He served as the third president, succeeding Morris K. Jessup, of the Five Points House of Industry, of which his father was a founder and the first president.[2]
Percy Rivington Pyne Russell (1885–1895),[7] who died aged 9 years and 6 months,[6] in Rome in February 1895.[7]
Ethelberta Pyne Russell (1887–1952),[8] who married physical chemist Marion Eppley in 1909.[9]
Archibald Douglas Russell Jr. (1890–1968), who married Mariette Andrews Doolittle,[10] daughter of Julius T. A. Doolittle of Utica, New York, and niece of Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr.[11]
Helen Rutherfurd Russell (b. 1897), who married R. Lawrence Benson in 1919.[12][13] After his death, she married Joseph S. Clements in 1938.[14]
His wife died at their home, 34 East 36th Street, on February 11, 1918.[22] Russell died at his home in New York on November 27, 1919.[1] He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. His entire estate, estimated at $50,000,000, was left to his children.[23]
Residences
Edgerstoune, 2015.
In New York, the Russells lived at 34 East 36th Street. In 1903, Russell hired his brother William Hamilton Russell, a partner in the architecture firm of Clinton and Russell, to build Edgerstoune,[b] a Tudor Revival mansion on his Princeton estate.[24][25] Edgerstoune, which cost between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 to construct, was located across the street from Drumthwacket the estate of his brother-in-law, Moses Taylor Pyne (and currently the official residence of the governor of New Jersey),[26] and directly adjoining the estates of Junius Spencer Morgan, William T. White, and C. B. Lambert. After his death, the 274-acre Edgerstoune estate was sold by his son-in-law, Governor John Gilbert Winant, to Albert Robertshaw who planned a large real estate development with a country club. Less than a month later, it was sold to Professor John G. Hun, headmaster of the Hun School of Princeton for $350,000.[27]
Descendants
Through his son Archibald, he was a grandfather of A. Douglas Russell III, Louise Russell (wife of John Evelyn duPont Irving), Isabel Russell (wife of Robert S. Potter) and a great-grandfather of Linda Potter (born January 13, 1956) who married Timothy Shriver, a member of the Kennedy Family through his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a younger sister of President John F. Kennedy.[10]
Through his youngest daughter Constance, he was a grandfather of Constance Winant (1921–1978) (wife of Peruvian scientist Carlos Valando);[28] John Gilbert Winant Jr. (1922–1993) (who served as a bomber pilot in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Colditz, before his removal in April 1945 as one of the Prominente to be used as a bargaining chip by Himmler and the SS as the end of the war approached; he was eventually released);[29] and Rivington Russell Winant (1925–2011)[30] (who also served in World War II and later became treasurer at the United Nations).[31]
References
Notes
^Russell's son-in-law, John Gilbert Winant (1889–1947), committed suicide in 1947,[16] following the breakdown of his marriage to Russell's daughter Constance, and Winant's failed affair with actress Sarah Churchill, the daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.[17]
