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# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chang Yuan-shan

Mr. Yuan-shan Djang
章元善字彥馴
(Chang Yuan-shan)
Mr. Y. S. Djang was born at Soochow in 1892 where he received his preliminary education. From 1907 to 1901, he studied at Kiangnan College, Nanking. Before he went to America in 1911, he studied in the Tsinghua College for one year and obtained a scholarship. From 1911 to 1915 he took a course in Liberal arts at Cornell University. While there he was chief manager of the Chinese Students' Monthly and was editor of the Chinese Students' annual in 1913-14. He was graduated in 1915 with the degree of B. A. and returned to China in August of the same year. Mr. Djang was appointed upon his return Chemist of the Chihli ​ Industrial Laboratory and of the Pei Yang Plague Prevention Bureau. He also devoted much time in teaching and writing and also acted as lecturer in Sanitary Chemistry, Government University, Peking; teacher in the Chihli Middle School, Tientsin; editor of the Ladies' Journal, Shanghai; etc. For some time he was English secretary to the Bureau of Foreign Affairs of Chihli and Advisor to the Chihli Police Administration. Mr. Djang was secretary of the Cornell Alumni Association of North China in 1915; and Chinese secretary of American Returned Students' Club, Tientsin, 1916-17. In the winter of 1918, Mr. Djang was appointed general secretary of the Anti-Narcotic Society, Tientsin. From September 1920 to December 1921, he served as general secretary of the North China International Society of Finance Relief. Since January 1922, he has been associate executive secretary of the China International Famine Relief Commission, which has its headquarters in Peking. Being interested in social service, Mr. Djang held membership or offices in various public organizations in Capital. Mr. Djang is the author of many articles in both Chinese and foreign journals and of number of pamphlets among which are, An Outline of a System of School Calculated to Promote Mass Education in China and Ledger Account for Household Express.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chao Heng-t'i

Chao Heng-t'i
趙恆惕字炎午
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chao Hsi-en

Mr. S. U. Zau
趙錫恩字晉卿
(Chao Hsi-en)
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chao Kuo-t'sai

Mr. G. T. Chao
趙國材宁月潭
(Chao Kuo-sai)
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chang Yu-ch'uan

Dr. Y. C. Chang
張煜全字昶雲
(Chang Yu-Ch'uan)
Dr. Y. C. Chang was born at Canton in 1880. He studied at the Anglo-Chinese College, Poochow, from 1890, to 1891, and at the Queen's College in the following year and later at the Peiyang University. From 1898 to 1899 he studied at the Imperial University, Tokio, Japan. During the period he was awarded various prizes for high standing in Chinese, English and athletics. In August of 1901 Dr. Chang arrived in America ​to pursue a higher education. He studied law at the University of California and Yale University, where he graduated with a degree of LL.B. in 1903 and M.L. the following year. When the Chinese High Commissioners were appointed to go to Europe and America for the investigation of constitutional governments in 1906, he was appointed an attache. Upon his return he received the degree of Chin Shih (Doctor of Law) from the government after a competitive examination. From 1906 to 1907 Dr. Chang was Inspector of Schools in Shansi, Chihli, Shantung, Honan, etc. The next year found him as Second Secretary to the Chinese Legation in Japan. From 1910 to 1911 he was president of the College of Communications, Peking. He was promoted to be Secretary to the President and Councillor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs soon afterwards. In June 1913 he was appointed Commissioner for Foreign Affairs for Kiangsu Province. In October 1913 he was appointed superintendent of Customs of Wuhu and concurrently Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Anhwei province. The latter position he held until March 1915 when he was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Chang was appointed president of the Tsing Hua College in the autumn of 1918. In May 1919 he was conferred the Second Order of Chiaho. In January 1920 he was recalled to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In February 1920 Dr. Chang was conferred the Second Order of Tashou Chiaho. In September he was appointed Chief of the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry. In November he was appointed to hold concurrently the post of Chief-in-Charge of the Translation Bureau. In March 1921 Dr. Chang was appointed to act as Councillor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In June he was given the Second Order of Wenfu. In August he was appointed Councillor of the Ministry. In September he became an expert to the Chinese Delegation to the Pacific Conference. In May 1922 Dr. Chang was conferred the Second Order of Paokuang Chiaho. In Noveember he was appointed a member of the Commission on Russian Affairs. Dr. Chang is still Councillor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In June 1924 he was appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to be expert adviser to the Sino-Russian Conference.
# Woman of the Century/Marion E. Knowlton Warner

