CEM Connections - Chun Kee Young

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Chun Kee Young
LEFT TO RIGHT: 1. At high school. 2. Member, CEM "Orientals" baseball team, 1878.
Pinyin & Chinese characters	Chen Juyong 陈钜镛; 陈巨溶 (in some sources)
Variant Spellings & Other Names	Chin Kee Yung Chin Ku Yung Chun Kee Yung Kee Yung Chun Ku Yung Chin Chen Jurong (Romanized for 陈钜溶)
Other Chinese Names
Detachment	1
LaFargue No.	19
Date of Birth	1860
Place of Birth	Xinhui, Guangdong Province
Age at Departure for U.S.	13 (Lunar Calendar)
Date of Death
Place of Death	Probably Fuzhou
Place(s) of residence in U.S.	Hartford, CT; New Haven, CT (1880 U.S. Census)
American Host Family/ies	Miss Charlotte Goldthwaite; Henry A. Street, New Haven (1880 U.S. Census)
School(s), with dates	West Middle Public High School, Hartford, CT 1874-76; Hartford Public High School, CT 1876-79
Notable activities/ awards in school	1876 took 1st prize in spelling at West Middle Public HS¹ Member of The Orientals, the CEM baseball team
College/University, with dates	Yale Sheffield Scientific School 1879-80²
Notable activities/ awards in College	1879 Member of Freshman Year Alpha Chi fraternity [The Yale Banner, v. 36 (1879), p. 69]; 1881 Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Prize for German [The Yale Banner, v. 37 (1880-81), p. 56]
Degree/Diploma Obtained, with date
First Assignment in China	Assigned to Fuzhou Naval School
Later Positions	After graduation, served on board training ship
Employment sector(s)	Navy
Final rank, if in gov't service
Father's name	Chen Yixing 陈以兴
Mother's name
Wife/wives
Family relations w/ other CEM students
Children's Names
Descendants
Other	Died early, of blood poisoning from injury during exercises on his training ship after graduation. “He was the best combination of a scholar and athlete among C.E.M. boys.”³
Notes and Sources	1. Rhoads (2011) p.105. 2. Chen skipped senior year at HPHS and went straight to Yale Sheffield Scientific School: Rhoads (2011) pp. 116 & 118. 3. Yung Shang Him (10/1939), 246; Yung Shang Him (1939), 22.