Tong Chi Yao 
| Circa 1876, LaFargue Collection | Tang Zhiyao 唐致尧 | Tong Chi Yew1 Tong Shi Yew
| | 3 | 73 | 1862 | Xiangshan (Zhongshan), Guangdong | 13 (Lunar Calendar) | | Shanghai | (1) Greenfield, MA (2) Hartford, CT (3) Westfield, MA2 | (1) Lizzie [Elizabeth] Clark, Greenfield, MA (2) Helen E. Blakeslee, Hartford, CT (3) William H. & Josephine S. Foote, Westfield, MA2 | | | | | | | Went into business; afterwards joined the Peking-Mukden (Beijing-Shenyang) Railway and the Tianjin Tax Bureau. | Railways; Business; Government | | | | | Related to other CEM students of surname Tong, particularly Tong Yuen Chan (Tang Yuanzhan 唐元湛 II, 53) and Tong Shao Yi (Tang Shaoyi 唐绍仪 III, 61), all three said to be natives of the same place, Tang Jia 唐家 in Xiangshan Xian 香山县 (modern Zhongshan Xian 中山县), Guangdong ⼴东; also related to Tong Kwo On (Tang Guoan 唐国安 II, 49), Tong Wing Ho (Tang Ronghao 唐荣浩 IV, 105), and Tong Wing Chun (Tang Rongjun 唐荣俊 IV, 106). | | | | 1. Signature: “Tong Chi Yew / Canton / China,” in autograph book (ca. 1875) of Yung Kwai (Rong Kui 容揆 II, 34) in Archives and Manuscripts, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT.
2. Residences and American hosts: Rhoads (2011), p. 53, Table 5.1 (Greenfield, MA; Elizabeth Clark); Robyn (1996), p. 146 (Hartford, CT; Helen E. Blakeslee); U.S. Census 1880, Rhoads (2011), p. 141, Table 9.2 (Westfield, MA; William H. Foote). | |
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