Isaac Russell Elwood

Birth Date

c1804

Death Date

1863-02-27

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Rochester, Monroe County, New York, attorney and telegraph officer. Otsego County, New York, native. Married to Elizabeth H. Gold Elwood on June 14, 1849. Father of Frank W. Elwood, Agnes R. Elwood, and Elizabeth H. Elwood. Resident of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, in 1850. Attorney in Rochester in 1860. Secretary of the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. Treasurer and Secretary of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Monroe County, Rochester, 5th Ward, p. 188A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New York, Monroe County, Rochester, 5th Ward, p. 11.
"The Death of Isaac R. Elwood, Esq.," The New York Times (New York, N.Y.), March 2, 1863, p. 2.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 53, John Reynolds Totten, ed. (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922), 7-8.
"Isaac Russell Elwood (1800-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6761628, accessed April 11, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6761628.

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