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# Who's Who in the Far East/ITO, Baron Shunkichi

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​ITO, Baron Shunkichi (TOKYO), ex-Vice-Admiral; b. Jan., 1840, at Maizuru. Entered Navy, 1869; Lieut.-Commander, 1871; Rear-Admiral, 1882; Vice-Admiral, 1889; created Baron, 1895; Vice-Minister of Navy from 1889 to 1899; created a peer in recognition of service in Chino-Japanese War; Member of House of Peers since 1899. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/ITO, Marquis Hirobumi

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​ ITO, Marquis Hirobumi (SEOUL), Japanese Resident General of Corea; b. Sept. 2, 1841. Escaped to England with Count Inouye in days of last Shogun, and took part on Imperial side during war which led to Restoration; appointed Governor of Hyogo at end of war; sent to Europe, 1871, with special embassy for revision of treaties; is responsible for existing Japanese banking regulations; was Minister of Works, 1878, after proclamation of 1881, announcing inauguration of representative government; 10 years later was despatched to Europe and America to gather material to frame Constitution for Japan; was founder of present system of Government in Japan; despatched to China and concluded Tientsin Treaty with late Li Hung Chang, 1885; Prime Ministn of Japan, 1886; upon inauguration of Constitutional Government was President of House of Peers; concluded Treaty of Shimonoseki with late Li Hung Chang; established present system of peerage in Japan; appointed President of Privy Council; visited England with Prince Arisugawa to attend late Queen's Diamond Jubilee; has been Prime Minister on five occasions, and has filled almost every portfolio of State; cr. Marquis, 1895; appointed Resident General of Corea, 1906; made Privy Councillor of Carea, Feb., 1906. Decorations: The Grand Cordon of Japan, etc. Address: Residency General, Seoul Corea.
# Who's Who in the Far East/ISHUIN, Vice-Admiral Goro

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​ ISHUIN, Vice-Admiral Goro (TOKYO), Vice Chief of the Naval Staff; b., ​Satsuma, Sept., 1852. Educ.: England and Germany. Entered Navy, 1871; member of Naval Staff with rank of Captain during Chine-Japanese War; promoted Vice-Admiral, 1903; for several years was attached to Legation at London; while there invented a new fuse, the Ishuin fuse, which was adopted by Imperial fleet. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/ISNARD, Louis Antoine

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​ ISNARD, Louis Antoine (SAIGON), Conseiller, Cour d'Appel; b. Feb. 1, 1852. Entree I'Admiuistration de la Justice, Jan. 1, 1881. Address: Saigon, Cochin-China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/ITAGAKI, Count Taisuke

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​ ITAGAKI, Count Taisuke (TOKYO), Founder of Liberal Party in Japanese politics; b. April 17, 1837, at Tosa. Commanded a Division of Imperial Army during war preceding Restoration; appointed Cabinet Minister on inauguration of Imperial Government; resigned, 1878; founded Liberal Party, 1881; was stabbed, by young reactionary, 1S81; travelled through Europe and America, 1882; created Count, 1887; since 1900 has abandoned politics. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHU TSU-MOU

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​ CHU TSU-MOU (CANTON), Chinese Official Service. Hanlin compiler; Hanlin Expsitor, April, 1899; Sub-Chancellor, Grand Secretariat, Aug., 1901; junior Vice-President, Board of Ceremonies, Feb., 1902; ​Literary Chancellor, Canton province, 1904; resigned July, 1905.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHULALONGKORN I.

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​ CHULALONGKORN I. (see: SIAM, KING OF).
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHUN-LIANG, General

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​ CHUN-LIANG, General (PEKING), native of Manchuria; metropolitan graduate 1883. Appointed Chief Supervisor of Instruction, Dec., 1896; Sub-Chancellor, Grand Secretariat, Jan., 1896; Brigade-General in Charge of Western Mausolea, Nov., 1899; Imperial Resident, Hsi-Ning, 1903; ordered to return to Peking, Sept., 1904.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHUNG-SHAN

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​ CHUNG-SHAN (FOOCHOW), Governor; Imperial Clansman; Acting Governor-General. Deputy Lieut.-General, Chin-chou, March, 1885; Tartar-General, Nanking, March, 1899; Military Governor, Mukden, Nov., 1900; Tartar-General, Nanking, April, 1901; Tartar-General, Foochow, April, 1902; acting Governor-General, Min-Che (Fukien and Chekiang) provinces, April, 1903. Address: Foochow, Fukien province.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHU PAO-K'UEI

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​ CHU PAO-K'UEI (PEKING), Acting 2nd Secretary Waiwupu; Principal Secretary and Adviser to Foreign Mission, 1905; assistant Governor, Shantung, 1905; acting 2nd Sec., Waiwupu, Oct., 1905.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHZN HAI-PENG, Ganeral

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​ CHEN HAI-PENG, General (Sui-CHING), native of Hunan. Brigadier General at Sui-ching, province of Hunan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHRISTIANI, Th.

