Memoir of John Lewis Russell is a book written by Edmund Burke Willson in 1874. The book is a memoir of the life of John Lewis Russell, who was a prominent American journalist and newspaper editor during the mid-19th century. Russell was born in 1822 in New Hampshire and began his career as a printer's apprentice at the age of 14. He went on to work for several newspapers and eventually became the editor of the New York Tribune.The book provides a...