Lee Kwai Pan | 1878, Member "Orientals" baseball team
| Li Guipan 李桂攀 | Lee Kai Pan Lee Kwai Pan1 Li Kuei-p’an2 L. K. Pan3 Kwai Pahn Lee, "Pon Lee"4 | Li Buyun 李步雲 Li Ban 李扳3 | 2 | 48 | 1860 | Xiangshan, Guangdong | 14 (Lunar Calendar) | 9 January 18985 | New York City (Yonkers), NY5
| (1) North Amherst and Gardner, MA (2) Windsor, CT2 (3) Norwich, CT | (1) Rev. William D. & Josephine H. (Barton) Herrick, North Amherst and Gardner, MA6 (2) John B. Woodforth, Windsor, CT7 (3) Patrick Burke, New London, CT8
| West Middle Public School, Hartford, CT. graduated April 1877; Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT, 1877-1881
| Member of the “Orientals“ baseball team. “Li Guipan, upon his graduation from the West Middle Public School in Hartford, was awarded First Prize in penmanship and received as a prize the Household Book of Poetry.”9 | After returning to the U.S. (1882 or 1883), he enrolled in Lehigh University in 1883 but was unable to graduate.10 | | | Assigned to study law in Tianjin but returned to U.S. (date uncertain) to finish his college education. | | Business ("Tea Business in NYC."11) | | Li Shiquan 李石泉 | | Married, on Sunday, 5 March 1893, Elizabeth Standish Jewett, the daughter of his landlord while he was attending Norwich Academy.4 | | No children.5 | | After his return to the U.S. Lee tried to continue his education at Lehigh University in 1883, but after only a year he was summoned to Washington to take up a position at the Chinese Legation where he served for four years. In 1893 he went into business in New York, forming a partnership ("Henry and Lee") with an American, Frank H. Henry, to import Chinese products.9
"…It was while he was a student that he became acquainted with Miss Jewett, who is a daughter of the late Dr. Charles Jewett [1807-1879] of Norwich Town, the well-known temperance lecturer. The young Chinaman, who was known as 'Pon Lee,' became quite a ball player and all-around athlete, and was very popular. He is a member of the Congregational church and an active Christian."4
| 1. Springfield Daily Republican, 26 July 1873, 3.
2. Leung (1988b), 403; 404. 3. Signature: “Very truly yours / L. K. Pan / Hong Sun / China”, with characters 李扳 (Li Ban), in one of two autograph books of Yung Kwai (Rong Kui 容揆 II, 34). Signature in second autograph book: “Yours truly / Lee Kwai Pan / Windsor / Conn Dec 2nd 1875”. Yung Kwai Papers, Archives and Manuscripts, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT.
4. The Anaconda Standard [Anaconda, Montana], 5 March 1893, 2:5: "Prominent or Peculiar". 5. Date and place of death: Rhoads (2011), p. 205; no children: probate records, Westchester County, NY (Edward J. M. Rhoads, email 19 Aug. 2008).
6. Rhoads (2011), p. 52, Table 5.1. 7. Leung (1988b), 404.
8. U.S. Census 1880; Robyn (1996), p. 186, n. 266: "Patrick Burke, Bean Hill, Norwich"; cf. Rhoads (2011), p.139, Table 9.2: "boarding with George H. Martin".
9. Robyn (1996), 41-42, citing Hartford Evening Post, 28 April 1877. 10. Rhoads (2011), p. 205. 11. LaFargue (1987), p. 174. | |
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