The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-03
DAN K. RUSSELL.
The History ola Nan Who 10
40 Well Known In Sodalia
20 Elsewhere.
The Wreck Of . 0nce Popular
Comedian and Husbsud Of
Adah Isaacs DGenken.

call to mind Dan X. Rua.elI, Who cone
years ago came here snd In company viih
his wife and Ed. Sylvestes gave seversl en-.
iertsinment. in Smiths Hall. They had
been playing wiih . company that broke
up in this city. ard took this method Of
making a rsise. Russell snd his vile II.
'erwsrd kept house on East Main .ireei.
remaining for . number VI weeks. The
following FROM the 81. Louis Rs,..Li;nus
tells Ot poor ID me hard luck:
Standing On Fourth street nj dusk last
evening vere u quartet of geniIe@eo evil
IDENTIFY amused NJ the facial grimscszs and
Who had seen better days. This latter M
dividu.l was dr-s--d in dark clothing, an
alpaca coat covering his -omevhsi sioop-
ing and rounded shoulder, and q slSuch
hat his he.d. Hi face il the f.ce of .
horn comedisn, and his name IL Dan X.
Rus-eli. There IL history about him ,hss IL
Interesting in thst il rrlste- to one that IL
known in two hemirphere-, Ad.h Isaac.
Menken. ThU-~ who clam To know say
this man was Menken's second husband
Russell himself. although nov an imb~ciie
end unable To gather his Thoughts. searm
hers enough io write IN . slip al paper the
dates upon which he married ~nd "a. sep.
araie,i from her. He gives ~ the date al
the marriage the year 1855, and the date
"f the SEPARATION the year 1897. A. tina,
time Russ~li ws- bul twenty years of age,
hut had achieved n reputation ~ . com~.
dian. lie had made his debut NJ the Front
.:reet theaier, in Baltimore. When Q boy,
and leaving there had PLACED in the great
eastern and western cities before appearing
=, New Orlesns. He played siih Forrest
in that great actors palmie-i days, nd
sith the elder Booth At Chicago and C,n.
cinnssi. M~nken. on the other hand, was
81 this time unknown To the theatrical ard
.que-iriss world. Her real name s,s
Adelaide McCord, and she v.s q native os
Louisiana. She vas not Jewe-. By birth
but became one after marrying M~aken. .
Jew Who came from M one knovs where
Ii VS. after her separation from Menken
that Russell IL s.id to have married her.
They lived together for too yessr, ~ a.
ready noted. aud then M~nken vent her
way aud kns-sii his. Shortly after her
return "a Europe she died suddenly in
P-ris, AMI was buried in Pere In Chs,.e.
While dying she wroie her own epiiaph.
Sculpiured on the cold stone white hand
,oints uPwsrd-b-nesihi II il the simple in
-cripiiUi,:
THnr KNowE~T.
:" much for the woman. A. I.r Ru..
-el!. lee continued. a. she did, his profession
md secured fame and wealth. In tie
h.. L.. q
theater IN x snsas City. and "a. considered
veil Cd In this worlds eo,sia. His last sp-
~srance wa- in Mscsuley's ihester in
loni.ville On the night Of January H..
1879. lie wss then playing With the Mil
ton J.sper combination, appearing in the
role of fscial arti.t and playing Brown.
the iTsee.iisn." When upon the stage and
actin. hi. part, he "a. stricken by par ,ly.
ale, which has robbed him Of his inteIIec,
and ,u- ,nory. While drifting about The
worla b. came here 10 St. Loui., where he
wss ga mly received and cared for BIZ The
veil known 81. Lou-ian. Frank Anr 10,
who had formerly led the orchsstis in
Rus~ellia th~aies in Kansas CITY, and ~ho
has not forgotten his old friend and en-.
ployer. One thing mentioned lsss nixhs
ny Iho-e surrounding the man vss the
con,rs-, between him and Menken's other
husband. One Of them vas Menken, not
known or remembered. but the other tvo
we're Orpheus G. Kerr. the humoriss, and
John c. Hesnsn. the pueilist one the in
carr alton nj unressoning brute force, the
other an ideal type If the shy, shrinking
man Of letters. Compare them With Rue.
ell and the contrast j. complete. Those
gathered around last night wondered how
one woman could at different times IN her
career have br~n attracted TO men 80 dia-
meiricalIy opposite in character and dis
position hut the fact remsin..
Russell wa- horn in Baltimore nearly
fifiv wears ago. Tie X in his meme sssnds
for kness-. and he claims tn hsv. taken
iha' name from bis uncle, Nelson K"eass,
who wrote the famous song Ben Bnlt."
Rodgers and ,t,ie Wicker. nov per.
forming at Chrigs Gave. IN this CITY. we're
members of the Mil,"n-J .sper comhina-
'ion upon the night Rn-~eI! vac stricken
down with paralysis.