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Isaac Russell Elwood (Rochester, New York, attorney and telegraph treasurer and secretary)

b. 1804? d. 1863-02-27

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.

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Bibliography

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.

Citation

Elwood, Isaac Russell. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202493 (January 13, 2026).

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