Individual Details

1860 Census. New Haven City 4th Ward, New Haven Co, CT, Hh 445
Wm H. Russell, 50, Principal High School, b. CT as was the whole family
Mary E., 44
Frances, 20 (female)
Henrietta L., 18
Talcott H., 13
Thomas A., 8
Philip G., 6
Edward H., 4
Mary Hamilton, 30, servant, b. Ireland
Rosa Flood, 22, Servant, b. Ireland
Patrick Cocran, 28, Laborer, b. Ireland

1870 Census. New Haven Ward 4, New Haven Co, CT, Hh 89
William H. Russell, 59, Collegiate School
Mary E., 52
Harriet, 30
Henreitta, 28
Talcott H., 23
Thomas H., 18
Phillip G., 16
Edward H., 15
Robert G., 7
Maria Manning, 45, housekeeper, b. Halifax
Mary Sullivan, 28, Chamber Maid, b. Ireland
Susan Runan, 45, Cook, b. Ireland
Maggie Welch, 26, Cook, b. Ireland
Anna Mallory, 22, Master, b. Ireland
follows on next two pages - the list of workers, students, and teachers at the school - Wm H. Russell's Collegiate & Commercial School - one of the students i Robert COMSTOCK, at 15, b. CT

http://wherethegoldis.blogspot.com/2012/01/life-and-ancestry-of-william-huntington.html
General Russell was born August 12, 1809 , in Middletown, Connecticut , where three of his ancestors had been pastors of the First Congregational Church, a continuous period of one hundred and eighteen years, and his father, deacon for thirty years. Before entering Yale he was for several years a cadet in the famous military academy founded and conducted by Captain Alden Partridge (U.S.A.), a graduate of West Point, and for twelve years previously professor and military superintendent at the National Academy at West Point. 
This academy [Russell's] was similar to West Point, having as an object the preparation of young men "to command in time of need the hastily raised troops of a great and growing nation," and General Sherman stated that it at one time almost rivaled the National Academy at West Point. It was these years of strict military discipline that gave General Russell such a knowledge of military affairs and influenced his life work. The death of his father [Matthew Talcott Russell], aged sixty-eight, from acute erysipelas, and changes in the fortunes of the family threw the care of his mother (who had vigorous health to the age of eighty-seven) upon him, and he subsequently entered Yale under circumstances of severe financial adversity. He was self-supporting in college, and in all his frequent journeys between New Haven and his home in Middletown (twenty-six miles) was obliged to go on foot, owing to financial necessity. Such was his ability and industry that, in spite of these impediments, he graduated as valedictorian in 1833, at the head of a class which in sophomore year numbered one hundred and twenty-two students, among whom were many who attained much distinction in their life work. He had hoped to enter the ministry. Urgent financial necessity, and the need of assuming responsibilities left by the death of his father, forced him to give up his earnest desire to study theology, and he then began teaching, to obtain immediate income.
In September, 1836 , he opened in a small dwelling house, a new private school for boys, preparatory for college. With only a few pupils at first, and no assistance from any one, and owing only to his personality and scholarship, his school rapidly became large and famous, and when it closed at his death, May 19, 1885 , there were said to have been four thousand young men from all parts of this and some foreign countries under his care as pupils. During about half a century there were at Yale young men who had prepared for college under his care. Never seeking to lay up riches, giving away freely of what he had, he was ever ready to assist many young men who without means sought an education.

Birth	12 Aug 1809	Middlesex County, Connecticut
Marriage	29 Aug 1836	Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut - Mary Elizabeth Hubbard
Death	19 May 1885	New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

Spouse	Mary Elizabeth Hubbard (1816 - 1890)
Child	Dr Thomas Hubbard Russell (1851 - 1916)