Wong Yew Chong  
| 1. LaFargue Collection 2. 1919 CEM Reunion, LaFargue Collection | Huang Yaochang 黄耀昌 | Cheung Yen Wong Cheung Yew Wong Wong Chung Wong Yew Cheong Wong Yew Cheung Wong Yew Chiang Wong Yew Tscheong Wong Yu Chung Y.C. Wong "Dandy Wong"1 | 黄文南 | 4 | 94 | 1863 (majority of sources); or 18602 | Xiangshan, Guangdong Province | 13 (Lunar Calendar if born 1863); 16 (Lunar Calendar if born 1860). Between 12-15 years old, depending on actual date of birth2 | | Shanghai | (1) Springfield, MA (2) 11 Imlay St., Hartford, CT | (1) Eugene Clarence Gardner, Springfield, MA (2) William B. & Virginia T. Smith, Hartford, CT | Hooker Grammar School Springfield High School; Hartford Public High School | | | | | 1881-84 Worked at the first cotton mill in Shanghai. | 1884 Chief Chinese Assistant, Shipping Office of Butterfield and Swire Co., Shanghai; 1884-96 Deputy Manager of Hong Kong Branch; 1896-1908 Manager of the Branch at Ichang 宜昌, Hubei 湖北; 1909 Director of China Merchants Steam Navigation Co., Shanghai 上海招商轮船总局; 1909-11 Associate Director, Hankow Office, Peking-Hankow Railway 京汉铁路; 1911-14 Member, Ministry of Communications 交通部; 1914-16 Assistant Managing Director, Peking-Hankow Railway in Peking. | Business; Railways | Qing rank: Daotai 道台 | | | Married in 1882, name not known.
| | 4 sons, 6 daughters, names not known. | | | 1. Letter signed "Johnnie Liang", and dated Oct. 8, 1935, 114 Whakee Avenue Bubbling Well Rd, Shanghai, from Yung Shang Him (Rong Shangqian 容尚谦 I, 6) to Woo Yang Tsang (Wu Yangzeng 吴仰曾 I, 3), [p. 3]: 4 typed sheets, with autograph signature, in LaFargue (Pullman). 2. Most early Chinese sources give 1863 (癸亥 Gui Hai) as Wong's birth year; the biographical entry for "Wong, Yew-cheong (Y.C. Wong)" in the bilingual Who's Who of American Returned Students, published in 1917, gives his birth year as 1860 and his current age as "57 岁." See Who's Who (1917; 1978), p. 139-40. This source provides most of the data in this profile. | |
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