Tsai Cum Shang | | Cai Jinzhang 蔡锦章 | Tsai Gum Shang Tsoi Cum Ching Tsoy Cum Ching “Cabbage”
| 蔡雲松 | 1 | 9 | 1859 | Xiangshan, Guangdong Province | 14 (Lunar Calendar) | Before 1939 | Shanghai | 1) Washington, CT; 2) Norwich, CT2 | 1) Julia Leavitt Richards 1 ; 2) Dr. Charles Jewett of Norwich2; 3) George H. Martin of Norwich (1880 U.S. Census) | The Gunnery School, Washington, CT1; South School, Hartford3;
Wadsworth Street Public School 3; Norwich Free Academy, 1877-1880.2 | | | | | | Went into business; later joined the Shanghai-Nanking Railway | Business; Railway | Deputy Traffic Manager 车务副总管, Shanghai-Nanking Railway | | | | | | | Tsai was Vice-President of the Christian society organized by CEM students who had accepted the Christian faith (but not baptized or members of a church). It had a Latin name: "Societas Condita Causa Augendarum Rerum Chinensium Christiana," or "A Christian Society founded for the sake of advancing the interests of the Chinese." Using his alias, "Tong Kai-son", Tong Kwo On (Tang Guoan 唐国安 II, 49) wrote: "The Vice-President was Tsoy Kum-chong, who under the strong influence of his teacher, a childless widow, lived an exemplary Christian life. He is now employed on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway."4
| 1. Courtesy Alissa Krimsky, email of 2 March 2006.
2. Courtesy Edward J.M. Rhoads, email of 14 March 2006.
3. Robyn (1996), 153. 4. Tong Kai-son, "The Christian Experiences of the Students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the U.S.", in China's Young Men (The YMCA, China), 8:3 (1905), 26-28; 8:4 (1905), 25-28. (Kindly provided by Mr. Tang Shaoming 唐绍明, grand nephew of Tong Kwo On) | |
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