William Ingraham Russell

Born in Brooklyn in 1850, William Ingraham Russell was an American writer remembered for The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York. Records from the Library of Congress, Project Gutenberg, and archival editions point to that book as the work most closely associated with his name.

The book was published in the early 20th century and presents the life of a New York businessman through a mix of memoir, social observation, and personal drama. That combination gives his writing a direct, lived-in quality, especially for listeners interested in older firsthand narratives about business and city life.

Russell died in 1925. While not much widely documented biographical detail survives, his work has remained accessible through major public archives, which has helped preserve his place as a small but interesting voice in American nonfiction writing.