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# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang Ching-ch'i

Mr. Wang King-ky
王景岐字石蓀
(Wang Ching-ch'i)
Mr. Wang King-ky was born at Ming-hou Hsien, Fukien province, in 1882. He entered Tze Chiang School at Wuchang in 1896 for the study of French. In 1900 he enrolled with the Little Academy in France. Afterwards he joined the School of Political Science in Paris, specializing in diplomacy, where he graduated with high honors. Subsequently he went to England and attended Oxford and Edinburgh Universities. In 1908 he was appointed an attache to the Chinese Legation in Paris. In February of 1913 Mr. Wang was transferred to Peking and became an attache to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In March 1913 he was appointed by the Cabinet concurrently as reporter of the Commission on the Study of Constitutions. In September he was appointed by the Ministry of Foreign ​Affairs to be Chinese representative on the Claims Commission. In October he was promoted to the rank of senior clerk in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In April 1914 he became a member of the commission on Chinese and foreign legation and concurrently acted as associate secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In August he became first secretary to the Outer Mongolian Conference. In June 1915 Mr. Wang returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs upon the completion of the functions as first secretary to the conference, and in September. was appointed a member of the Commission on the Preparations for the European Peace Conference. In December he was jointly appointed by the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Foreign Affairs to be a member of the Commission on the study of Judicial Questions. In January 1916 he became chief of the private law section, Department of Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In June 1916 he received an additional post as examination of the Diplomatic Service Commission. In September 1916 he was engaged by the Peking Governnent University as professor of the History of Chinese Commercial Relations and Treaties and of the International Law. In October 1916 he became concurrently chief of the treaties section of the Foreign Office. In August 1917 Mr. Wang was appointed an Associate Councillor and in June 1918 an Acting Councillor, of the Foreign Office. At the end of 1918 Mr. Wang was sent to Paris as councillor of the Chinese Delegation. In January 1920 Mr. Wang returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs becoming an associate councillor, and was also given the Third Class Wenfu. In September 1920 he became an Acting Councillor of the Foreign Office. In October 1920 he was made a member of the Peace Treaty Discussion Commission. In February 1921 he was awarded the Second Class Chiaho and also appointed substantial Councillor of the Foreign Office. In August 1921 he was appointed Chinese Minister to Belgium and was at the same time given the Second Class Tashou Chiaho Decoration. Mr. Wang left China in September 1921 and is still in Belgium. In October 1922 he was awarded the Third Class Paokuang Chiaho.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang En-p'u

Mr. Wong Soong-dong
王恩溥字松堂
(Wang En-p'u)
Mr. Wong Soong-dong was born at Ningpo, Chekiang province, in 1854. He came to Shanghai at an early age and received his education in that port. In 1871 he joined the staff at the American Consulate, Shanghai, as shroff and has served as compradore in the disbursing office of the Consulate under sixteen Consuls-General, being the oldest and only Chinese consular officer in the U. S. service in China. Mr. Wong has seen many changes in Shanghai and in the U. S. consular work since the time he joined the staff. At that time there were few foreign houses and the U. S. Consulate was located in the old Japanese Consular buildings, now a godown at 36 Whangpoo Road. Later the consulate removed to Kiukiang Road and then to its present location at 12 Whangpoo Road. Mr. Wong said there have been great changes from the time when they rented their buildings, which were only valued at Tls. 8,000 and now when the land is worth Tls. 60,000 and the buildings are government owned. Mr. Wong is the father of six sons, has eight grandsons, and two great-grandsons. He now resides with Mrs. Wong at 14 Morrison Road. One of Mr. Wong's sons, Homer Wong, who received his education at St. John's University, is Deputy Director General of Posts at Peking and another Yates Wong, ​former interpreter at the U. S. Consulate-General, is now with the Canton-Hankow Railway. It was during the year of 1879 when General Grant was on a tour of the world that Mr. Wong met General Grant in Shanghai and acted as his escort to the various nearby Chinese towns. When General Grant departed from Shanghai he gave to the young Chinese gentleman, who had escorted him a solid gold American eagle emblem, which Mr. Wong has worn as a watch charm these many years. Mr Wong is also the recipient of an engraved silver cup which was donated by the consular authcrities to him for his remarkable record of fifty years of service for the government of the United States. The cup was presented by M. F. Perkins, acting Consul-General in 1921. Since the time of Mr. Wong's connectior with the U. S. Consulate the following Consuls-General have served at the Shanghai post; G. F. Seward, 1871-1876; W. Willis, 1876-1877; L. H. Bailey, 1877-1880; T. Mylers, 1880-1883; J, Stohel; 1883-1886; J. D. Kennedy, 1886-1889; J. A. Leonard, 1889-1893; 0. N. Denning, 1893-1898; W. Smithers, 1895-1897; T. R. Jernigan, 1896-189; J. Goodnow, 1899-1904; C. Denby, 1904-1906; J. L. Rodgers, 1906-1909; A. P. Wilder, 1909-1914; T. Sammons, 1914-1919; and E. S. Cunningham 1919-to the present.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang K'e-ming

