Russell Sturgis (1805–1887)
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Russell Sturgis was a Boston merchant active in the China trade, and later head of Baring Brothers in London.
Painted by Anna Lea Merritt
Russell and Sturgis's former office along the Pasig River in Manila, 1900.
Russell & Company
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Russell & Company was the largest American trading house of the 19th century in China. It specialised in the trade of tea, silk, and opium, and was later involved in the maritime transport.
Russell Sturgis (1805–1887)
…English portraitist George Chinnery. In Asia, he entered a succession of trading firms (Russell & Sturgis of Manila; Russell, Sturgis & Co. of Canton; Russell & Co.), and in 1842 he became a full partner. In 1844, Sturgis retired to Boston to rejoin his children who had been sent there to school after their mother's…
Canton headquarters, c. 1880