NOTE: Jim Russell was married to Cora Elizabeth Callahan and they had a son named Steve Richard Russell
Jim worked several years on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a fireman until 1908. He lived at Renovo. He was the only survivor of his train crew in a spectacular train wreck. It was a head-on collision and he survived by jumping and sliding on top of the rail on his back. He hid behind a tree and watched the engines collide and go up in the air. He watched the engineer burn up in the wreckage and remembers the flames torching his large beard.
Jim homesteaded on the Canadian line near Opheim, Montana for two years. His cousins Gordon and Hazel (Jerome's kids) also lived there. He never proved up on the third year of his homestead. His heart was not in living on the prairie. He loved the mountains and timber and spent the rest of his life in them.
He also lived on a homestead, 120 acres, at the head of big canyon (9.5 miles west of Weippe) during the depression. Jim lived in a dugout house. Jim's place joined the Svboda (locally, they pronounced this sewbody) place on the south. Steve Russell bought the Svboda Ranch, 160 acres. This was the last time Jim tried farming.
Worked as a night watchman at a mill on Cow Creek.
Jim lived in a one-room shack at Lochsa Lodge out just east of the barn and corrals. He raised Airdale dogs. He come through the mountains along the Lolo Motorway with his horse, Coaly, and his dogs.
From Lochsa Lodge, he moved to Victor, Montana and then to Stevensville, Montana.
Steve took his dad Jim back to New York twice to visit. (I think the first time was when they both went back in the 1920s to work on the railroads as firemen. The last time, my dad Clarke remembers was 1948)
Jim had a reputation of being a very hard worker. Steve remembers that his dad never had time to play with him. Jim would help Steve learn how to work but he insisted that he learn the first time.
Jim had a reputation for fighting. He was strong enough to lift 750 pounds of iron and turn around with it. Steve Forrest Russell remembers that his grandfather was still very strong even into his seventies.
Jim died of a massive stroke. He had been chopping a hole in the ice for his horses to drink water. He made it back to his one-room shack and fell to the floor.
Jim worked several years on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a fireman until 1908. He lived at Renovo. He was the only survivor of his train crew in a spectacular train wreck. It was a head-on collision and he survived by jumping and sliding on top of the rail on his back. He hid behind a tree and watched the engines collide and go up in the air. He watched the engineer burn up in the wreckage and remembers the flames torching his large beard.
Jim homesteaded on the Canadian line near Opheim, Montana for two years. His cousins Gordon and Hazel (Jerome's kids) also lived there. He never proved up on the third year of his homestead. His heart was not in living on the prairie. He loved the mountains and timber and spent the rest of his life in them.
He also lived on a homestead, 120 acres, at the head of big canyon (9.5 miles west of Weippe) during the depression. Jim lived in a dugout house. Jim's place joined the Svboda (locally, they pronounced this sewbody) place on the south. Steve Russell bought the Svboda Ranch, 160 acres. This was the last time Jim tried farming.
Worked as a night watchman at a mill on Cow Creek.
Jim lived in a one-room shack at Lochsa Lodge out just east of the barn and corrals. He raised Airdale dogs. He come through the mountains along the Lolo Motorway with his horse, Coaly, and his dogs.
From Lochsa Lodge, he moved to Victor, Montana and then to Stevensville, Montana.
Steve took his dad Jim back to New York twice to visit. (I think the first time was when they both went back in the 1920s to work on the railroads as firemen. The last time, my dad Clarke remembers was 1948)
Jim had a reputation of being a very hard worker. Steve remembers that his dad never had time to play with him. Jim would help Steve learn how to work but he insisted that he learn the first time.
Jim had a reputation for fighting. He was strong enough to lift 750 pounds of iron and turn around with it. Steve Forrest Russell remembers that his grandfather was still very strong even into his seventies.
Jim died of a massive stroke. He had been chopping a hole in the ice for his horses to drink water. He made it back to his one-room shack and fell to the floor.
NOTE: Jim Russell was married to Cora Elizabeth Callahan and they had a son named Steve Richard Russell
Jim worked several years on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a fireman until 1908. He lived at Renovo. He was the only survivor of his train crew in a spectacular train wreck. It was a head-on collision and he survived by jumping and sliding on top of the rail on his back. He hid behind a tree and watched the engines collide and go up in the air. He watched the engineer burn up in the wreckage and remembers the flames torching his large beard.
Jim homesteaded on the Canadian line near Opheim, Montana for two years. His cousins Gordon and Hazel (Jerome's kids) also lived there. He never proved up on the third year of his homestead. His heart was not in living on the prairie. He loved the mountains and timber and spent the rest of his life in them.
He also lived on a homestead, 120 acres, at the head of big canyon (9.5 miles west of Weippe) during the depression. Jim lived in a dugout house. Jim's place joined the Svboda (locally, they pronounced this sewbody) place on the south. Steve Russell bought the Svboda Ranch, 160 acres. This was the last time Jim tried farming.
Worked as a night watchman at a mill on Cow Creek.
Jim lived in a one-room shack at Lochsa Lodge out just east of the barn and corrals. He raised Airdale dogs. He come through the mountains along the Lolo Motorway with his horse, Coaly, and his dogs.
From Lochsa Lodge, he moved to Victor, Montana and then to Stevensville, Montana.
Steve took his dad Jim back to New York twice to visit. (I think the first time was when they both went back in the 1920s to work on the railroads as firemen. The last time, my dad Clarke remembers was 1948)
Jim had a reputation of being a very hard worker. Steve remembers that his dad never had time to play with him. Jim would help Steve learn how to work but he insisted that he learn the first time.
Jim had a reputation for fighting. He was strong enough to lift 750 pounds of iron and turn around with it. Steve Forrest Russell remembers that his grandfather was still very strong even into his seventies.
Jim died of a massive stroke. He had been chopping a hole in the ice for his horses to drink water. He made it back to his one-room shack and fell to the floor.
Jim worked several years on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a fireman until 1908. He lived at Renovo. He was the only survivor of his train crew in a spectacular train wreck. It was a head-on collision and he survived by jumping and sliding on top of the rail on his back. He hid behind a tree and watched the engines collide and go up in the air. He watched the engineer burn up in the wreckage and remembers the flames torching his large beard.
Jim homesteaded on the Canadian line near Opheim, Montana for two years. His cousins Gordon and Hazel (Jerome's kids) also lived there. He never proved up on the third year of his homestead. His heart was not in living on the prairie. He loved the mountains and timber and spent the rest of his life in them.
He also lived on a homestead, 120 acres, at the head of big canyon (9.5 miles west of Weippe) during the depression. Jim lived in a dugout house. Jim's place joined the Svboda (locally, they pronounced this sewbody) place on the south. Steve Russell bought the Svboda Ranch, 160 acres. This was the last time Jim tried farming.
Worked as a night watchman at a mill on Cow Creek.
Jim lived in a one-room shack at Lochsa Lodge out just east of the barn and corrals. He raised Airdale dogs. He come through the mountains along the Lolo Motorway with his horse, Coaly, and his dogs.
From Lochsa Lodge, he moved to Victor, Montana and then to Stevensville, Montana.
Steve took his dad Jim back to New York twice to visit. (I think the first time was when they both went back in the 1920s to work on the railroads as firemen. The last time, my dad Clarke remembers was 1948)
Jim had a reputation of being a very hard worker. Steve remembers that his dad never had time to play with him. Jim would help Steve learn how to work but he insisted that he learn the first time.
Jim had a reputation for fighting. He was strong enough to lift 750 pounds of iron and turn around with it. Steve Forrest Russell remembers that his grandfather was still very strong even into his seventies.
Jim died of a massive stroke. He had been chopping a hole in the ice for his horses to drink water. He made it back to his one-room shack and fell to the floor.
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