Kin Ta Ting

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1890 CEM Reunion, LaFargue Collection

 

Pinyin & Chinese characters Jin Dating  金大廷
Variant Spellings & Other Names Kin Ta Chang

Other Chinese Names 金巨卿
Detachment 4
LaFargue No. 111
Date of Birth 1863
Place of Birth Baoshan County, Jiangsu Province

Age at Departure for U.S. 13 (Lunar Calendar)
Date of Death c. 1900. "Killed by mishap in Tientsin during the Boxer trouble."1
Place of Death Tianjin

Place(s) of residence in U.S. 1) North Hadley, MA;
2) Exeter, NH 2

American Host Family/ies 1) Miss M. E. Lamson;
2) Rev. Jacob Chapman 2

School(s), with dates Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH2

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First Assignment in China Assigned to Beiyang Medical School.
Later Positions

1894  During the Sino-Japanese War, Kin was Chief Medical Officer in charge of the Military Hospital and Ambulance Corps attached to the Imperial Army at the Front, Manchuria; he also held the official rank of "unattached expectant district magistrate"3

1898 Listed as "T.T. Kin - Medical Officer", Imperial Railways of North China, Locomotive Dept. & Tongshan Workshops.4 

Employment sector(s) Medicine and Military Service
Final rank, if in gov't service

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Notes and Sources 1. Yung Shang Him (10/1939), 255; Yung Shang Him (1939), 31.

2. Source: online article, “Out of the Past: East Meets Exeter” by Julie Quinn at www.exeter.edu/fall_01/past.html, p. 1 (website of Phillips Exeter Academy).

3.  North China Herald, 1896.1.17, pp. 97f. The news report reprinted a letter from Kin to Ritter von Haas--Consul-General for Austro-Hungary in Shanghai and President of the Shanghai Chinese Red Cross Society--in which the author thanked the Society for its medical supplies to the Chinese troops at the front who were meeting the Japanese assault in November 1894.  Kin expressed particular gratitude to Mrs. N.P. Andersen (a daughter of former CEM interpreter, Chan Laisun 曾来顺), who had spearheaded the formation of the Society, as well as to Tong Kidson, i.e. Tong Wing Chun (Tang Rongjun 唐荣俊 IV, 106), who was responsible for much of the fundraising involved.

4.  Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan...for 1898, pg. no. unavailable. Info provided by Peter Crush of Hong Kong.