St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat 19 April 1925 Charles Russell, former resident, famous and most honored. There was much talent in his family (the Meade's, the Bent's, and the Russell's) "Lucy Meade, one of the most talented tigrls in the art school class of 1904 -- that famous World's Fair class -- is his cousin." "Romanc and adventure were in the air his infant nostrils inhaled...He had no teacher but nature, no discipline bu that of a dominating desire to achieve."