 13, 1895; his essay was one of several read at Commencement and was printed in the Newtown Enterprise, June 15, 1895, as follows.

     To the American who looks for causes and effects in all that happens, the China-Japan war furnishes an interesting subject for speculation. All nations, being imbued with the idea that China did not care to bring herself into contact with the nations of the West, have permitted her to live a comparatively isolated life. She has not been disturbed by the leading nations of the world.
     When two nations possessing the wisdom and intelligence of China and Japan go to war, we naturally think there is something vital at stake. Writers upon the subject are inclined to think that Korea and its advantages are the bone of contention. That seems to be true as far as it goes, but it is not far enough, if one wishes thoroughly to understand the causes.
     China may be described by the epithet--inaction. It is well known with what determination she shut her ports to American commerce, hence to American industry, and since she as a nation cared nothing for the United States as a nation, she cared nothing for the people of the United States regarded as individuals, thus American culture was shut out from her territories. For years she has stood as a stagnant pool, nourishing life terribly impeded by the inheritance and complete assimilation of Eastern conservatism.
     Progress is the epithet for Japan. She has opened up her ports, not only to us, but, also, to England and other leading nations. She has studied the arts and inventions of foreign countries as they came under her notice. She has sent her young men all through the realms of progressive culture, not only to educate them by intellectual application, but also by association. For a nation which intelligently admits that the arts of Greece did as much, shall I say, to prevent an insurrection, as her armies did to suppress them is far from the barbaric state. Such was the tacit confession of Japan, else she would never have put herself in the present relation with other peoples.
     Thus we have opposed to each other inaction on the one hand and progress on the other. While it is a battle of death as a means to an end, who cannot see the struggle between the psychic factors of civilization striving for the field, endeavoring to answer the question: "What policy shall be adopted for the East?"
     So much for the social significance of the Oriental war. But let us look, after all, to its most useful result; at its practical side, in which we as citizens of the United States should be interested. All through the contest China and Japan have held the United States in high regard. This means a great deal. The resources of China, which this war will surely develop, are great, and they will be especially developed if the usurping power now reigning should be dethroned. The success of Japan will add additional stimulus to her people and raise her in the estimation of all powers, because the mark of a great nation to-day [sic] is its military strength. Thus, success in war and the encouragement resulting therefrom, a feeling of promotion to the rank of the great educational and moral leaders of the world, will all tend to develop these little islands to their utmost capacity. Of the commercial income of China and Japan, England has claimed three dollars out of every five. Now the United States has a better chance to enter these countries and turn the most of the trade to her own shores. We want more trade for our produce. The American farmer seems to be suffering now because he can find no market for his articles; wherefore it seems to be the place of the government to solicit the trade between those two countries and us.
     Not to dwell too much upon the advantage directly in a financial way, which is so confidently expected, let us look at the justice of the war. It is claimed by some that Japan made way for it, that she did all she could to bring the revival of the old difficulty to a head this time. That is stoutly denied by the Japanese Minister, and he gives many proofs of their trying to avoid war, if any other means could be used. It is declared by them that they gave China the choice between war and arbitration, and that apparentely she chose war. The evidence agains these statements does not over-balance those of the Japanese, thereby leaving the Japanese in a much better light than their opponents would desire. Unintentionally it is a reformation of the East, a stirring up of that great country lying between two nations of enlightenment, like a splinter in well flesh, irritating and inflaming that portion around it. We are not content for China to live as she lived before the war. The battles of Marathon Salamis and others checked the advance of Eastern conservatism, but those of Ping Ying and Yaloo bid fair to wipe out Eastern prejudices and idolatrous customs.
     Let us look at this event as an era in the history of the world from which to date the gradual disappearance of one of the greatest heathen nations of modern times. Do not look at as a troubled period bringing with it loss only, but as a reform, the result of which could not be obtained so quickly by any other means.

The Newport Enterprise of June 15, 1895, stated he took a special course at Eli M. Lamb's school in Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1899 he received mail at 750 N. Eutaw Street, Baltimore.

Entered Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore, Maryland in 1896 and received his medical degree on April 13, 1899. According to History of Homoeopathy and Its Institutions in America, vol. II, edited by Harvey King, M. D., there were eight graduates that year, five from Maryland.

Married to Gertrude Sullivan June 27, 1900, at Monrovia, Maryland by David May, Rector of Lingamore Parish, Maryland.

Lived for a time in 1901 in Hyattstown, Maryland. Later lived at 1103 Linden Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. Had a position at Mount Street Hospital paying about $12.00 a month, until moving to house at 3902 Groveland Avenue, where he had office in his home, and where he lived until his death. Practiced medicine from this location, which in 1930 Federal Census was valued at $10,000, for over 40 years until his death.

History of Homoeopathy and Its Institutions in America, vol. II states "Dr. Henry Russell has been lecturing on toxicology since October, 1903.

Had a car in 1908, according to a postcard received by his son, and bought a Ford in 1913, according to a letter from his father.

Contracted tuberculosis and went with his family for the "cure" to Saranac Lake, New York, from October 1, 1910 to about May 1, 1911. In July of 1910 they were in Prescott, Arizona, and Denver, Colorado, probably undergoing treatment.

Appointed to one of two Boards of Medical Examiners in 1924, 1926, 1933, and 1938 by Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, as listed in Maryland Manuel, 1926, part of Maryland Archives.

Member of Baltimore Meeting, Religious Society of Friends.

Died December 2, 1950, New Market, Maryland. Cause of death: heart attack. Services at Stoney Run Friends Meeting House, 5116 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Buried in Friends Burial Ground, Harford Road, Baltimore, MD.

Many volumes from his medical library were donated to the library of the School of Medicine of the University of Maryland.

From a letter written December 7, 1950 to the Baltimore Evening Sun from Charles C. Wooden of Princeton, New Jersey, a former patient. "Smitten with tuberculosis in the midst of his medical career, he practiced what he preached, overcame this dread disease, and lived to practice his arduous profession to the very end of his long life. He was friend, intimate, and counselor of his many patients. A gentle, bubbling sense of humor helped carry him through many a trying day and night, and his appreciation of a good story was so gratifying to see that I used to hoard them for him."

From The Friends Intelligencer, Dec. 23, 1950. "Expert professional skill coupled with high personal standards and a rare and subtle understanding of the spiritual needs of his fellow men, all spiced with a genial, kindly wit and ready jest, made him to hundreds the 'beloved physician.' Ably did his life prove the truth of the proverb, 'A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.' "