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Samuel Russell (8/25/1789- 5/5/1862)
Samuel Wadsworth Russell, born in Middletown, Connecticut (August 25, 1789 – May 5, 1862), was an American entrepreneur and trader, and founder of Russell & Company, the largest and most important American trading house in China from 1842 to its closing in 1891.
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