The house at 7 Manning St. appears first in the 1893 Ipswich Birdseye map. The 1910 Ipswich map shows the owner as E W. Russell, who worked as a dyer at the Ipswich Mills.
Edward W. Russell, the son of Andrew and Dorothy Russell was a shoemaker from Ipswich when he enlisted for the Civil War in 1862 at the age of 27, and was in the Civil War.
BIRTH: 6 Feb. 1835
DEATH: 13 May 1928 (aged 93), buried at Highland Cemetery in Ipswich