of North Dakota · from Monument, Massachusetts · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Russell Blackwell 1823 – 1898
Russell Blackwell⚭ Lydia B. Phinney
childrenElisha B. Blackwell · Ada Blackwell · Lillie Blackwell · Lydia A. Blackwell · Russell W. S. Blackwell
Source: Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota (1900)
Their story
What the record says
Father of subject R.W.S. Blackwell.
Born in Monument, Massachusetts, of English-Puritan descent.
Sea captain in the American merchant marine (forefathers followed the seas 2.5 centuries).
Died at Bourne 17 Nov 1898, aged 75 (birth year ~1823 estimated).
Prominent man in his native town.
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