​WARNER, Mrs. Marion E. Knowlton, poet and story writer, burn in Geneva, Ohio, 15th June, 1839. She is a lifelong resident of the Western Reserve of Ohio, near Lake Erie. Her home is in Unionville, Lake county. A lineal descendant of the original Dutch of New York and of those who bore honorable part in the nation's struggle for liberty and independence, she inherits many strong traits of character. MARION E. KNOWLTON WARNER. She in early life gave evidence of the literary instinct, and she was not long in developing a taste for standard literature that has been abundantly gratified. At the age of eighteen her first story was published in the Cleveland "Gleaner," followed by others at frequent intervals. Her stories appeared in the local papers, giving evidence of more than average ability and attracting attention. About the same time she began to write poetry. Though afflicted with oft-recurring and severe illness, and though since the demise of her husband, some years ago, she has been occupied with the care of a large portion of his estate and with the guardianship of her young daughter, still she has found time for literary pursuits, and has contributed a collection of poems, published from time to time, generally over the signature " M. E. W."
# Woman of the Century/Marie Wilson Beasley

​BEASLEY, Mrs. Marie Wilson, elocutionist and dramatic reader, born in Silver Creek a suburb of Philadelphia, Pa., about 1862. When she was seven years old, her father removed to the West and settled on a farm near Grand Rapids, Mich. Marie lived on the farm until she was fourteen years old, when her father died, leaving the family to make their own way. Bearing good credentials from, the citizens of Paris, Kent county, Marie removed to Grand Rapids. She became a member of the Baptist Church at the age of fourteen years, but is liberal in sentiment towards all creeds that teach Christ and his works. In her youth, while striving to secure an education, she made her needle her support, earning by hard work enough money to enable her to attend Hillsdale College, Hillsdale. Mich., for a year. She afterwards studied under Professor Walter C. Lyman, of Chicago, and since 1SS3, when she made her début as an elocutionist and reader, and also as an instructor in the art of elocution, she has taught MARIE WILSON BEASLEY. many who are already prominent in that field, and her readings have brought her a reputation in many States. She was married in January, 1889, to J. H. Beasley, of Grand Rapids, where they now reside. They spent one year in San Francisco and other points in California. Besides her work as an elocutionist and instructor, she has been a successful lecturer, taking an active interest in the relation of women to law and society. The theme of one of her most successful efforts on the lecture platform is "Woman's Rights, or the XVI th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America." She is a woman of amiable disposition, much force and decided powers of intellect.
# Woman of the Century/Marietta M. Bones

