Ho Ting Liang | Circa 1873-74, Ct. Hist. Soc.? | He Tingliang 何廷梁 | | 何桂臣 | 1 | 18 | March 3, 1860 | Shunde, Guangdong Province | 12 (Western Calendar) | 1908 | Canton | 1) Northampton, MA 2) Andover, MA 3) Amherst, MA (1880 U.S. Census) | Martha Ely Matthews; Sarah J. Young (1880 U.S. Census) | 1) Northampton High School, MA; 2) Phillips Andover Academy, MA (1 yr) | Good at drawing & painting, of which he did a great deal | 1879-81 Amherst College, MA; Class of 1883 (non-graduating) | | | Beiyang Medical School in Tianjin | Naval Doctor1 | Government: Medicine/Navy | | | | | | 3 children, names unknown | | “Ho Ting-liang was one of the first detachment to come to Miss Matthews. He was very keen and was soon fitted for the high school in Northampton, where he graduated. He then took a year’s preparatory course in Phillips Andover academy, after which he entered Amherst college. President Seelye passed many complimentary remarks concerning his achievements while in college…He was pressed into service during the Japanese-Chinese war in 1894 as a surgeon on one of the Chinese gun-boats, where his health became much broken.”2 "Retired and died early in Canton"3 | 1. Shi (2000), 201. According to the Amherst College Biographical Record, Centennial Edition (1821-1921), Ho worked as a "surgeon on Chinese war vessel, 1886-."
2. Springfield Sunday Republican, March 30, 1902, p. 11.
3. Yung Shang Him (10/1939) , 246, Yung Shang Him (1939), 22.
4. An excerpt from an unknown publication giving somewhat different information in compact format about Ho should be noted here: "* Ho Ting Liang. s Sach Ho, b Kwang Tung Province Canton China Mar 3 1860. Phillips Acad Andover; Amh 1879-81; recalled by Chinese govt; stud med; served in war between China and France 1884-85; surg Chinese war vessel 1886; prac Canton after war; retired; clerical position govt telegraph and customs service Canton. d 1908. Married; 3 ch (2 d)." (Clipping found in "CHS Social Scrapbooks, Vol. 6, pages 106-107" kept at Connectical Historical Society Museum & Library, Hartford, CT.)
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