- A National Award Winning Bed & Breakfast Experience Nestled in the heart of Mount Vernon, Ohio, America's Hometown, this remarkable High Victorian mansion is the former home of two prominent Ohio families. Dr. John Russell, physician and surgeon, was the first American to employ a female physician, Dr. Jane Payne, in 1852. His son-in-law, colonel William Cooper, a colonel in the Civil War with ...www.russell-cooper.com