​BONES, Mrs. Marietta M., woman suffragist and social reformer, born upon a farm in Clarion county. Pa., 4th May, 1842. Her father, James A. Wilkins, was born in Clarion county, where he resided for forty-eight years, when he removed to Iowa, and died six months later. Mr. Wilkins was a noted Abolitionist, known to have maintained an underground railroad station." The mother's (Jane Trumbull) family, the ​Trumbulls, were orginally from Connecticut, and were descendants of Jonathan Trumbull, better known by Washington's pet name, "Brother Jonathan." Her education was received in the Huidekooper MARIETTA M. BONES. Seminary, Meadville, Pa., and in the Washington, Pa , female seminary. Mrs. Bones was elected vice-president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for Dakota Territory, in 1881, and was annually re-elected for nine years. She made her debut as a public speaker in an oration at a Fourth of July celebration in Webster, Dak., in 1882. In September, 1883, she addressed Dakota's State Constitutional Convention on behalf of woman's enfranchisement. Failing to have her claim for woman's equality before the law recognized in the State Constitution there framed, she earnestly petitioned both houses of Congress to deny Dakota's admission to the Union as a State. Then she carried on several lively newspaper controversies against efforts to make the social question of temperance a political question. She is an active temperance worker and was secretary of the first Non-partisan National Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention in Chicago, in 1889, for which the local Woman's Temperance Union in Webster, over which she had presided the previous year, discharged her, returning her dues, paid nearly three months before, with an official notice "That the ladies of Webster union moved and carried that Mrs Bones' dues be returned on acccount of her having joined the secession movement, and also on account of her antagonism to our State president." As a pioneer settler in her town, she secured for it a donation of a block of lots for a courthouse and county buildings, and through her influence Day county was divided and a part added thereto, in order that the county-seat should be centrally located. So interested was she that their State capital should be situated at the geographical center, that the board of trade in the city of Pierre invited her to be the guest of their city. Through her intercession three infirm veterans of the war have been sent, at the expense of her county, to the Soldiers' Home in Hot Springs, S. Dak. Mrs. Bones was an able assistant of Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage in organizing the Woman's National Liberal Union. She addressed the convention in Washington, D. C., and is one of the executive council of that organization. The energy of Mrs. Bones knows no bounds when work is needed, and her perfect health helps her willing hand.
# Woman of the Century/Marion Howard Dunham

​MARION HOWARD DUNHAM. DUNHAM, Mrs. Marion Howard, born in Geauga county. Ohio, 6th December, 1842, passed the first part of her life upon a farm. She early decided to be a teacher, beginning her first district school at the age of fifteen, and taught in the public schools of Chicago. III., from 1866 to 1873. In July. 1873. she became the wife of C. A. Dunham, an architect, of Burlington. Iowa, where they now live. In 1877 she entered upon temperance work with the inauguration of the red-ribbon movement, but. believing in more permanent methods, she was the prime mover in the organization of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and has ever since been an active worker in that society. In 1883 she was elected State superintendent of the department of scientific temperance, and held the office four years, lecturing to institutes and general audiences on that subject much of the time. She procured the Iowa State law on that subject in February, 1886. When the Iowa State Temperance Union began to display its opposition to the National Union, she was rather slow to declare her position, which was always fully with the National, but she was soon forced to declare herself, and came to be considered rather a leader on the side of the minority. When the majority in the State Union seceded from the National Union, 16th October, 1890, she was elected resident of those who remained auxiliary to that body. At the State convention in 1891 she was re-elected. She has spent a large part of her time in the field. She has always been a radical equal suffragist, and has spoken and written much on that subject. She is a Christian socialist, deeply interested in all reforms that promise to better the social system and the conditions of life for the multitudes,
# Woman of the Century/Marietta E. Hughes

​HUGHES, Mrs. Marietta E., physician, was born in southern Michigan. She was educated in an academical school in Three Rivers, Mich., and the State Normal School in Ypsilanti. She taught successfully in the high school in Three Rivers for several years. The consideration of the injustice of the discrimination between male and female teachers in the matter of salary gave to the medical profession one of its most successful practitioners. After pursuing a thorough preparatory course with a preceptor, she took the regular course in the medical department of the University of Michigan in 1874 and 1875. She afterward entered the Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, Ill., MARIETTA E. HUGHES. and was graduated with high honors in that institution in the centennial class. A prize was awarded her for passing the best examination in gynecology. After her graduation, she at once took up active practice in her native State. Soon after graduating she became the wife of a classmate, Dr. C. A. Hughes. Leaving Detroit, Mich., in 1889, Dr. Hughes went to Spokane, Wash., since which time she and her husband, with whom she is associated in business, have been steadily establishing themselves in the confidence of the people. Their field of practice has so widened that at times it is impossible for them to supply the demand for their services. She is the mother of two sons. While she earns thousands a year by honest industry and brings health to hundreds, she gives far more time to her home, husband and children than do many society women.
# Woman of the Century/Marietta Stanley Case

