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WHO'S WHO IN CHINA
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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.