The name Russell is very connected to Yale and Skull & Bones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale
Noadiah Russell and Rev. Samuel Russell founding members of Yale. Began as a religious training school (with Puritan links) and a grant from East India Company representative Elihu Yale.
(Yale school has an interesting history)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones
Skull and Bones was founded in 1832 after a dispute among Yale debating societies Linonia, Brothers in Unity, and the Calliopean Society over that season's Phi Beta Kappa awards. William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft co-founded "the Order of the Scull [sic] and Bones."[2][3] The first senior members included Russell, Taft, and twelve other members.[4]
The society's assets are managed by the society's alumni organization, the Russell Trust Association, incorporated in 1856 and named after the Bones co-founder.[2] The association was founded by Russell and Daniel Coit Gilman, a Skull and Bones member.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Trust_Association
The Russell Trust Association is the business name for the New Haven, Connecticut based Skull and Bones society, incorporated in 1856
The business and political network of the Skull and Bones was detailed by Hoover Institution scholar Antony C. Sutton in the exposé, America's Secret Establishment. Social organizations connected to the Russell Trust network include Deer Island Club, which also operates as a corporation.