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19. C-Founder Skull and Bones Russell William Huntingdon-74489 (Matthew Talcott , Noadiah , William , Noadiah , William , Progenitor ) was born in 1809. He died in 1885.
General. He has a step-brother Samuel Russell of Russell and Co. Businessman educator politician. His own wikipedia page. Per Linda Minor data. He has a cousin, Samuel Wadsworth Russell. Is he a general? Is supposed to have been at Yale in 1833 class and set up the Skull and Bones Club, or Russell Trust Foundation, as co-founder with Alonso Taft. He is of Middleton, CT. He is variously a step-brother cousin or nephew of Samuel Wadsworth Russell qv. He co-founded Skull and Bones at Yale with Alphnso Taft. He was a partner in a freight company, Russell, Majors and Waddell, shifting mail (Pony Express). An activist in the group which helped found The Republican Party. An abolitionist and a friend of abolitionist John Brown. Had fought on the Union side in Civil War.
William married Hubbard Mary Elizabeth-78593 daughter of Professor at Yale Hubbard Thomas-531373 and Gray Lucy-531374 in 1836. Mary was born in 1816.
wargs website on Ancestry of Senator John Kerry.
William and Mary had the following children:
+ 27 M i Russell Talcott Huntington-531372 was born in 1847. He died in 1917. 28 M ii Dr MD Russell Thomas Hubbard Jnr-531368 was born in 1886.
Named in Anon., author of the article Before Skull and Bones, at http://www.smokershistory/before.html, a 43-page article, from a rabid website railing against the US anti-smoking movement, apparently from Carol A. S. Thompson, Madiscon, Wisconsin, USA.Thomas married Munson Miss-449080 daughter of Munson Progenitor-531415 and MNotknown Miss-531416.
Named in Anon., author of the article Before Skull and Bones, at http://www.smokershistory/before.html, a 43-page article, from a rabid website railing against the US anti-smoking movement, apparently from Carol A. S. Thompson, Madiscon, Wisconsin, USA.29 M iii Russell Philip Gray I-531384.
Examiner in US Patent Office 1878-1882. Later a patent lawyer with George S. Prindle. Named in Anon., author of the article Before Skull and Bones, at http://www.smokershistory/before.html, a 43-page article, from a rabid website railing against the US anti-smoking movement, apparently from Carol A. S. Thompson, Madiscon, Wisconsin, USA.30 M iv Russell Edward Hubbard-531385 was born in 1855 in New Haven CT. He died in 1928 in New Haven CT.
Unmarried.31 M v Russell Lucy Gray-359915. 32 F vi Russell Frances Harriet-359916. 33 F vii Russell Henrietta-532247. 34 F viii Russell Mary Talcott-532248.
20. Terry Alfred-434085 (Catherine Wadsworth , Mehitable Russell , William , Noadiah , William , Progenitor ) was born in 1802 in Hartford CT. He died in 1874.
Alfred married Howe Clarissa-434086 daughter of General Howe Hezekiah-531405 and Townsend Sarah-531406.
They had the following children:
21. Opium trader, Levant trader Russell Samuel Wadsworth-59582 (John , Samuel , William , Noadiah , William , Progenitor ) was born in 1789 in Middletown CT. He was christened in 1823 in active. He died in 1862.
