Word: governor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proposition of Wallace Bruce '67, a slip from the grave of Theodore Winthrop. the poet and writer, who was one of the first Yale officers to meet death in the Union army. The planting of the ivies will be made a notable event and the plan of having Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, deliver the oration, is being favorably considered...
...admitted to the bar and entered the law firm of which his father was the senior member. Becoming interested in politics he served as a member of both branches of the Cambridge city government and afterwards as mayor for four years. He was nominated for governor in 1888 and 1889, but was defeated. In 1890 he was elected by a large majority and re-elected in 1891 and 1892. His career as governor was able and creditable and his political victories were the greatest achievements of any young man in the history of the state. In the beginning...
...Governor William E. Russell, of the class of 1877, died near St. Adelaide, Quebec, July 16. He was born in Cambridge, January 6, 1857, and was the son of Charles Theodore Russell. He was educated in the schools of Cambridge and entered Harvard with honors in 1873. At college he quickly became well known among his classmates as an excellent scholar, an all-round athlete...
...died Saturday. He prepared for Harvard at Acadia College and at Worcester Academy. After graduating with honors in 1855 he studied for the ministry at the Newton Theological School. Since graduation at the Theological School he has held various pastorates in New England and Canada, and has been a governor of Acadia College, first secretary of the Canadian Mission Board, and New England Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union. He was also a poet of some ability...
...Russell formed with his brother the law firm of C. T. and T. H. Russell, one of the best known legal firms in New England. In his earlier years Mr. Russell was prominent in politics, serving in the State Legislature several times. He was an uncle of ex-Governor Russell...