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Peter Tirus Russell
Dallas County
Born In Concord, New Hampshire, April 3, 1808, and died May 5, 1881. He was educated at Phillips' Academy at Exeter, N. H., receiving for his time a fair education.. Nearly all his life an evangelist on the frontier first in Indiana and then in Iowa. Shortly after attaining his manhood he went to Wayne county, New York, where for seven years he was a preacher in the Methodist Church. Changing his views somewhat on the question of Church government, and the ordinances of the church, he united with the Christian Church. He soon became well known as an effective and logical preacher among the Disciples, and has ever since been recognized a man or great ability and character by the people of his church. He came to Indiana in the year 1842 and for twelve years preached in that State and Michigan, at various points, doing all the while the work of an evangelist. In 1854, he came to Iowa, locating in Dallas county. He was Chaplain of the Thirty-Ninth Iowa during the last two years of the war, and will be remembered by a great many of the Iowa soldiers. He was married October 20, 1842. in Michigan to Adelgirtha Shorter. He was a member of the lowa Legislature from Dallas county in 1862 and took a high rank in that body. Mr. Russell was a member of the Christian Church.
Source: The Dallas County News, Adel, Iowa, May 11, 1887
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