Russell Lombard (1830-1902) was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, and
died in Warren, Massachusetts. He was a farmer in Brimfield until the early 1850s when
he became a shoemaker and a leather cutter. He worked in those capacities in Warren in
1855, back in Brimfield by 1860, and then in Chicopee, Massachusetts, by 1865. In 1870
he married Caroline "Carrie" E. Lombard (b. Newton) in Brookfield, Massachusetts, where
she was from. They subsequently settled in Warren, and Lombard worked in a boot factory
and a boot shop until he retired sometime before 1900. In 1886 Lombard was sent a copy
of
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by his
acquaintance Sarah A. Moore, a Christian Scientist in Warren who later became a student
of Mary Baker Eddy. Lombard was a member of the Mason's Quaboag Lodge in Warren and also
of the Universalist church.
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