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​ CHRISTIANI, Th. (HONGKONG), Exchange Broker. Club: Germania; Hongkong. Address: Club, Hongkong.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHUNG-LING, General

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​ CHUNG-LING, General (ML-KDEN), native of Manchunia; metropolitan graduate, 1877. Appointed Chief Supervisor of Instruction, Nov., 1894; Sub-Chancellor Grand Secretariat Secretariat, May, 1895; Vice-President, Board of Works, Mukden, Aug., 1896; Lieut.-General, Hanchun Yellow Banner Corps, July, 1905.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHUNG MUN-YEW

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​ CHUNG MUN-YEW (SHANGHAI), Head of Board of Chinese Commissioners of the Shanghai-Nanking railway. Educ.: Yale University, U.S.A., having proceeded with others in 1872 and remaining until 1875. Was Attache, then Secretary, of Chinese Legation in Washington; subsequently Consul-General Havana, Cuba, and Manila, the latter post being vacated in 1905; appointed Commissioner of Peiyang Bureau of Foreign Affairs, and in Jan., 1906, proceeded to Shanghai as Head of the Board controlling the Shanghai-Nanking railway.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CHUNG-HSUN, Lieut.-General

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​ CHUNG-HSUN, Lieut.-General (PEKING), native of Manchuria; metropolitan graduate, 1865. Appointed Chief Supervisor of Instruction, 1878; Commissioner of Transmission, 1878; Vice-President, Censorate, 1879; degraded, Jan., 1883; Commandant of Forces, So-lun, March, 1887; vacated post, July, 1894; Director Court of State Ceremonial, Oct., 1895; Sub-Chancellor, Grand Secretariat, March, 1898; appointed Assistant Governor, Kobdo, Oct., 1900, but did not proceed; Deputy Lieut.-General, Bordered Yellow Banner Corps, Oct., 1900; senior Vice-President, Board of Punishments, Nov., 1900; Deputy Lieut.-General, Bordered White Banner Corps, Summer 1901; Capt.-General, Bordered Red Hanchun Banner Corps, Feb., 1906.
# Woman of the Century/Julia Carter Aldrich

​ALDRICH, Mrs. Julia Carter, author, born in Liverpool, Ohio, 28th January, 1834. She was JULIA CARTER ALDRICH. the fifth in a family of seven children. Her maiden name was Carter. Her paternal ancestors were New ​Englanders of English stock. Her mother's parents, born and reared in Richmond, Va., were of Scotch and German descent. Miss Carter began to write when quite young, making a successful attempt at the age of fourteen years. Her school-days were marked by thorough and rapid proficiency. At the age of seventeen years she began to teach in a large village school, following that vocation for four years. During all the busy period of study and teaching, frequent contributions from her pen, both of verse and prose, found place in various periodicals and won for her much encouragement from high sources. In October, 1854, she was married to Joseph Aldrich, of New York. During the earlier years of her married life literary work was somewhat neglected, but out of the joy of her own home sprang a desire to carry sunshine and happiness to others. Believing that many fountains of evil had their origin in bad home management, for several years she did much earnest work for the home circle in many periodicals, and under various pen-names, "Petresia Peters" being the best known. Reformatory measures have always received her aid, and her articles written in the interests of humanity would make volumes. Poetry has been to Mrs. Aldrich its own reward, but she has neglected to make any collection of her poems. She is the mother of three sons. Her husband died in 1889, at their country place, "Maple Grove Home," near Wauseon, Ohio.
# Woman of the Century/Julia Evelyn Ditto Young

