Background
Russell, James Solomon was born on December 20, 1857 in Palmer’s Springs, Virginia, United States. Son of Solomon and Araminta (Russell) Russell.
Russell, James Solomon was born on December 20, 1857 in Palmer’s Springs, Virginia, United States. Son of Solomon and Araminta (Russell) Russell.
Student Hampton (Virginia) Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1874-1878. Saint Stephen’s Normal Training School, St. Petersburg, Virginia, 1878-1882. Studied languages pvtly., 1879-1882.
Branch Theological Seminary of Virginia, St. Petersburg, 1878-1882.
Doctor of Divinity, Theological Seminary Virginia, 1917. Doctor of Laws, College of Liberia, Monrovia, Africa, 1922.
Deacon, 1882, priest, 1887, Protestant Episcopal Church. At Lawrenceville. Virginia, since 1882, founder, 1888, and principal Saint Paul Normal and Industrial School (colored). Architecture-deacon of colored work in Southern Virginia.
Elected suffragan bishop Diocese of Arkansas, 1917 (declined), also of North Carolina, 1918 (declined).
Mason.
Married Virginia M. Morgan, December 20, 1882 (died 1920). Children: Mistress Araminta Czarina Turner, James Alvin, Mistress Otelia Virginia Deane, Herman Webster, Mistress Charlotte Baylies Birchette.