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Irishman Nicholas Gernon, a blacksmith by trade, was one of the original members of the Ripon Colony, founders of Russell in 1871. He served as director of the Town Site Company well into the mid 1880s. In 1872 he built the family home immediately north of the blacksmith site, and early Catholic Masses were said in the parlor.
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Russell, Kansas · United States