​YOUNG, Mrs. Julia Evelyn Ditto, poet and novelist, born in Buffalo, N. Y., 4th December, 1857. Her father, the late John A. Ditto, was a noted civil engineer, who twice served as city ​engineer of Buffalo. Her mother, Mrs. Margaret McKenna Ditto, was a woman of both literary and artistic talents, who finally chose art and became a successful painter in oils. The family on both sides is a talented one. Julia early showed that she had inherited literary talent of a high order. She was educated in the grammar and normal schools of Buffalo. After completing a thorough educational course, she became the wife of Robert D. Young, 30th December, 1876. Mr. Young is now cashier of the Erie County Savings Bank. Two sons were born to them. The older, born in 1877, died in 1882. The younger is living. JULIA EVELYN DITTO YOUNG. Mrs. Young, when a mere child, began to write stories and verses. As soon as she had learned to write, she utilized her accomplishment to commit to paper a gloomy poem, "The Earl's Bride." In 1871 she published a story in the Buffalo "Evening Post," which opened in this alarming style: "Shriek upon shriek rent the air, mingled with yells." She next published, in the Buffalo "Express," an essay on Fort Erie, which aroused protest on account of its inaccuracies. She then became a contributor to "Peterson's Magazine" and to the Frank Leslie periodicals. Recently she has written many short stories for a newspaper syndicate. These stories show many remarkable and artistic qualities in the author. She has written much poetry also, and her poems, like her stories, show her to be the possessor of vivid imagination and a master of diction. She has translated standard poems from the French and German into English. In November, 1889, she published a novel. "Adrift: A Story of Niagara," a finished work, the plot of which is laid in the neighborhood of Niagara Falls. The book was successful. She is now engaged on more important works. Her home is on Bouck Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y., and is a center of simple and cordial hospitality and of refinement and culture. In her literary work she has the encouragement of her husband, who is a man of intelligence. Her married life is an ideally happy one.
# Woman of the Century/Julia E. Houston West

​WEST, Mrs. Julia E. Houston, soprano singer, born in Ashhumham, Mass., 22nd June, 1832. She is descended from the Tread wells, of Portsmouth, and other well-known families. Taste and talent for music were her inheritance from her father, who was a good general musician and 'cello player, and her mother, who was for several years the chief singer in Dr. Duckinersher's church, in Portsmouth. At an early age her accurate ear and fine voice began to attract notice. She sang in public at fourteen, and at eighteen took the leading part when "The Song of the Bell" was given in Fitchburg. Her singing attracted so much notice that she at once received an invitation from the organists, Bricker and Bancroft, to enter the quartet which they were directing in Boston. She sang for some years in Worcester, and in 1856 she accepted a place in Boston, in Dr. E. E. Hale's church. There she remained three years, when she accepted a call to the Old South Church. In 1867 she returned to Dr. Hale's church, where she remained until her withdrawal from church work, in 1881. The record of oratorio music in the principal cities of the country bears her name as that of one of its greatest exponents. During the war she was often heard in patriotic assemblies, and she sang in the "Ode to Saint Cecilia" at the dedication of the great organ in Music Hall, in the second Jubilee in ​Boston, in the great celebration in that city of the Emancipation Proclamation, and lately in the festivities on the two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of Haverhill, Mass. She has sung in oratorio in New York. Chicago, Philadelphia and JULIA E. HOUSTON WEST. Washington. She has appeared with Parepa, Formes. Adelaide Phillips, Nilsson, Guerrabella, Rudersdorf and many others. She visited Europe, where she studied with Randegger and Madame Dolby. She sang in a reception in Rev. Newman Hall's church, in London. Her voice is an extended mezzo-soprano of even quality. She was married in 1870 to James F. West, a well-known business man of Haverhill, Mass., where she now resides.
# Woman of the Century/Julia McNair Wright

​WRIGHT, Mrs. Julia McNair, author, born in Oswego, N. Y., 1st May, 1840. She is the daughter of John McNair, a well-known civil engineer of Scotch descent. She was carefully educated in private schools and seminaries. In 1859 she became the wife of Dr. William James Wright, the mathematician. JULIA MCNAIR WRIGHT. She began her literary career at sixteen by the publication of short stories. Her published works include "Almost a Nun " (1867); "Priest and Nun" (1869); "Jug-or-Not" (1870); "Saints and Sinners" (1873); "The Early Church in Britain" (1874); "Bricks from Babel," a manual of ethnography (1876); "The Complete Home" (1879); "A Wife Hard Won," a novel (1882), and "The Nature Readers," four volumes (1887-91). Her works have been very popular. Most of her stories have been republished in Europe, in various languages, and several of them have appeared in Arabia. Mrs. Wright has never had a book that was a financial failure; all have done well. "The Complete Home" sold over one-hundred-thousand copies, and others have reached ten, twenty, thirty and fifty thousand. Since the organization of the National Temperance Society, she has been one of its most earnest workers and most popular authors. She has two children, both married. Her son is a distinguished young business man; her daughter. Mrs. J. Wright Whitcomb, a member of the Kansas bar, is a promising young author.
# Woman of the Century/Julia Dent Grant

