Patricia Russell, Countess Russell Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, who became a prominent historian and one of the leading figures in the Liberal Democrat party. They had an acrimonious separation in 1949. Patricia Russell, Countess Russell Patricia Russell, Countess Russell (1910–2004) was the third wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell, and a significant contributor to his book "A History of Western Philosophy". Countess Russell was born Marjorie Helen Spence in 1910. As her parents had always wanted a boy, she was known as 'Peter'. She met Bertrand Russell in 1930 when she was a twenty-year-old undergraduate at the University of Oxford, hired by Russell's second
John J. Dewey Without outbreak of the Civil War, Dewey helped organize the Minnesota 9th Infantry Regiment and was appointed its Surgeon. After short service, he resigned on health grounds. He also retired from his medical practice in 1881, 15 years prior to his death. He died at age 69 of pneumonia in Saint Paul and is buried there. Dewey's brother was Nelson Dewey, the first Governor of Wisconsin. John J. Dewey John Jay "J.J." Dewey (September 9, 1822 – April 1, 1891) was an American physician and Minnesota territorial legislator. Dewey was born in Butternuts, New York. He was educated at Hamilton