Thomas russell ybarra wife
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YOUNG MAN OF CARACAS $3.00 ByT. R. YbarraIVES WASHBURN
PRESIDENT GRANT is responsible for this book: it was at his request that Judge Russell of Boston went as our Minister to Venezuela in 1874. With the Judge went his wife and his three bouncing daughters, and when Nelly, aged sixteen and the prettiest, took to sitting in the window she brought the Venezuelan army to a halt. The Judge had a good sense of humor (as we see by his letters back home), but Nelly had a better — and well she did have, for as the wife of General Alejandro Ybarra she had more ups and downs than she would ever have known on Pinckney Street. She referred to her beautifully uniformed soldier as ‘The Boomer,’ and with her philosophic grin and her Irish bodyguard, ‘Yessie’ Sullivan, she enjoyed whatever life had to offer. When the General was in favor, and so in command of the Venezuelan soldiery, the Ybarras lived in state, and Tom, their son, had a pony and was petted by the guard; but when he quarreled wit
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Thomas Russell (Massachusetts judge)
American jurist and government official
Thomas Russell (September 26, 1825 – February 9, 1887) was an American jurist and government official who served as Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston, United States Minister Resident to Venezuela, and Massachusetts Commissioner of Railroads.
Early life
[edit]Russell was born on September 26, 1825, to Thomas and Mary Ann (Goodwin) Russell. His father served as Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts.[1] Russell graduated from Harvard College in 1845 and studied law at Harvard Law School and in the office of Jacob H. Loud.[2] In 1847 he moved to Boston and continued his studies in the office of Whiting & Russell.[2][3] He was admitted to the bar on November 12, 1849.[3]
Government service
[edit]On February 26, 1852, Russell was appointed justice of the Boston Police Court. When the Massachusetts Superior Court was created i