Mr. Wang K'e-ming
王克敏字叔魯
​Mr. Wang K'e-ming was born at Hangchow, Chekiang Province, in 1879, and was a provincial graduate in the Ching Dynasty. In 1900 Mr. Wang was appointed by the authorities of the Province of Chekiang, director of the students sent by that province to study in Japan and in 1901 he became director of the Chinese students studying in Japan. In 1902 he was appointed councillor to the Chinese Legation in Tokyo, which position he retained until 1907 when he went to Peking and received an appointments in the Board of Finance and also the Board of Foreign Affairs. Subsequently Mr. Wang became secretary to General Chao Erh-hsun who was then Viceroy of Szechuan. In 1908 he joined the Secretariat of Viceroy Yang Shih-hsiang of Chihli and he was in charge of the foreign affairs section. In 1910 he was appointed Acting Commissioner of Foreign Affairs of Chihli and in June 1911 this position w^s substantiated to him. During the First Revolution in 1911-12 he assisted in maintaining order and peace for the port of Tientsin. He resigned from the post of Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in the spring of 1913, to take a trip to Europe and particularly in France. Upon his return to Tientsin in October 1913 he accepted the post of managing-director of the Banque Industrielle de China. In July 1917 Mr. Wang was elected by the shareholders and appointed by the government, President of the Bank of China. In November 1917 he was appointed Minister of Finance holding concurrently the posts of President of the Bank of China and the Director General of the Salt Administration. In March 1918 Mr. Wang resigned from all of these posts and went into retirement although he accepted occasional special commissions from the government. In December 1918 he was appointed a Member of the Northern Delegation to the Internal Peace Conference held in Shanghai. In June 1922 Mr. Wang was again elected President of the Bank of China. In January 1923 he was made a Member of the Commission on the Educational Fund. In July 1923 he was appointed Acting Minister of Finance which position he did not accept and was officially relieved from it in August 1923. In October 1923 be resigned from the post of President of the Bank of China and in November 1923 acted temporarily as Minister of Finance. In January 1924 Mr. Wang was appointed Minister of Finance in the Sun Pao-chi Cabinet. This position he is still holding. Mr. Wang has been awarded First Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho and First Class Wenfu, is also the recipient of many foreign decorations.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang Chih-p'ing

Dr. C. P. Wang
王治平字化清
(Wang Chih.p'ing)
Dr. C. P. Wang was born in Peking, and was graduated from the Peking Methodist University in 1900. After his graduation Dr. Wang was appointed by the Methodist Mission to be pastor at Chien Wei Chen outside Shanhaikuan. In 1901 he was transferred to Fu-Ning Hsien, Chihli province. From 1902 to 1907 Dr. Wang was engaged in educational work ​at Shanhaikuan under the auspices of the Methodist Mission and was for a larger part of this period principal of the Middle School there. In the fall of 1907 he was called to Peking and given a professorship in the Methodist University. He served as dean of the Chinese Department while he was also teaching English. In 1914 Dr. Wang went to America for graduate work and received the degree of M. A. in 1915 and that of Ph.D. in 1917. Upon his return to China in 1917 Dr. Wang became Professor of Political History in the Methodist University. In the winter of 1919 he was invited by the Tientsin Y. M. C. A. to be its assistant general secretary and since 1922 he has been general secretary of the Tientsin Y. M. C. A., and for several years has served on the committee of the Y. M. C. A. of China.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang Ching-ch'en

General Wang Ching-ch'en
汪慶辰字幼農
​General Wang Ching-cheng, was born in Yihsien, Anhui province, in 1871. He graduated from the Peiyang Military College in 1904, in which year he left for Japan to enter the Military Cadets' Academy of Japan, completing his course on Commissary in 1906. Following his return to China, he was appointed instructor of the Peiyang Army and chief of the educational section of the Peiyang Training Bureau and other offices. Upon the establishment of the Republic, General Wang became garrison commander of the Fourth Division of the Peiyang Army Corps and was later transferred to be superintendent of the Commissariat of the National Training Corps, concurrently acting as councillor of the Bureau of the General Staff and War and Senior Councillor of the Precautionary Forces of Shantung. Since 1920 he was chief of staff to the Defence Commissioner of Sunkiang and Shanghai, also commanding the Woosung Forts and co-director of the Kiangnan Arsenal at Shanghai. He was considered as one of the most capable soldiers of the time during the Yuan Shih-kai regime and since his appointment at Shanghai, he won for himself an enviable reputation not only as a soldier but also as General Ho's advisor on local matters arising out of his office.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Blatchley Briggs

