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Yang Chan Ling

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Pinyin & Chinese characters Yang Changling 杨昌龄
Variant Spellings & Other Names Yang Chang Ling1
Other Chinese Name(s) Yang Shounan 杨寿南
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LaFargue No. 87
Date of Birth 1863
Place of Birth Shunde, Guangdong
Age at Departure for US

 

 12 (Lunar Calendar)
Date of Death  
Place of Death Tianjin
Place(s) of Residence in US

 

 (1) Winchester, CT
(2) Greenfield, MA
(3) Westfield, MA
American Host Family/ies (1) James Coles, Winchester, CT
(2) Elizabeth (Lizzie) Clark, Greenfield, MA
(3) William H. & Josephine S. Foote, Westfield, MA2

 
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Notable Activities/Awards in School  
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Notable Activities/Awards in College  
Degree/Diploma Obtained (date)  
First Assignment in China Assigned to Dagu 大沽 Forts
Later Positions Military Instructor, Nanjing Military School;

Railway service with Peking-Mukden (Beijing-Shenyang) Railway;

Chief Freight Manager and then Deputy Director of the Ping-Nei Line 平馁路;3

Traffic Manager and Co-Director of Peking-Kalgan (Beijing-Zhangjiakou) Railway
Employment Sector(s) Military; Railways
Final Rank, if in Gov't Service  
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Mother's Name  
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Descendants Great-granddaughter You Si Han 游思涵
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Notes and Sources 1. Signature: “Yours truly / Yang Chang Ling / Westfield / Mass” 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 hosts: Rhoads (2011), p. 53, Table 5.1 (Winchester, CT, James Coles); Robyn (1996), p. 146 (Greenfield, MA, Elizabeth Clark); U.S. Census 1880, Rhoads (2011), p. 141, Table 9.2 (Westfield, MA, William H. Foote).

3. Shi (2000), p. 242.