From: Evans, Nelson W, and Emmons B. Stivers. A History of Adams County, Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to
the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of
the Country's Growth. West Union, O: E B. Stivers, 1900.
Daniel A. Russell
who succeeded Judge Joseph P. Bradbury in the circuit court of the fourth circuit in 1889, was born on a farm
in Athens County, September 2, 1840, and when three years old was taken into Meigs County. Until the age
of sixteen, he attended the district schools, when he spent two hears at the Ohio University at Athens, and
two more years at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. In 1860, he accepted a position in the
treasurer's offic in Meigs County. July 16, 1861, he enlisted in Co. E, 4th Virginia Infantry. He was promoted
for bravery to second lieutenant, August 22, 1861, first lieutenant in September, 1862, and captain, January 2,
1863. He was at Haine's Bluff and at the siege of Vicksburg and was twice wounded. He was at the battles of
Cherokee Station, Jackson, Miss., Missionary Ridge, and afterwards at Piedmont, Lexington, Lynchburg,
Winchester, and other engagements in the valley of Virginia. He was discharged September 11, 1864, and
re-entered the service, Feburary 3, 1865, as major of the 187th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served
as such until January 21, 1866, when he was mustered out. He at once entered the Cincinnati Law School
and remained there until April, 1866, when he was admitted to the bar. He located at Pomeroy in the practice
of the law. In 1873, he was a member of the Constitutional Convention from Meigs County. He was city
solicitor of Pomeroy from 1873 to 1879. From 1874, he was in partnership with his brother, Charles F., until
his election to the circuit bench in 1889. he was re-elected in 1893, and is serving his second term. As a
judge, he is careful and painstaking, and aims to see each case in all its bearings. He seeks to ascertain
and apply every principle of law bearing on thematter in hand, and after listening to one of his decisions, the
bar feel that he has exhausted the subject. As a lawyer, he stood high, as a judge, none is more careful to
apply the correct principles of law, and none has a higher sense of honor and justice. His career as a judge
has given general satisfaction to the bar and to litigants.