[4] She was trained in habits of industry, morals and the severe theologies of the day, after the belief of the Congregationalists.

[1] After a short stay at home, she went to New York City with the intention of fitting herself by further study for a higher position as a teacher.

This did not occur as soldiers wounded in the First Battle of Bull Run were being brought in and needed care.

Then Russell, her mother and her sister began providing care ti the sick and wounded at 194 Broadway, known as the New England Soldiers' Relief Association.

the matron's salary was small and Russell was often at a loss for means to relieve the many cases which appealed to her and for which the government at that time had made no provision.

Russell accompanied 30 of the more helpless of the inmates to Augusta where they found shelter in the town hall until another building could be obtained.

In company with a woman who was an old friend, she visited Naples, Florence, Rome, and London, but before the year was up, she was summoned to take charge of the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga Springs, New York, and later, had a similar position in A. T. Stewart's Hotel in Park Avenue, New York.

She remained here two years, and spent the two following summers as matron of the Oriental Hotel in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York.

[4][1] It was about the year 1888 when, being called to open and manage a coffee house in Minneapolis in the interest of the WCTU, she felt that the opportunity of her life to do good had come.

[10] From 1905, she made her winter residence in Miami, Florida where she sustained a severe fall in the spring of 1910 from which she never recovered.