​MARIETTA STANLEY CASE. CASE, Mrs. Marietta Stanley, author and temperance advocate, born in Thompson, Conn., 22nd August, 1845. The Stanleys are of Norman descent. Matthew Stanley, the paternal ancestor of Mrs. Case, came to this country in 1646 and settled in Massachusetts. Her father. Rev. E. S. Stanley, is a retired Methodist clergyman of the New Eng- land Southern Conference. While yet a school-girl. Miss Stanley wrote short poems for various papers. She wrote the commencement poem upon her graduation in 1866 from the East Greenwich Academy, Rhode Island, She also read a poem at a reunion of the alumna" of her alma mater in 1890. In June, 1868, she became the wife of A. Willard Case, a paper manufacturer of South Mancheater, Conn., where they have since resided. She wrote little during the years intervening between her having school and the year 1884, for she believed that her domestic duties and the care and education of her children ought to occupy her whole time. She was graduated in Chautauqua in the class of 1888. She has written poems for leading religious and temperance papers, and some of them have been issued in booklet form. Mrs. Case is interested in all work that has the uplifting of humanity for its object, and is especially interested in woman's temperance, home and foreign missionary work. She has three children, two daughters and a son, now in advanced schools. Her husband warmly approves her literary persuits.
# Woman of the Century/Marie Robinson Wright

​WRIGHT, Mrs. Marie Robinson, journalist, born in Newnan, Ga., 4th May, 1853. Her father, John Evans Robinson, was a cultured and wealthy planter. He was descended from an honorable English family, of which the knightly Sir George Evans was the head. Marie was a precocious girl, well matured in body and mind at the age of ​sixteen, when she made a romantic marriage by running away with Hinton Wright. Mr. Wright was the son of a prominent lawyer, Judge W. F. Wright, a gentleman distinguished for his scholarly attainments. MARIE ROBINSON WRIGHT. Being a bright, ambitious girl, she studied law with her husband, and sat by his side when he passed his final examination for the bar. She was blessed with two children, a daughter and a promising son. Loss of fortune followed soon after her marriage. Reared in the greatest affluence and trained to the old-fashioned southern idea that a woman should never venture outside the shelter of home in quest of a career, it was a cruel struggle to her when she realized that she would be compelled to go out into the hard and untried world to earn a living for herself and little ones. She was too proud, as well as too delicately reared, to go into any of the few situations, mostly menial, open to women at that time. Without preparation she launched into journalism. Her first work was done for the "Sunny South," a literary weekly published in Atlanta, Ga. She was immediately engaged upon that paper, and served it with marked ability for several years. She has been in newspaper work for eight years, and has been regularly connected with the New York "World" for three years. She has used her pen so that she has earned a handsome support for herself and children. She has been a hard-working woman. Her special line, descriptive writing and articles on new sections of the country, has called for a peculiar order of mind and character. As special correspondent of the New York "World" in that department, she has traveled from the British Provinces to Mexico. One of her noteworthy achievements during 1892 was her superb descriptive article of eight pages in the "World" on Mexico, supplemented by a handsomely illustrated souvenir on that romantic and interesting country. She is a member of several press clubs and literary societies. She was sent to Paris as commissioner from the Stale of Georgia to the exposition. While she has been absorbed in her regular work, she has occasionally contributed to other papers and magazines. Her home is now in New York City.
# Woman of the Century/Marietta Holley

