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DR. ALLEN RUSSELL

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
People, Site
Location
3812 S Main St, Marion, NY 14505, USA
Lat/Long
43.142905, -77.189105
Grant Recipient
Marion Historic Association
Historic Marker

DR. ALLEN RUSSELL

Inscription

DR. ALLEN RUSSELL
EDUCATOR, CIVIL WAR SURGEON,
PHYSICIAN & DRUGGIST SERVED
AS JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
& NY STATE ASSEMBLYMAN.
LIVED HERE 1860-1880.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2021

Doctors Allen S. Russell and Elisha R. Wright lived together here in 1860. The elder doctor, Wright, was born in 1801 and died in 1874. Russell was born in 1834. He served as a Surgeon during the Civil War in Hardin’s Division, 22 Army Corps and later as Marion town justice and an New York State Assemblyman. He later moved to Michigan where he died in 1912.