Russell, S. R. (Samuel Reid), 1880-1943

Samuel Reid Russell was born in Belfast, Ireland, on December 27, 1880. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1904 and joined E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. as a salesman in the Nashville office in 1907. He was soon transferred to the Technical Division of the Explosives Dept., where he rose to the position of Senior technician and a leader in the rigging and supervising of dynamite blasts for demolition, quarrying, and harbor deepening. He died suddenly in the morning of July 7, 1943, in a hotel in Easton, Pa., where he was about to supervise a blast.

Explosives engineer and dynamite expert.

Samuel Reid Russell was born in Belfast, Ireland, on December 27, 1880. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1904 and joined E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company as a saleman in the Nashville office in 1907. He was soon transferred to the Technical Division, where he rose to the position of Senior Technician and a leader in rigging and supervising dynamite blasts for demolition, quarrying and harbor deepening. He died suddenly in the morning of July 7, 1943, in a hotel in Easton, Pa., where he was about to supervise a blast.