William Howard Russell 1850. Initially sent by editor John Delane to Malta to cover British support for the Ottoman Empire against Russia in 1854, Russell despised the term "war correspondent" but his coverage of the conflict brought him international renown, and Florence Nightingale later credited her entry into wartime nursing to his reports. The Crimean medical care, shelter and protection of all ranks by Mary Seacole was also publicised by Russell and by other contemporary journalists, rescuing her from bankruptcy. Russell was described by one of the soldiers on the frontlines thus: "a vulgar low Irishman, [who] sings a good song, drinks anyone's
Howard William Stull as a Republican to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Russell Leech. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1932. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Interment in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown. Howard William Stull Howard William Stull (April 11, 1876 – April 22, 1949) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Howard W. Stull was born on a farm near Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He attended the Johnstown High School, and State Normal School (later State Teachers’ College) in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He was employed