Samuel Russell
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Samuel Russell, was an American entrepreneur and trader, and founder of Russell & Company, the largest and most important American trading house in China from 1824 to its closing in 1891.
Russell's son Samuel Wadsworth
Miniature of his second wife, Frances Ann Osborne, by Henry Colton Shumway.
Howqua
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Wu Bingjian, trading as "Houqua" and better known in the West as "Howqua" or "Howqua II", was a hong merchant in the Thirteen Factories, head of the E-wo hong and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was o
Samuel Russell
…an elaborately decorated interior; Russell had brought back many souvenirs and antiques from China, as well as gifts from his Chinese trade partner, Howqua. On October 6, 1815, Russell was first married to Mary Cotton Osborne, with whom he had two sons, George Osborne Russell and John Augustus Russell…
Portrait, c. 1840–1849
Portrait by an unidentified artist