CHARLES

See also:

• RUSSELL (FAMILY)
• RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
• RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
• RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
• RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
• RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
• RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
• RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
• RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
• RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )

RUSSELL

See also:

• LOWELL
• LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE (1856— )
• CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL (1835-1864)
• LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL (1819-1891)
• LOWELL, JOHN (1743-1802)

LOWELL (1835-1864)  , American soldier, was born on the 2nd of January 1835 in Boston, Massachusetts . His mother, Anna Cabot Jackson Lowell (1819-1874), a daughter of Patrick Tracy Jackson, married Charles Russell Lowell, a brother of James Russell Lowell; she wrote verse and books on education . Her son graduated at Harvard in 1854, worked in an iron mill in Trenton, New Jersey, for a few months in 1855, spent two years abroad, and in 1858-186o was local treasurer of the Burlington & Missouri river railroad . In 186o he took charge of the Mount Savage Iron Works, in Cumberland, Maryland . He entered the Union army in June 1861 (commission May 14) as captain of the 3rd (afterwards 6th) U.S. cavalry; on the 15th of April 1863 he became colonel of the 2nd Massachusetts cavalry; he was wounded fatally at Cedar Creek on the 19th of October 1864, when he was promoted brigadier-general of U.S . Volunteers, and died on the next day at Middle-town, Va . Lowell married in October 1863, Josephine Shaw (1843-1905), a sister of Colonel R . G . Shaw . Her home when she was married was on Staten Island, and she became deeply interested in the social problems of New York City . She was a member of the State Charities Aid Society, and from 1877 to 1889 was a member of the New York State Board of Charities, being the first woman appointed to that board . She founded the Charity Organization Society of New York City in 1882, and wrote Public Relief and Private Charity (1884) and Industrial Arbitration and Conciliation (1893) .

See

Edward E . Emerson (ed.), The Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell (Boston, 1907) .