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Woo Huan Yung

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1919 CEM Reunion, LaFargue Collection

Pinyin & Chinese characters Wu Huanrong  吳煥荣
Variant Spellings & Other Names Woo Hwon Yung
Other Chinese Names 吴维青
Detachment 4
LaFargue No. 95
Date of Birth 1863
Place of Birth Wujian County, Jiangsu Province
Age at Departure for U.S. 13 (Lunar Calendar)
Date of Death  
Place of Death Shanghai
Place(s) of residence in U.S. New Haven, CT

American Host Family/ies Rev. Stephen Hubbell
School(s), with dates Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, CT

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First Assignment in China Telegraph Service
Later Positions

1887/8 Clerk in charge, Imperial Telegraph Administration 中国电报局, Tianjin1

Built first telegraph lines in Jiangxi 江西;

Head of Jiangxi Province Telegraph Service;

Worked for Peking-Mukden Railway;

Later connected with Head Office of the Han Ya Ping Iron Works, Shanghai.

Employment sector(s) Telegraph service; Railways

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Notes and Sources 1.  Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan...for 1888, Tientsin section. Info provided by Peter Crush of Hong Kong.