​GRANT, Mrs. Julia Dent, wife of General Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States, born in St. Louis, Mo., 26th January, 1826. She is a daughter of Frederick and Ellen Wrenshall Dent. Her grandfather, Capt. George Dent, led the forlorn hope in Fort Montgomery, when it was stormed by Mad Anthony Wayne. On her mother's side she is descendeu from John Wrenshall, an English Puritan who settled in Philadelphia, Pa. She began to attend Miss Moreau's boarding-school in 1836, and she remained in that school until 1844 Returning home in that year, she met Lieutenant U. S. Grant, then stationed in Jefferson Barracks, in St. Louis. She became his wife 22nd August, 1848. They lived in Detroit, Mich., until 1852. and then went to Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., where Captain Grant was stationed. When Captain Grant was ordered to California, Mrs. Grant returned to St. Louis, her health not being strong enough to endure so great a change of climate. During the Civil War she remained much of the time near her husband. She was with him in City Point in the winter of 1864 and 1865, and she accompanied him to Washington when he returned with his victorious army. She for eight years filled the arduous position of mistress of the White House in a most charming manner. Her regime was marked by dignity, simplicity and home-like ways that endeared her to all who came into contact with her. She accompanied her ​husband around the earth. After General Grant's death, Congress voted her a pension of $5,000 a year, tier family consists of three children, Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, jr., and Mrs. JULIA DENT GRANT. Nellie Sartoris. She now lives in New York City, occupied much of the time with literary labors.
# Woman of the Century/Julia Gardiner Tyler

​TYLER, Mrs. Julia Gardiner, wife of John Tyler, tenth President of the United States, born on Gardiner's Island, near Easthampton, N. Y., in 1820. She was the oldest daughter of David Gardiner, a man of wealth. She was educated by private teachers at home until she was sixteen years old, when she was sent to Chegary Institute, in New York City, where she was graduated. After leaving school, she traveled with her father in Europe. Returning to the United States, she visited Washington, D. C, in 1844. She and her father went with President Tyler on a steamboat excursion to Alexandria, and on the return trip the gun "Peacemaker" exploded while being fired, and Mr. Gardiner and several others were killed, and many others were injured. The body of Mr. Gardiner was taken to the White House, and President Tyler, then a widower, was thrown in the company of the grief-stricken daughter. They became engaged, and on 26th June, 1844, they were married in New York City. For the remaining eight months of President Tyler's term of office she presided in the White House with grace, dignity and success. Leaving Washington, they retired to Mr. Tyler's home, "Sherwood Forest," in Virginia. They remained there until Mr. Tyler died, 17th January, 1862, in Richmond. Since the Civil War she has lived in her mother's home on Castleton Hill, Staten Island. N.Y. She has several children. She is a convert to Roman Catholicism and is active in the charities of that church.
# Woman of the Century/Julia Marlowe

​JULIA MARLOWE. MARLOWE, Miss Julia, actor, born in Carlisle, Eng., in 1865. Her father's name was Brough. and she was christened Fannie. As there was a well-known English actor named Fannie Brough. she decided, when she went on the stage, to take the name Julia Marlowe. In 1872 her family came to the United States and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her education was thoroughly American, received in the public schools of America, and she wishes to be known and classed as an American actor. ​In 1874, when Julia was nine years old, she played as Sir Joseph Porter in "Pinafore" with her younger sister, Alice. In 1879 she went on a tour in a company with Miss Dowe, and during that tour saw much of Shakespearean characters. One day the Romeo page of the company was sick, and the youthful Julia, after proving that she knew every line of Romeo and Juliet," was permitted to play the page's part. She did it in such a way as to suggest great possibilities, and for the next four years she studied in retirement with Miss Dowe. She studied school branches and elocution, with all the stage "business," and soon was ready to begin regular work before the public. She played in New England towns with great success, and on 20th October, 1887, she made her debut in New York City as Parthenia in a matinee performance of "Ingomar." She won a triumph at once. All the critics were favorable. Soon afterward she appeared as Viola in "Twelfth Night." and her success led her to enter the ranks as a star. She made a tour, appearing in "Ingomar," "Romeo and Juliet," "Twelfth Night." "As You Like It." "The Lady of Lyons," " Pygmalion and Galatea" and "The Hunchback." While her first tour was not wholly successful financially, it introduced her to the public and paved the way for her brilliant triumphs of the past four years. She has steadily worked her way to the front rank, and to-day she is considered one of the leading actors. In 1890 overwork brought on a serious illness in Philadelphia. Pa., and she was long ill in the home of Col. Alexander K. McClure, of the Philadelphia "Times." Since her recovery she has continued her successes in the principal cities of the country. She is a woman of slight form, with a beautiful and expressive face, and in her roles she appears true to life without visible effort. Her art is of that high, sure and true sort which hides itself and makes the portrayal natural.
# Woman of the Century/Julia Knowlton Dyer

