“ Jonathan Russell, her grand-uncle, was one of the commissioners who negotiated the concluding treaty with Great Britain in Ghent, and later was minister plenipotentiary to Sweden. His wife was educated in the school of Madame Campan, in St. Germain, and received a gold medal from Napoleon I, in 1807, for her skill in drawing and painting. ”

“ Later she visited Europe, twice as correspondent for New York and western papers, and after she became the wife or Robert P. Porter, journalist and statistician. she accompanied him on his industrial investigations abroad. She wrote a series of letters for a syndicate, embracing thirty of the principal journals of the country, and special letters to the New York " World," Philadelphia "Press," "National Tribune," and. ”