William Fletcher Russell

William Fletcher Russell 1890-1956, American educator, b. Delhi, N.Y., grad. Cornell Univ., 1910, Ph.D. Columbia, 1914; son of James Earl Russell. He was dean (1917-23) of the College of Education, State Univ. of Iowa, and professor of education (1923-54) and associate director of the International Institute (1923-27) at Teachers College, Columbia. In 1927 he succeeded his father as dean of Teachers College, and he was later appointed (1949) president of the school. He retired in 1954. Russell wrote Economy in Secondary Education (1916), Education in the United States (1917), and The Meaning of Democracy (with T. H. Briggs, 1941) and edited The Rise of a University (Vol. I, 1937).

Fletcher, John William (1729–85), Vicar of Madeley in Shropshire. A Swiss by birth and education, he came to England in 1750. Probably in 1753 he joined the Methodist movement (then still within the C of E). He was ordained in 1757 and in 1760 accepted the living of Madeley. Although he resisted J. Wesley's desire to designate him as his successor in the leadership of the Methodists, his personal sanctity won him a strong personal influence in the movement.