​DYER, Mrs. Julia Knowlton, philanthropist, born in Deerfield, N. H., in 1829. Her father JULIA KNOWLTON DYER. was Joseph Knowlton, and her mother Susan Dearborn. Upon Bunker Hill Monument are inscribed the names of her mother s grandfather, Nathaniel Dearborn, and of her own grandfather, Thomas Knowlton. Julia Knowlton was one of six children. Her father served in the war of 1812, and his namesake, her brother, Joseph H. Knowlton, was a member of the secret expedition against Fort Beaufort, in the Civil War. After graduation in her eighteenth year. Miss Knowlton taught a year in the high school in Manchester, N. H., where she was a successful instructor in French and English literature and higher mathematics. She became the wife, in her twenty-first year, of Micah Dyer, jr., now a lawyer of Boston. Three children were born to them, two sons and a daughter, the latter dying in infancy. The two sons still live. Dr. William K. Dyer, of Boston, and Walter Dyer. Mrs. Dyer is connected prominently with twenty-four associations, only one of which, the Castilian Club, is purely literary. She is president of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts, president and founder of the Charity Club, a member of the executive boards of the Home for Intemperate Women, the Helping Hand Association, and president of the local branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. For twenty-six years she has been a manager for the Home for Female Prisoners in Dedham, Mass., and is a life member of the Bostonian Society. The association appoints a board of twenty-four women, two of whom visit the Soldiers's Home each month to look after the needs of the inmates. She is a member of the Methodist Church, but she attends regularly the services of her husband's choice, in the Church of the Unity, Boston, without comment, but without ​affecting her own faith in the slightest. Mrs. Dyer is so engaged in philanthropic work that she hardly thinks of herself as being a leader.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JACKSON, Robert D.

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​ JACKSON, Robert D. (KAULA LUMPUR), C.E.; Assistant Engineer; b. April 26, 1878. Public Works Department of New South Wales, 1896-98; do., Victoria, 1900-2; District Surveyor, Negri Sembilan, 1902; assistant Engineer, P.W.D., Selangor, 1904. Address: Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federated Malay States.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JAMIESON, James William

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​ JAMIESON, James William (PEKING), F.R.G.S.; Commercial Attache, British Legation; b. 1867. Was appointed Student Interpreter in China, Feb. 16, 1886; acting Vice-Cousul at Shanghai, 1895; at Pagoda Island, 1895 to 1896; at Canton, 1896 to 1897; promoted 1st class Assistant, Sept. 27, 1897; acting Consul at Wuchow, 1897; at Sumao, 1898; attached as Chinese Adviser to Burma-China Frontier Delimitation ​Commission, 1898-1899; acting Consul, Teng-Yueh, 1899; Commercial Attache to Legation in China and Consul in Consular Service in China, Oct. 3, 1899; acting Consul-General at Shanghai from March 20 to April 25, 1903; seconded for service under Colonial Office as Superintendent of Chinese labour iu the Transvaal, 1905. Club: Thatched House. Address: H.B.M. Legation, Peking, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JAPAN (NORTH), Bishop of

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​ JAPAN (NORTH), Bishop of (see: FYSON, RT. REV. PHILIP KEMBALL).
# Who's Who in the Far East/JACKSON, James Edward

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​ JACKSON, James Edward (TAIPIKG), ​A.M.I.C.E.; Executive Engineer; b. April 6, 1866. Assistant Engineer, P.W.D., Selangor, 1900; District Engineer, Kuala Lumpur, 1901; Executive Engineer, 2nd grade, 1904. Address: Taiping, Perak, Federated Malay States.
# Who's Who in the Far East/JAMES, Benjamin

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​ JAMES, Benjamin (HONGKONG), Head Master, Government School, Kowloon; b. 1874. Educ.: Llandovery College, and Merton College, Oxford. Assistant master, St. Leonard's School, 1896; second master, Horsmonden School, 1897; assistant master, Queen's College, Hongkong, 1898; second master, King's College, Bangkok, 1899; appointed first Head-master of the new Government Schools, Kowloon, Feb., 1901. dubs: Hongkong; United Services; Recreation, Kowloon. Address Government School, Kowloon, Hongkong.