Russell M. Little (December 28, 1809 in

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, Berkshire County, Massachusetts – December 11, 1891 in

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) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was a minister of the

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, and took up his pastoral duties in 1831 at Columbiaville, in

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. In August 1832, he married Nancy Blair, and they had several children. In 1842, due to pulmonary disease, he abandoned the ministry, and became instead Secretary of the Dividend Mutual Insurance Company at Glens Falls. He was a member of the New York State Senate (16th D.) in 1862 and

1863 Events January–March * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states an official war goal. It proclaim ...

. He was President of the Glens Falls Insurance Company from 1864 until his death, and lived in the Russell M. Little House.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 443)
''Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and the Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1862 and '63''
by William D. Murphy (1863; pg. 81ff)
''OBITUARY; RUSSELL M. LITTLE''
in NYT on December 12, 1891 {{DEFAULTSORT:Little, Russell M 1809 births 1891 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators People from Peru, Massachusetts Politicians from Glens Falls, New York 19th-century American legislators