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Samuel Russell (Yale co-founder)

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Residence of Rev. Samuel Russell,Branford, Connecticut, where founders ofYale College met.

Samuel Russell (4 November 1660 – 24 June 1731^[1]) was one of the founders ofYale University.^[2]^[3]

He was born inHadley, Massachusetts, the second son ofRev. John Russell^[4] and Rebecca Newberry Russell.

He graduated fromHarvard College in 1681 and wasordained while teaching at Hadley, Massachusetts. On 12 September 1687, he was elected pastor of the church atBranford, Connecticut, where he officiated for the remainder of his life. The founders ofYale University met in his study in Branford to contribute their books to the founding of the University. The doors of the Samuel Russell house in Branford are preserved in the 1742 Room ofSterling Memorial Library atYale.^[5]

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^McCracken, George E. (1980). "Ancestry of President Rutherford B. Hayes,"The American Genealogist 56 (1980): 160-169; 230-236.
^Kelley, B. M. (1974). "Yale", Yale University Press.
^Russell, Gurdon Wadsworth (1910). Welles, Edwin Stanley (ed.).An Account of Some of the Descendants of John Russell. Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. pp. 131-133. Retrieved5 April 2018.gurdon wadsworth russell.
^Sibley, John Langdon (1885).Sibley's Harvard Graduates, Volume 3. Massachusetts Historical Society. pp. 236–238.
^Federal Writers' Project (31 October 2013).The WPA Guide to Connecticut: The Constitution State. Trinity University Press.ISBN 9781595342065.

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