Stillwell H. Russell  Stillwell Heady Russell (1846-1914), commonly known as Stillwell H. Russell or S. H. Russell, was a lawyer, politician, U.S. marshal, member of the Texas Congress, a soldier in the Confederate Army, and, at the time of his death, justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (OSC). Born in Marshall, Harrison County, Texas, he moved to what would become the state of Oklahoma after 1870 and before 1910. Although he lived a relatively full and adventurous life, his career on the OSC was cut short by illness. Re-elected to this high position in the fall of 1914, he died before the end of the calendar year and the beginning of his second term. Russell was born in Brazoria County, Texas on Valentine's Day (February 14), 1846 to William Jarvis (1802-1881) and Eleanor (Heady) Russell (1817-1890). Little about his early life has been published except that he attended the Texas Military Institute and farmed until the U.S. Civil War intruded. He enlisted as a private in the 25th Regiment of the Texas Cavalry, fighting for the Confederate Army. His military career was evidently unremarkable, because he emerged as still a private at the end of hostilities. Returning to civilian life, Russell got a job as a clerk in a Brazoria, Texas dry goods store. He used his spare time to study law in the offices of Lathrop and McCormick. In 1869, he was admitted to the Texas bar, and soon afterwards moved to Galveston, Texas. Russell was selected as City Attorney for both Houston and Galveston in 1870. Texas Governor Edmund Davis appointed Russell as District Attorney, covering both Harrison and Rusk Counties in East Texas. He held that post until 1872, when he was elected sheriff of Harrison County, remaining in that position until 1876. In 1875, he was also a delegate to the Texas State Constitutional Convention, where he served on the committees on the Legislative Department and Revenue and Taxation. Russell decided to run for election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas' 2nd Congressional District. Despite winning endorsements from both the "Tyler Index" and the "Galveston Daily News", his one-term incumbent Democratic opponent, David Culbertson, beat him handily in the 1876 general election. Undaunted, he ran for Harrison County Tax Collector in 1877 and won the post.