George Russell James Bowdoin (1809-1870)

He was born in Massachusetts and changed his name when he turned twenty-one in 1830 from George Russell Sullivan to George Russell James Bowdoin in compliance with the will of his maternal great-uncle, James Bowdoin, the founder of Bowdoin College and the only son of James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts. He graduated from West Point and in 1846 was appointed Lt.‑Colonel of the 4th Regiment of New York Volunteers. In New York he was a lawyer and senior partner with Bowdoin, Larocque, & Barlow. He married a granddaughter of U.S. Statesman Alexander Hamilton and they had one child who survived to adulthood. He died in London.