William H. Russell person

“Skull and Bones was founded in 1832 by William H. Russell, a wealthy Yalie (not to be redundant) who imported the idea of a secret student society from Germany, where he had studied abroad for a year.…”

“Eventually, William Russell would become the first Irish-American Catholic mayor of New York City in 1880. He was actually opposed publicly to Tammany Hall. He was considered a reformer. In some of the reforms, he addressed police scandals,…”

“Born in 1832 in Ireland to a pretty wealthy family. Him and his father would travel to Calau, Peru in 1851 to try to establish an Irish agricultural community. His father would leave a few years later, but William stays behind and goes to w…”

“basically consolidating their plan to basically overthrow the U.S. education system. It says that's when he helped set up the Russell Trust and Gilman became treasurer and William Russell, the co-founder, was the president of it. It's also,…”

“Eventually, William Russell would become the first Irish-American Catholic mayor of New York City in 1880. He was actually opposed publicly to Tammany Hall. He was considered a reformer. In some of the reforms, he addressed police scandals,…”

“He went after organized vice, tried to reduce the tax rates, and he actually broke up what's called the Louisiana Lottery Company. At the time, the Louisiana Lottery Company ran the only legalized gambling operation in America, and it was f…”

“One of the people that was intimately involved in this was a guy by the name of William Russell. He was in Germany in 1931 and 32. He studied Hegelian theory while he was there. So, again, he comes back to the United States and is an instru…”