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RUSSELL, Gen. Francis Marion, <\/strong>merchant and manufacturer; born Smith Co., Tenn., Sept. 11, 1865; Irish descent; son of \u00a0J. F. <\/strong>and Sarah E. (Austin) RUSSELL;<\/strong> father\u2019s occupation, blacksmith and wheelwright; educated local public schools; began life in his father\u2019s shop, and later, engaged in mercantile and tobacco trade , which continued from 1902 to 1906; entire property destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1907, to which has been added an undertaking business; engaged in the manufacture of lumber, operating two saw mills; interested in Vehicle and International Harvester Co., and owns stock in Smith County Bank; married Nannie T. WORD, <\/strong>Oct. 3, 1889; member Missionary Baptist Church; Free and Accepted Mason, I. O. O. F., M. W. of A.; Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Difficult RUSSELL, Gen. Francis Marion, merchant and manufacturer; born Smith Co., Tenn., Sept. 11, 1865; Irish descent; son of \u00a0J. F. and Sarah E. (Austin) RUSSELL; father\u2019s occupation, blacksmith and wheelwright; educated local public schools; began life in his father\u2019s shop, and later, engaged in mercantile and tobacco trade , which continued from 1902 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,87,4419],"tags":[1211,612,1178],"class_list":{"0":"post-2367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-smith","7":"category-surname-r","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-russell","11":"tag-word","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15872,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/15872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}