He is son of John son of Samuel son of William son of Noadiah son of William. Does he have sons Talcott Huntington Russell born 1847 and Edward Hubbard Russell born 1855 He has son Samuel Wadsworth Jnr and a great-grandson Thomas MacDonough Russell Jnr. He married (1) Mary Cotton Osborn who died young and (2) to her sister Frances Ann Osborn. He had a sister Lucy W who m to Henry G Bowers, He has a He has an uncle Matthew Talcott merchant of Middletown. He is brother of Edward A. Russell. One view is that he is son of Captain John Russell (1765-1801) He is an orphan from age 12 and had no useful inheritance but became fabulously wealthy. Founder of Russell and Co, traders to China, in 1841 which closed in 1891. His own wikipedia page. Slaver. Began as apprentice clerk to Whittesley and Alsop of Middletown. Moved to New York in 1810 and part of Hull and Griswold. Began sailing as supercargo, and began Russell and Co in 1824 (with John Cushing and Philip Ammidon) as a commission trader for Hull and Griswold. Handled Bengal and Turkish opium. Friend with Samuel D. Hubbard. Code-US He is descended from Jeremiah Wadsworth who had dealt with Mass and VT for ginseng. Is he partner with the Lows? He first worked with Whittesley and Alsop, then with Hull and Griswold of New York with links to CT. Began sailing as a supercargo. Russell and Co began as a commission trader for Hull and Griswold. He arrived in Canton in 1819 trading for Edward Carrington and Co (and other Providence Rhode Island merchants) re opium, silks, teas. Dealt with Howqua of Canton. Returned to Middletown CT his home town. In 1824 established Russell and Co with John Cushing and Phillip Ammidon. Friends with Samuel D. Hubbard. Http says he has a cousin, William Huntingdon Russell, the co-founder of Skull and Bones Club at Yale. Note that Smyrna opium is handled by English Levant Co. He is active by 1823 in email and http by Linda Minor her email of 6-11-2000. In 1823 he establishes Russell and Co to take opium from Turkey to China, after being forced out of the African slave trade. His operations link back in US to Daniel C. Bacon. Linked to Parsi merchants, opium growers. Retired from Russell and Co in 1836, went into industry, banking and Western railroad stock. He latterly formed Russell Manufacturing Co., made cotton webbing for hoop skirts, lawn chairs, There is a William Russell (3) who marries Mary a sister-in-law to one Jonathan Edwards. There is a Yale Trustee William Russell (1754-1761) who seems a grandson of Yale Family Chart man Rev Nodiah Russell one of ten men founding Yale University in 1701. In 1823-1824 was created firm Russell and Co. at Canton, a successor to Samuel Russell and Co, of 1819, both firms dealing in opium. and to the 1850s, the US Consul at Canton was usually a Russell and Co. merchant. Their agent at Shanghai of 1845 was Henry C. Wolcott, acting US consul. Russell and Co. (closed in 1891) opened in Shanghai in 1846, firstly with John N. A Griswold qv, who had a partner, one Edward Cunningham. In 1828 he built Samuel Wadsworth Russell House, in Middletown CT. Cf., Alain Munkittrick, "Samuel Wadsworth Russell (1789-1862): A Study of Ordered Investment". MA thesis, Wesleyan University, 1973. He is a cousin of William Huntington Russell. Died worth about $630,000.
See Anon., author of the article Before Skull and Bones, at http://www.smokershistory/before.html, a 43-page article, from a rabid website railing against the US anti-smoking movement, apparently from Carol A. S. Thompson, Madiscon, Wisconsin, USA.
Russell & Co. Go Out of Business, 1891 - Partners of the Russell and Co. firm to 1891 consisted of W.H. Forbes, H.D. Forbes, John M. Forbes Jr. of New York, C. Vincent Smith, George M. Wheeler, S.W. Pomeroy (who opened the New York branch in 1878), and E.H.M. Huntington. (Russell & Co. in Trouble. New York Times, Jun. 4, 1891.) The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation was a creditor, and it had an account at the National Bank of Commerce. Mr. Beaman of Evarts, Choate & Beaman was counsel for the firm. The partners were listed as W.H. and H.D. Forbes of Hongkong, S.W. Pomeroy of London, E.H.M. Huntington of Paris, and John M. Forbes Jr. of New York. Henry Hannah was manager of the New York branch. Former partners included A.A. Low, N.L. Griswold, George Griswold, and Paul Forbes. (The Suspension of Russell & Co. New York Times, Jun. 5, 1891.) The deed assigning it to Henry Hannah, was signed by John Murray Forbes, and listed Howell Forbes of Hong Kong, John Murray Forbes of Morristown, N.J., Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy of London, Charles Vincent Smith of Shanghai, and Charles Alexander Tomes of Hong Kong. (Business Troubles. New York Sun, Jun. 10, 1891.)
Samuel married (1) wife2 Osborn Frances Ann-359791 daughter of Osborn Progenitor-531100 and ONotknown Miss-531102 about 1835. Frances was born on 4 Dec 1798.
She is named in an item on Samuel Wadsworth Russell House, National Historic Landmark Nomination USA, website on.
Samuel and Frances had the following children:
+ 36 M i Vice-Pres Russell Manufacturing Company Russell Samuel Wadsworth Jnr-531142 was born on 25 Aug 1837.
Samuel married (2) wife1 Osborn Mary Cotton-531101 daughter of Osborn Progenitor-531100 and ONotknown Miss-531102. Mary was born in 1796. She died in 1819.
They had the following children:
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