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Warren Dutton Russell.

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WARREN DUTTON RUSSELL.
Second Lieutenant i8th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), August 20, 1861; First
Lieutenant, July 16, 1862; killed at Bull Run, Va., August 30, 1862.
"W ARREN DUTTON RUSSELL was the son of James
Dutton and Ellen (Hooper) Russell. His father graduated at Harvard College in the Class of 1829, and was
admitted to the Suffolk Bar, but never actively prosecuted his
profession. He died at his residence in Longwood, Brookline,
a few months before Warren entered the military service.
The mother of Lieutenant Russell was the daughter of
William Hooper, Esq., of Marblehead. She was a person of
most noble and beautiful qualities, and in a singular degree
combined the finest and most attractive womanly graces with
great fortitude and elevation of mind. At the age of thirtyone, when Warren was eight years old, she died, leaving two
daughters, who still survive, and two sons, Warrern and
Francis, who both gave their lives for their country. Excepting this irretrievable bereavement, the boyhood of Lieutenant
Russell had no marked event. The first school he attended
was kept by Mr. T. Russell Sullivan in Boston, under the Park
Street Church. After the death of his mother and the removal
of his home from Boston to Nonantum, a portion of the town
of Newton, he was placed at the boarding-school of Mr.
Cornelius M. Vinson, at Jamaica Plain. But his final preparation for college, made after his father's removal to Longwood, was accomplished under the tuition of Mr. Thomas G.
Bradford, a teacher of high repute in Boston.
He entered Harvard College in the year 1856; with the class
that graduated in r860, and remained there till the end of the
Freshman year, then took up his connections at Harvard andi
entered college again at Amherst. He had been at Amherst,
however, only a few months, when he decided not to complete
a collegiate course, but to enter at once upon the study of the