Chang Yau Kung | | Zhang Yougong 张有恭 | Cheong Yan Kong Chiang Yew Kung1 Yen Kung Cheong | | 2 | 51 | 1862 | Xiangshan, Guangdong | 12 (Lunar Calendar) | Died very young, soon after return to China.2 | Shanghai: drowned in Huangpu River.
| (1) Plantsville, CT; (2) Exeter, NH. | (1) Miss Mary Delight Twichell, Plantsville, CT3 (2) Laura A. (Graves) Colbuck, Exeter, NH4
| Natchaug High School, Willimantic, CT, ?-18795 Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, 1879-18815 | | | | | | | | | | | | Possibly a cousin of Chang Hon Yen (Zhang Kangren 张康仁 I, 10). See Rhoads (2011), p. 25. | | | In June 1881, Chang was removed from Phillips Exeter and assigned to participate in a special course of instruction in telegraphy held at the CEM headquarters in Hartford. The course was completed in July and Chang returned to China in August with the second group of returnees.6
| 1. Springfield Daily Republican, 26 July 1873, 3. 2. Yung Shang Him (1939), p. 25; Yung Shang Him (10/1939), p. 249.
3. Mary Delight (Twichell) Hall was the half-sister of Rev. Joseph H. Twichell; she married the Rev. Alfred H. Hall in 1875 and moved to Meriden, CT. It is not certain if Chang was transferred to another host family. Rhoads (2011), p. 72.
4. U.S. Census 1880.
5. Natchaug School and Phillips Exeter Academy: Rhoads (2011), pp. 97 and 100, Table 7.2.
6. Rhoads (2011), pp. 174; 175. | |
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