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 Fletcher Russell once held. He became president of Teachers College in 1949, retired in 1954, then served as deputy director for Technical Services of the International Cooperation Administration. Russell died 1956 in Washington D.C. of a heart attack. William Fletcher Russell William Fletcher Russell (May 18, 1890 - March 26, 1956) was a U.S. educator, and dean (1927-1949) and president (1949-1954) of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City. Russell was born in Delhi, New York. The son of James Earl Russell graduated from Cornell University in 1910, and made PhD at Columbia University in 1914. From 1917 to 1923, he was