Charles Handy Russell

Charles Handy Russell (September 13, 1796 – January 21, 1884) Through his uncle Johnathan Russell, he was a first cousin of Jonathan Russell, a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and U.S. Minister to Stockholm who was one of the five commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Ghent with Great Britain in 1814, ending the War of 1812.

His father died in 1801, leaving his mother with four young children to care for. They moved to Bristol and stayed there until his mother's death in 1807 when Charles and his younger brother were under the care of the Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, later the 5th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and attended Bristol Academy. Together, they were the parents of four children: His sister Mary married John Jones Schermerhorn, brother of William Colford Schermerhorn. Her mother was the former Joanna Esther Hone (a niece of Philip Hone, the noted diarist and mayor of New York City), her brother was Joseph Howland, and her sister Catherine married architect Richard Morris Hunt. Together, Charles and Caroline were the parents of seven children, two of whom died in infancy: Samuel Howland Russell (1853–1892), a civil engineer who married Elizabeth Waters Garrettson (1859–1934). Caroline Alice Russell (1854–1919), who married Claes Lagergren, a Swedish nobleman, in 1891. In 1889, the hereditary title of Marquess of Lagergren was conferred on him by Pope Leo XIII. Joanna Hone Russell (1856–1933), who married John Winthrop Auchincloss (1853–1938) in 1881. Mary Grace Russell (1858–1931), who married William Strother Jones IV, a direct descendant of Gabriel Jones.

In 1836, he bought a large tract of land in Newport that later became known as Oaklawn. In 1853, he built the "Oaklawn" house there on Narragansett Avenue, which was enlarged in 1862. After his death, Oaklawn was sold to James Stillman in 1892. Stillman's two daughters were married to two sons of William Rockefeller. The house remained in the Rockefeller family until 1922 when it was demolished to make way for "Bois Doré" in 1926.

Descendants Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Charles Howland Russell Jr. (1891–1965), who married Ethel King, a daughter of LeRoy King (a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant) and Ethel Ledyard (née Rhinelander) King (daughter of Frederic W. Rhinelander) and sister to Frederic Rhinelander King.

Through his daughter Joanna, he was a grandfather of Joseph Howland Auchincloss (1886–1968), and a great-grandfather of lawyer and writer Louis Stanton Auchincloss (1917–2010).