William Howard Russell Brompton Cemetery, London. He married twice. His first marriage was to Mary Burrows, of Irish origin. After her death in 1867, he married Countess Antoinette Malvezzi, an Italian. They remained married until his death. Russell's dispatches via telegraph from the Crimea remain as his legacy; for the first time he brought the realities of war home to readers. This helped diminish the distance between the home front and remote battle fields. Russell's war reporting (often in semi-verbatim form) features prominently in Northern Irish poet Ciarán Carson's reconstruction of the Crimean War in "Breaking News" (2003). His biography was written by
William Howard Brett the School of Information & Library Science in 1986. The American Library Association (ALA) was honored to have William Howard Brett as their president from 1896 to 1897. Mr. Brett was a founding member and first president of the Ohio Library Association. He was elected into the Notable Ohio Libraries Hall Of Fame by the Ohio Library Council in 1975. William Howard Brett was from "a generation who believed in service to their country and to each other". He was a veteran who served in the 196th Ohio Regiment during the Civil War and work tirelessly for the American Library