​MARIETTA HOLLEY. HOLLEY, Miss Marietta, humorist, was born in a pleasant country place between the two villages, Adams and Pierrepont -Manor, N. Y. Her country home stands now in that place, where five generations of the Holleys have resided. The Holleys went to Jefferson county from Connecticut. Her maternal grandfather, "Old Squire Taber." as he was called, went to Pierrepont Manor from Rhode Island. Miss Holley commenced to write at an early age, both verses and sketches, which she used to hide jealously from every eye. Her first appearance in print was in a newspaper published in Adams. Her first pen-name was "Jemyma." The editor of that paper encouraged the young aspirant with some timely praise, as did Charles J. Peterson, for whom she wrote later. The editors of the "Christian Union" published what they called "a sweet little poem" from her pen. She wrote also for the "Independent" and several other weekly and monthly journals. Her articles at that time were mostly poems, and were widely copied in this country and in Europe. It was in a dialect sketch written for "Peterson's Magazine" that she first adopted the pen-name "Josiah Allen's Wife. "That name and "jemyma" were a sort of protest against the too musical pen-names of literary aspirants. Those articles attracted the attention of Elijah Bliss, president of the American Publishing Company, of Hartford, Conn. Against the protest of his company, he brought out Miss Holley's work. He urged her to w rite a book for him, which she did, and it was an immediate success, and was republished at once in England and Canada. The name of that book was "My Opinions and Betsy Bobbers" (Hartford, 1872). Her next book, " Samantha at the Centennial," appeared in 1877. "The Wayward Pardner" appeared in 1880. "Miss Richard's Boy." a book of stories not in dialect, was published in 188a. These books were brought out by the American Publishing Company, and the same firm published an illustrated poem of hers called "The Mormon Wife." Miss Holley has also written "Sweet Cicely, or Josiah Allen's Wife as a Politician," (New York, 1885); "Samantha at Saratoga" (Philadelphia, 1887); a book of "Poems" (New York, 1887), and "Samantha Amongst the Brethern," in 1891. Miss Holley's work appeals to all classes of society. Her readers are scattered over the entire world and include men and women of every station and grade. Her books are widely read in Europe.
# Woman of the Century/Marion Babcock Baxter

​MARION BABCOCK BAXTER. BAXTER, Mrs. Marion Babcock, lecturer and author, born on a farm in Litchfield. Hillsdale county, Mich., 12th April, 1850. Her father, Abel E. Babcock, was an Adventist minister in the times when it required courage to preach an unpopular doctrine. Her mother, Mary Balxrock, was a gracious woman, to whose love and tender teaching Mrs. Baxter owes all that she is. Mrs. Baxter tract’s her lineage hack to the Reformation in England. Her early childhood was spent in poverty and self-denial, and she was familiar with work, for which she has ever been thankful. In childhood she had few companions, for the Adventist doctrine was so unpopular and the persecution so pointed that even the children caught the spirit and were accustomed to tease her. Many a time she has climbed a tree to avoid their persecution. In her girlhood she developed a very fine voice and was much in demand for concert singing, but she lost her voice suddenly, and turned to the lecture platform. Her first lecture was given in Jonesville, Mich., where she had lived since she was five years old. Her subject was "The Follies of Fashion," quite appropriate for one whose life had been spent in comparative poverty. On that occasion the opera-house was packed, a band furnished music, and all the world of Jonesville was there. Her first effort was a success in every way, and she eventually became widely known as a lecturer. She was married at the age of twenty-two years to C. K. K. Baxter, a son of Levi Baxter, the head of one of the oldest and most respected families in the state. She is at present the State president of the White ​Rose League. She has been a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union since its organization and has for years been a member of the Congregational church.
# Woman of the Century/Marie Van Zandt

​VAN ZANDT, Miss Marie, opera singer, born in Texas. 8th October, 1861. She is the daughter of the well-known singer, Mrs. Jennie Van Zandt, who was the daughter of Sign or Antonio Blitz. Family reverses compelled Mrs. Van Zandt to use her musical talents in earning a livelihood. Mane early displayed strong musical tendencies, and her voice, even in childhood, was remarkable for range and quality. She was trained by her mother and other teachers, and in 1873 she went with her mother to London, Eng., where she MARIE VAN ZANDT. studied in a convent school There she sang before Adelina Patti, who advised her to train for an operatic career. She was associated with Patti for some time and learned much from that queen of ​the operatic stage. She went to Milan, Italy, and studied with Lamperti. and in 1879 she made her operatic début in Turin as Zerlina, winning a triumph from the first. She sang there in "La Somnambula." In 1880 she appeared in London, in Her Majesty's Opera Company, repeating her success before the cold and unmusical English public. In 1881 she made her debut in Paris, in the Opera Comique, in Mignon, and she sang there during four seasons. Her repertory is extensive Her voice is a pure soprano, of remarkable volume and sweetness, and of great compass. She has sung in the principal music centers of Europe, and she is ranked among the foremost sopranos of the time.