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.
William Huntington Russell Yale class of 1833
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.
William Huntington Russell
…Hooker, Willett, Bingham, and Russell. His ancestor, Rev. Noadiah Russell, was a founder and original trustee of Yale College. William's older cousin, Samuel Russell, founded the successful merchant trading firm Russell & Co. in 1823, but William was never associated with this firm. Russell was a cadet at Alden…
Russell's son Samuel Wadsworth
Miniature of his second wife, Frances Ann Osborne, by Henry Colton Shumway.