​BRIGGS, Mrs. Mary Blatchley, born in Valparaiso, Ind., 1st January, 1846. She is of Scotch, English and Dutch descent. The father was a practicing physician and surgeon of prominence in the allopathic school. Mrs. Briggs' early school-days were spent in the public schools of Iowa. Later her education was continued in the young ladies' seminary in Council Bluffs, Iowa, receiving prizes for excellent scholarship. In the month of August, 1861, her family removed to Ouincy, III., where she resumed her studies and there enjoyed the advantages of the best schools until she was nineteen years old. In religious belief Mrs. Briggs is strictly a Presbyterian, was born "in the faith," and has always lived the radical life of a consistent Christian. Rev. F. S. Blayney, LL.D., the first pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Omaha, writes of Mrs. Briggs's practical and valuable aid during the long and severe trials from 1880 to 1886 in the struggle to found and build his church, she being one of the foremost workers for the society's welfare. She has always taken a vivid interest in public characters and the local and foreign politics discussed in the newspapers. She was married to John S. Briggs, 24th December, 1867, since which time they have resided in Omaha, Neb. Mr. Briggs was born in Ohio, but was reared in Iowa, MARY BLATCHLEY BRIGGS. removing to Nebraska in 1856. He is the son of the late Ansel Briggs, first governor of the State of Iowa. To Mr. anil Mr*. Brings three promising children have been born. Mrs. Briggs as filled many important public positions. During eleven years she served as assistant secretary, superintendent, reporter for the press, and manager of county. State and inter-state fairs. While on a visit to Idaho, she and her husband prepared a collection of minerals, stalactitic and calcareous deposits, which, at the suggestion of the officials of the Union Pacific Railroad, was sent to the Mechanics' Institute in Boston, Mass. Mrs. Briggs is interested in art and is secretary of the Western Art Association, which has three-hundred members. In literature she has won an assured position by her poems, one volume of which has been compiled and published. Mrs. Briggs was selected by Mrs. Potter Palmer as one of the six representative women of the West to serve on the executive committee of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Commission for the Exposition in 1893. She was appointed a member of the bylaws judiciary committee and was elected an honorary and corresponding member of the woman's branch of the World's Congress Auxiliary, and served on several committees. She possesses an intimate knowledge of Nebraska, its history, its resources, its development and its people
# Woman of the Century/Mary Carroll Craig Bradford

​BRADFORD, Mrs. Mary Carroll Craig, correspondent, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 10th August, 1856. MARY CARROLL CRAIG BRADFORD. She comes from a long line of mental aristocrats, being a direct descendant from Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. She never attended school, but was educated privately by masters and governesses. She has traveled extensively both at home and abroad. She was in Geneva, Switzerland, during the year of the Arbitration, and while there met and enjoyed the society of some of the arbitrators. Her first appearance in print was at the age of twelve in a story, but she only began to write regularly and professionally at twenty-two. At the age of nineteen she was married to LieuL Edward Taylor Bradford, of the United States Navy, a son of the Paymaster-General of the Navy, and grandson of the famous Boston preacher, familiarly called "Father Taylor." Her literary work has been diversified. She has been a regular contributor to the Brooklyn "Eagle," the New Orleans " Picayune, " the "Esoteric," the "Commonwealth," "Christian Union," the "Rocky Mountain News," and other magazines and papers. Her lectures have been on glimpses of her travels and on theosophy. Her home is now in Colorado Springs. Col.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Catharine Hickman

​MARY CATHARINE HICKMAN. HICKMAN, Mrs. Mary Catharine, journalist, born in Hanover, Columbiana county, Ohio, 7th November, 1838. Her father, David Arter, was of German descent and was remarkable for energy and force of character. Her mother was a woman of much natural refinement and great gentleness and kindness of disposition. She was the daughter of Henry Laffer, distinguished in his day as a general, judge and legislator. Mrs. Hickman was endowed with fine natural ability and maintained a high rank in all her classes as a school-girl, although delicate health interfered somewhat with her early studies. In 1857 she was graduated from the Cleveland Female Seminary, and a year later became the wife of Rev. S. M. Hickman, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For several years the cares of a growing family and participation in her husband's labors prevented Mrs. Hickman from exercising to any great extent her gift for literary work. During the last twelve years she has resumed the use of the pen, contributing frequently to the Cleveland "Leader" and other papers. Possessing strong moral convictions and wide sympathies, Mrs. Hickman has made a study of social and humanitarian problems, and has generally chosen to write on subjects connected with some phase of reform, in which she has become especially interested. She has been prominently connected with temperance and missionary societies since their first organization, and much of her work has been that of an outspoken champion of those two great movements. She is an active member of the Ohio Woman's Press Association. Although keeping in touch with all the great questions of the day, she has not allowed other interests to interfere with those nearest her own home. Of her six children, four are living, two sons and two daughters. For sixteen years past she has lived in or near Cleveland, Ohio.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Clement Leavitt

