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>Such famous names as Forbes, Perkins and Hathaway appear in the records of the British East India Company. These genuine American "bluebloods" created Russell and Company, whose main trade was in opium, but also ran other shipping enterprises from China to South America and all points in between. As a reward for their services to the British Crown and the BEIC, the crown granted them a monopoly in the slave trade in 1833.

>Warren Delano Jr., the grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States), in the 1860s, having first joined in 1833 and served as the Chief of Operations of Russell & Company in Canton.

John Murray Forbes (1813–1898), brother of R B. Forbes and the great-granduncle of 2004 presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry.