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# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Li Yuan-hsin

Mr. William Yinson Lee
李元信
(Li Yuan-hsin)
Mr. William Yinson Lee of Brewer Manufacturing Cremists, wholesale druggists and merchants, was born at Sydney, N. S. W. Australia, in 1884. He was the eldest son of the later W. R. G. Lee, well-known merchant of Sydney, Hongkong and Heungshan City (Canton), Kwangtung, and received his English and Chinese education under private tutors in Australia and Hongkong. He came to China in 1903 and joined Johnson, Stokes & Master, a leading legal firm in Hongkong andi became closely associated with the late Sir Boshan Wei Yuk, K. C. M. G. and the late Sir Hormusjee Mody, ​In 1909, as representative of an influential group of Hongkong merchants, Mr. Yinson accompanied Admiral Li Tsun upon a visit and survey of Yulinkan, Hainan Island (the southernmost point in China, at that time proposed as a naval base), also visiting and surveying the Paracels, a group of islands lying between Hainan and the Philippines. He spent from 1910 to 1922 in commercial pursuits in Australia, Hongkong and Canton, located principaly in Sydney, N. S. W., but paying frequent visit to China. Mr. Yinson Lee is a vigorous writer and was a frequent contributor to the leading press of Australia the defence of Chinese matters. During the war, he was instrumental in securing the sanction of the Commonwealth government, the State government of New South Wales and the Municipal Council of Sydney for the inclusion of the Chinese flag among those of the principal allied nations when officially displayed, which example was followed by the general public in the principal cities, the Chinese in Australia greatly appreciating the recognition. He is a life governor of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital the principal hospital in Sydney; and is one of the two Chinese members of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, a prominent member of the Millions Club of New South Wales and the Masonic Club of Sydney, a Mason holding the highest degrees in the New South Wales, Scottish and American Constitution and a Shriner of Aleppo Temple, Boston, Mass. He holds the distinction of being the youngest Mason ever initiated in Australia, being only 18 years and 3 months old when he received his initiation by special dispensation of the M. W. Grandmaster for New South Wales, Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, State Governor. Mr. Yinson Lee made a tour of the South Sea Islands, Australia, Europe and America in 1922-3 securing business connections and came to China to open the China Branch of Brewer & Co. Inc. of Worcester, Mass., of which he is co-director, in January 1924. He is a charter member and president of the Y Men's Club of Shanghai, affiliated with the International Association of Y Men's Clubs. Toledo O. Mr. Yinson Lee possesses a unique collection of rare procelain and ancient Chinese coins.
# Who's Who in the Far East/KABAYAMA, Admiral Count Sukenori

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​ KABAYAMA, Admiral Count Sukenori (TOKYO), Privy Councillor; b. Satsuma, Nov., 1837. Was on Staff of Major-General Tani (then Commander of Kumamoto Army Division) in Civil War of 1877, as Lieut. -Colonel; transferred to Navy, 1884; promoted Vice-Admiral, 1885; appointed Vice-Minister, 1886, and Mkiister of Navy, 1890-1892; in rhino-Japanese War was Chief of Naval Staff, and, on board tansport "Saikyo-maru," was present at battle of Yellow Sea, Sept., 1894; was first Governor of Formosa; appointed Minister of Home Affairs, Sept., 1896, to Dec., 1897; Minister of Education, Nov., 1898, to Sept., 1900; Privy Councillor, 1904; promoted full Admiral, May, 1895; created Viscount, 1884, as reward for distinguished service in connection with Restoration; created Count, 1895, for services in Chino-Japanese War. Decoration: 2nd order of the Golden Kite. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/K'UEI-SHUN

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​ K'UEI-SHUN (PEKING), Military Governor; native of Manchuria. Kan-Liang Tao, Kansu, May, 1885; Imperial Agent, Shi-Ning, Oct., 1892; called to Peking for duty, Dec., 1898; Dep.-Lieut. -General, Bordered White Banner Corps, July, 1900; Lieut. -Governor, Chahar, 1901; Military Governor, Uliasut'ai (N.W. Mongolia) Jan., 1905; transferred to Peking, July, 1905.
# Who's Who in the Far East/KAHLER, W. R.

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​ KAHLER, W. R. (SHANGHAI), Editor and Proprietor of "The Union;" came to China, 1859. Publications: Several works on China. Address: 24A, Nanking Road, Shanghai, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/K'UEI-PIN, Lieut-General Prince Jui

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​ K'UEI-PIN, Lieut-General Prince Jui (eight princely families); Lieut-General, Yellow Banner Corps, Oct., 1893; Vice-President, Imperial Clan Court, March, 1899; Lieut. -General, Bordered White Banner Corps, Feb., 1901.
# Who's Who in the Far East/K'UO-P'U-T'UNG-WU

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​K'UO-P'U-T'UNG-WU (HSI-NING), native of Manchuria; metropolitan graduate, 1886. Tutor, Imperial Academy; Deputy Supervisor, Imperial Instruction, 1894; Expositor, Hanlin, 1894; degraded to sub-Reader, Hanlin, May, 1894; assistant Supervisor of Instruction, June, 1895; Chief Supervisor of Instruction, April, 1893; sub-Chancellor, Grand Secretariat, Sept., 1896; Vice -President, Board of Ceremonies, Sept., 1898; Imperial Agent, Hsi-ning, Dec., 1898; retired May, 1903.
# Who's Who in the Far East/KAIJIMA, Tasuke

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​ KAIJIMA, Tasuke ( F UKUOKA ), Coal-mine proprietor; b. Fukuokaken, Oct., 1844. Is lessee of a large tract of coal-bearing area in Fukuoka-ken. Address: Fukuokaken, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/K'UEI HUAN

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​ K'UEI HUAN (ULIASUT'AI), Military Assistant Governor; native of Mongolia. Sub-Director, Imperial Stud Court, 1888; assistant Director, Admiralty Office; assistant Resident Tibet, March, 1891; Resident, Tibet, Nov., 1892; vacated post, March, 1896; Military Assistant Governor, Uliasut'ai, Mongolia, Oct., 1899.
# Who's Who in the Far East/K'UN-HSIU, Lieut-General

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​K'UN-HSIU, Lieut-General (PEKING), native of Manchuria; provincial graduate. Secretary of Office of Transmission; Deputy Commissioner, Office of Transmission, March, 1891; Director Sacrificial Worship, Aug., 1891: Assistant.Superintendent, Board of Admiralty; Sub. Chancellor, Grand Secretariat, Jan.. 1894; junior Vice-President, Hoard of Ceremonies, Dec., 1895; Deputy Lieut-General, Red Banner Corps, Aug., 1896; senior Vice-President, Board of Ceremonies, Jan., 1897; cashiered, Sept.,1898; Vice-president, Board of Punishment, Oct., 1898; Brigade-General, Na-lanchen, June, 1900; Vice-President, Mongolian Superintendency, Oct., 1903; Lieut-General. Bordered Blue Mauchu Banner Corps, July, 1905.
# Who's Who in the Far East/KADOORIE, E. S.

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​ KADOORIE, E. S. (HONGKONG), Share and General Broker. Head of firm of E. S. Kadoorie and Co. Club: Hongkong. Addrexx: St. George's Building, Hongkong.
# Who's Who in the Far East/KAGAWA, Viscount Keizo

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​ KAGAWA, Viscount Keizo (TOKYO), Lord Steward of Empress's Household; b., Mito, Nov., 1839. Appointed an Official in Imperial Household Department in 1870; has occupied present position since 1880; created Viscount, 1887. Addrexs: Tokyo, Japan.
# Woman of the Century/Adaline Emerson Thompson

​THOMPSON, Mrs. Adaline Emerson, educational worker and reformer, born in Rockford, Ill., 13th August. 1859. ADALINE EMERSON THOMPSON. Her father was Ralph Emerson, a son of Prof. Ralph Emerson, of Andover. Mass., who was a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was a man of singularly strong character. With discernment he read the signs of the times, and, before it was a usual thing for girls to go to college, when most men were still questioning their fitness for training, either mentally or physically, he decided that his daughters should have the most liberal education that could be obtained. Adaline entered Wellesley College in 1877 and was graduated with honor in 1880. The thesis which she presented on that occasion showed that she possessed literary ability. After graduating she returned to her home in Rockford, Ill., and in 1883 became the wife of Norman Frederick Thompson. The first five years after her marriage were uneventful. Two children and the details of her home occupied her attention. Upon the removal of her household to New York, in 1888, her days of mental activity began. As president of the Woman's Club, of Orange, and also of the New York Associated Alumnæ, she has won recognition as a leader and presiding officer, but in the College Settlements' Association her organizing force his been most largely expended. Believing that the true way to reach and help the poor in the large cities is through the intimate personal contact which comes from living among them, and further, that the only way to solve the sociological problems pressing so heavily upon us is through knowledge gained at first-hand by thinking men and women, she has thrown her energy and enthusiasm into this home extension movement. As its president she has carried the association successfully through all the trials and difficulties which beset any new organization. She now lives in East Orange, N. J.
# Woman of the Century/Adah J. Todd

​TODD, Miss Adah J., author and educator, was born in Redding, Fairfield county, Conn. ADAH J. TODD. Descended on her father's side from Christopher Todd, one of the pioneer settlers of New Haven Colony, and on her mother's side from Jehue Burre, of Fairfield, she inherits sterling character from a double line of Puritan ancestry. As her father had a large family and little wealth, he could give his daughter only the advantages of the common schools and a preparatory school. Her thirst for knowledge was insatiable, and by teaching in summer and writing throughout the year she succeeded in paying her expense in college and received from Syracuse University the degree of A.B., in 1880. By her own efforts and in opposition to the wishes of her friends, she continued her studies in Greek and philosophy and won the degree of A.M., in Syracuse, in 1883. In 1886 Boston University conferred upon her the degree of Ph. D. for work in languages and literature. She was valedictorian of one of her classes and salutatorian of another. With the tastes of a student she combined practical and executive ability. In 1880-81 she was teacher of languages and lady principal in Xenia College, Ohio. She resigned to continue her studies. In 1883 she accepted the position of science teacher in the Bridgeport, Conn., high school, and was the first to introduce the full laboratory method into the public schools of Connecticut. Her work in that department was very successful and she received for it about half the salary a man would have received. At a later period she took charge of Greek in the same school, fitting pupils for Yale, Harvard and women's colleges, and having many private pupils in both Greek and Latin. In the summer of 1887 she had care of the department of physiology in the summer school for teachers in Martha's Vineyard. She always had a strong inclination for literary work, and her first published articles appeared when she was sixteen. During the last ten years she has written for various papers and magazines, made translations, assisted in the revision of Shepard's "Elements of Chemistry," and furnished weekly papers on natural history for the "Living Church" of Chicago, in 1891. In the summer of 1892 her first book was published under the title, "The Vacation Club." She is a member of several literary, philanthropic and social clubs. Her home is in Redding.
# Woman of the Century/Adaline Hohf Berry

​BERRY, Mrs. Adaline Hohf, author, born in Hanover, Pa., 20th December, 1859. She removed with her parents, at the age of four years, to Maryland, where she spent her childhood days amid the rural sights and sounds along the quiet Linganore. In 1870 her family removed to Iowa, where, as a school-girl in her teens, she first attempted verse. A talent for composition began its development about that time, and sketches from her pen, in the form of both poetry and prose, found their way into the local papers. She gave no particular evidence of a tendency to rhyme until 1884, at which time she resided in Illinois, when the death of a friend called forth a memorial tribute, which received such commendation from personal friends as to encourage her to ADALINE HOHF BERRY. continue to work in verse, and poems were frequently written by her afterward. She completed the academic course of Mt. Morris College (Illinois) in 1882, and about six months after graduation entered a printing office as compositor. She worked at the case more than four years and in May, 1885, undertook the editing of "The Golden Dawn," an excellent but short-lived magazine published in Huntingdon, Pa. On 20th June, 1888, she was married to William Berry, an instructor in vocal music, and soon after rendered him valuable assistance in compiling an excellent song-book, "Gospel Chimes," writing hymns and some music for it. She and her husband are at present happily located in Huntingdon, and Mrs. Berry is editing a child's paper known as "The Young Disciple." Her family consists of one child, a son, born in February', 1891. She is of mixed ancestry. Her father, Michael Hohf, was of Dutch extraction, and her mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Bucher, was of Swiss blood. Born in a community of "Pennsylvania Dutch," that language was the first she learned to speak.
# Woman of the Century/Addie Dickman Miller

​MILLER, Mrs. Addie Dickman, born in West Union, Iowa, 26th July, 1859. Her maiden name was Dickman. In 1863 her parents moved to a farm near that town, where her youthful years were passed in quiet. Her schooling from her seventh to her fourteenth year was limited to a few months each year. She was the oldest of nine children. From her refined and educated mother she learned music and inherited literary tastes. From her public-spirited father she imbibed a taste for discussing current questions of public interest ADDIE DICKMAN MILLER.
# Woman of the Century/Adelaide Avery Claflin

​CLAFLIN, Mrs. Adelaide Avery, woman suffragist, born in Boston, Mass , 28th July, 1846. She is a daughter of Alden Avery and Luanda Miller Brown, both natives of Maine, and both of English extraction, although there is a little Scotch-Irish blood on the Miller side. Narcissa Adelaide was the second of four children. Her father, although an active business man, had much poetical and religious feeling. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Church, and, on account of his eloquence, was often in earlier life advised to become a minister. Her mother, of a practical, common-sense temperament, had much appreciation of nature and of scientific fact, and a gift for witty and concise expression of thought. So from both parents Mrs. Claflin has derived the ability to speak with clearness and epigrammatic force. Adelaide was sixteen when she was graduated from the Boston girls' high school, and a year or two later she became a teacher in the Winthrop school. Although in childhood attending the Methodist Church with their parents, both her sister and herself early adopted the so-called liberal faith, and joined the church of Rev. James Freeman Clarke. She became the wife of Frederic A. Claflin, ​of Boston, in 1870, a man of keen and thoughtful mind and generous and kindly spirit They have for many years resided in Quincy, Mass., and have a son and three daughters. In 1883 Mrs. ADELAIDE AVERY CLAFLIN. Claflin began to speak in public as an advocate of woman suffrage. In 1884 she was elected a member of the Quincy school committee, and served three years in that position, being the only woman who ever held office in that conservative town. Although too much occupied with family cares to take a very active part in public life, her pen is busied in writing for the Boston papers, and she finds opportunity to give lectures, and has occasionally been on short lecturing tours outside of the limits of New England. Best known as a woman suffragist, she writes and speaks on various other topics, and her wide range of reading and thinking makes it probable that her future career as a lecturer will not be limited chiefly to the woman suffrage field.
# Woman of the Century/Ada Palmer Roberts

​ROBERTS, Mrs. Ada Palmer, poet, born in North East, Dutchess county, N. Y., 14th February, 1852. Her father, Elijah Palmer, was a scholarly lawyer, who had poetical talent. His satirical poems, many of which were impromptu, did much to make him popular as a lawyer. From her father Mrs. Roberts inherited poetical talent. From him she received most of her early education, as her delicate health would not permit her to be a regular attendant in school. ADA PALMER ROBERTS. When she was sixteen years old, her education was sufficient for her to teach a private school, her pupils having been her former playmates. She was married 31st January, 1878, and household duties, maternal cares and recurring ill health have kept her from doing regular literary work. Her poetical productions have not been intended for publication, but have come from her love of writing. She has published but few poems, and some of them have found a place in prominent periodicals, the "Youth's Companion," the New York "Christian Weekly" and others. Mrs. Roberts' home is in Oxford, Conn.
# Woman of the Century/Ada Miser Kepley

​ADA MISER KEPLEY. KEPLEY, Mrs. Ada Miser, attorney-at-law, temperance agitator and minister, born in Somerset, Ohio, 11th February, 1847. She is of Scotch-Irish and German ancestry. Among her ancestors was William Temple Coles, who came to the Colonies in the ship that brought General Braddock. Mr. Coles had been educated for the English Church, but, instead of taking holy orders, he turned his face towards the land of promise. He settled near Salisbury, in North Carolina. His only son, William Temple Coles, jr., was a captain in the Revolutionary War. His only daughter, Henrietta, was one of the pioneer Methodists of America, and settled in Bedford, Pa. She was known as "Mother Fishburn." She collected the money and secured the site for the first Methodist Episcopal Church in that town, and in the new structure now occupying the site is a stained-glass window commemorating her and her daughter, Elizabeth Fishburn. The Temples trace their lineage directly to Sir William Temple. The family were intense haters of the institution of slavery. William Temple Coles, sr., even refused to have a slave in his house, and brought over white servants from England. In Mrs. Kepley this intense hatred of slavery has taken the form of hatred for the bodily slavery of alcoholic drink. She is best known for her work for the abolition of alcoholic drinking and of the laws that perpetuate the evil habit. In 1867 she became the wife of Henry B. Kepley, a well-known attorney, of Effingham, III. She became interested in law and began the study of the profession in her husband's office. She studied during 1868 and 1869, and was graduated in the Union College of Law, in Chicago, in 1870. She is a member of the bar. She has been identified with the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and also with the Illinois State branch of that organization. She is the editor of the "Friend of Home," a flourishing monthly established seven years ago. In its pages she expounds the law, demands its enforcement, declares for new laws and suggests ways to secure them. Her work has been positive and well directed. She has made a specialty of exposing the hidden roots of the liquor traffic in her town and county, and the readers of the "Friend of Home" know who are the grantors, grantees, petitioners and bondmen for dram-shops. She has made a specialty of children's and young people's work in her county, and achieved a high position in that line in 1890. She and her husband erected and support "The Temple," in Effingham, a beautiful building, which is headquarters for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, prohibition and general reform work. Mrs. Kepley's ancestors ​were Episcopalians, Catholics and Methodists in religion, from which combination she is, by a natural process, a Unitarian in belief, and 24th July, 1892, she was ordained a minister of that denomination in Shelbyville. Ill.
# Woman of the Century/Adelaide Day Rollston

​ROLLSTON, Mrs. Adelaide Day, poet and author, was born near Paducah, Ky. Her earliest years were spent in the country, in the midst of a ADELAIDE DAY ROLLSTON. landscape of quiet, pastoral beauty. Her father was a physician of good standing. At the age of twelve years her talent for writing verse began to manifest itself in brief poems published in the local press. Later, several appeared in the defunct "Saturday Star-Journal," of New York. She was educated in St Mary's Academy, in Paducah, to which city her parents had removed when she was twelve years old, and where she still lives. After the conclusion of her school-life she continued her contributions to the neighboring press, and frequently verses over her name appeared in the "Courier-Journal" of Louisville. They attracted little or no attention, until she found a friend and helper in the veteran of the Kentucky press, Col. H. M. McCarty, who blamed when necessary and gave praise when praise was due. Still, her path upward has been one of stem struggle. "I could not explain to you, or any one else," says she, "just what difficulties I have had to fight against." In 1877 she began to contribute to the "Current," and since then she has won wide recognition as a contributor to "Once a Week," "Youth's Companion," "Godey's Lady's Book" and other eastern periodicals of high standing. She has also written several novelettes.
# Woman of the Century/Adelaide George Bennett

​BENNETT, Mrs. Adelaide George, poet, born in Warner, N. H., 8th November, 1848. Her childhood was passed under the shadow of the famed Kearsarge Mountain. She is the daughter of Gilman C. and Nancy B. George and a sister of H. Maria George, who is also well-known in literary circles. She was educated in Contoocook Academy and under private tutors. She taught several years in the public schools of Manchester, N. H. In October, 1887, Miss George was married to Charles H. Bennett, of Pipestone City, Minn. Their marriage was quite a romantic one and was noticed by many papers of the country. The fascinating glamour of legend, woven into poetry by the master hand of Longfellow in his "Song of Hiawatha," led her to covet a piece of the "blood-red mystic stone " for her cabinet of geological curiosities, and she wrote to the postmaster of Pipestone City, then a paper town surveyed within the precincts of the sacred quarry, for a specimen of the stone. The specimen was forwarded by Mr. Bennett, accompanied by a set of views of the quarry and surrounding region, and a correspondence and acquaintance followed, which resulted in their marriage. On their bridal tour, while calling upon Mr. Longfellow, they informed him that he had unwittingly been a match-maker. As they went down the steps of the old colonial mansion, the venerable figure of the immortal poet was framed in the wide doorway as he beamed a benediction upon them and wished them much joy at their "hanging of the crane." Mrs. Bennett wrote no poems for the press until after her marriage. When she did write for publication, it was at the solicitation of her husband. She is a botanist of distinction. During the season of 1883 she made a collection of the flora of the Pipestone region for Prof. Winchell's report on the botanical resources of Minnesota. That collection was, at the request of Prof. Winchell, exhibited in the New Orleans World's Exposition in 1884. She is an active member of the Woman's Relief Corps, and during 1888-89 she held the office of National Inspector of ADELAIDE GEORGE BENNETT. Minnesota. She has quite a reputation throughout the West for the writing and rendition of poems on public occasions. Possessing rare qualifications for literary work, jhe has principally confined herself to poetry. She has an elegant prose style, as is shown in her correspondence and a number of fugitive newspaper and magazine articles.