​LEAVITT, Mrs. Mary Clement, missionary temperance organizer, born in Boston, Mass. She comes from an old New England family prominent in the early days of the Colonies. She was educated
MARY CLEMENT LEAVITT. in Boston and, after completing her studies, conducted a successful private school in that city, continuing the work until her children were grown up. She nad been prominent in temperance work for years, and was elected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Boston and national organizer of the society. In 1883 she accepted from the president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Miss Willard, a roving commission as a pioneer for the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which was organized in that year. Since then Mrs. Leaviit's work has been without a parallel in the records of labor in foreign missions. She commenced with a canvass of the Pacific-coast States, and, when volunteers were asked for, she was the first one to answer the call to go abroad in the interests of the new organization. The association offered to pay her expenses, and $1,000 had been subscribed to- wards the funds, but she decided not to accept it. She said: "I'm going on God's mission, and He will carry me through." She bought her ocean ticket with her own money, and in 1883 sailed from California for the Sandwich Islands. In Honolulu the Christians and white-ribboners aided her in every way. and after organizing the Sandwich Islands she went on to Australia, where she established the new order firmly. In 1884 the local unions raised $2,613 for her, but she would receive money only in emergencies, and the amount forwarded to her was only $1,670. Leaving Australia, she visited other countries. During the eight years of her remarkable missionary tour she visited the following countries: Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Japan, China, Siam, Straits Settlements, Singapore and Malay ​Peninsula, Burmah, Hindoostan, Ceylon, Mauritius, Madagascar, Natal, Orange Free State, Cape Colony, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Congo Free State, Old Calabar, Sierra Lione, Madeira, Spain, France, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Syria and Turkey. She organized eighty-six Woman's Christian Temperance Unions, twenty-four men's temperance societies, mostly in Japan, India and Madagascar, and twenty-three branches of the White Cross, held over one-thousand-six-hundred meetings, traveled nearly one-hundred-thousand miles, and had the services of two-hundred-twenty-nine interpreters in forty-seven languages. Her expenses were paid with money donated to her in the places she visited. She returned to the United States in 1891. Since her return she has published a pamphlet, "The Liquor Traffic in Western Africa. " Her next missionary tour was made in Mexico. Central America and South America. She is corresponding secretary of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. During her great tour of the world she never in seven vears saw a face she knew, and only occasional fetters from her enabled the home workers to know where she was laboring.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Blair Moody

​MOODY, Mrs. Mary Blair, physician, born in Barker, Broome county. N. Y., 8th August, 1837. She is descended from the earliest New England settlers. Her father, Asa Edson Blair, was a man of the highest standing in the farming community MARY BLAIR MOODY. to which he belonged. Her mother, Caroline Pease, was well-known to readers of magazine poetry twenty-five years ago under her nom de plume "Waif Woodland." After receiving the ordinary common-school training of that day, Dr. Moody for some years led the life of a student and teacher. She taught in public schools, in the Five Points House of Industry in New York, founded by her uncle, and in a female seminary, at the same time prosecuting her own studies. In 1860 she married and is the mother of seven children, all but one of whom are now living. Soon after her marriage she commenced a course of study in the Philadelphia Woman's Medical College, but failing health and the cares of a growing family prevented its completion. The work of caring for and educating her children absorbed the larger part of her attention for a number of years. She personally taught each one of them until they were ready to enter the higher grades of the public schools and has constantly supervised and directed their studies from that time on. In 1876 she graduated with honors from the Buffalo Medical College and has been engaged since then in active and successful practice. She was the first woman to receive a diploma from the Buffalo college. Even in her medical work, her capacity as an educator has been conspicuous, for her efforts towards teaching the families to which she has been called how to avoid disease by following proper sanitary laws have been no less earnest than her endeavors to heal disease and relieve pain. In Buffalo, the scene of many years of her professional activity, she established courses of health lectures, was prominent in the foundation of the Women's Gymnasium, and with the aid of others established a free dispensary for women and children, the latter enterprise being wholly managed by women. She is a member of the National Medical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Microscopical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Women and other organizations. Her home is now in Fair Haven Heights, Conn.