Tsao Ka Chuck | | Cao Jiajue 曹家爵1 | Tsae Kia Cheou Ts’au Kia Tsich Ts’au Kia Tsioh Tsao Kia Tsioh Tsao Kuei Cheong
| | 3 | 77 | 1863 | Shunde, Guangdong | 12 (Lunar Calendar) | 18 April 18752 | Hartford, CT, CEM Headquarters | (1) North Amherst, MA; (2) CEM Headquarters, Hartford, CT3 | (1) Charles H. & Mary W. (Adams) Kellogg, North Amherst, MA; (2) 34 Sumner St., Hartford, CT.3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Probably the elder brother or cousin of Tsao Ka Hsiang (Cao Jiaxiang 曹家祥III, 67). They are said to have been natives of the same village, Hengyu Cun 横圩村, in Shunde District 顺德县 of Guangdong.4 | | | Tsao Ka Chuck was the first CEM student to die in the United States. At Yung Wing’s request, Reverend Joseph H. Twichell, Pastor of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, officiated at Tsao’s funeral, held 20 April 1875. ”Cao’s body was to have remained in Hartford unless sent for by his family in China, but this did not come to pass, and he was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery—the first Chinese burial in the history of Hartford.”5 | 1. Personal name written 嘉爵 in Xu (1978), p. 41, and in student list compiled by Tong Yuen Chan (Tang Yuanzhan 唐元湛 II, 53); written 家爵 in Shen Bao 申报 (6 August 1874), in student list compiled by Won Bing Chung (Wen Bingzhong 温秉忠 II, 36), and in Yung Shang Him (1939), p. 28; Yung Shang Him (10/1939), p. 252. 2. Robyn (1996), p. 186, n. 272, citing Hartford Daily Courant, 20 April 1875, 2:4.
3. Residences and host: Rhoads (2011), p. 52, Table 5.1 (North Amherst, MA; Charles & Mary Kellogg); Hartford Daily Courant, loc. cit. (CEM headquarters, Hartford, CT).
4. As noted in student list compiled by Tong Yuen Chan; Rhoads (2011), p. 57.
5. Robyn (1996), p. 49, citing Hartford Daily Times, 20 April 1875, 3:4. | |
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