Russell Military Academy
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The New Haven Collegiate and Commercial Institute was founded by Stiles French in 1834 and is a defunct military academy and college preparatory school that "fitted" students to apply for entrance to
New Haven Collegiate and Commercial Institute in 1860
William Huntington Russell
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William Huntington Russell was an American businessman, educator, and politician. Notably, he was a co-founder of the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones, along with Alphonso Taft.
Russell Military Academy
…students. Although Stiles French and his son Truman French continued to be involved with the school for many years, it was taken over in September 1836 by William Huntington Russell, a recent Yale graduate and school teacher who later became a well-known citizen of Connecticut as a non-practicing graduate of the Yale Medical School…
William Huntington Russell Yale class of 1833