William Goodwin Russell '40.

William Goodwin Russell of the class '40 died last Thursday at his home 178 Beacon street, of heart disease. He had been ill since last October.

Mr. Russell was born in Plymouth in 1821. He graduated with the class of 1840 in his nineteenth year. He then entered the Law School from which he graduated in 1845. He began practice in Boston and won a reputation in mercantile insurance and railroad litigation. He had an extended practice before the United States supreme court and in the celebrated Credit-Mobilier case, as counsel for the defendant, he successfully opposed the claim of the national government to recover millions of dollars from the Union Pacific Railroad.