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In December 1941, the residents were moved to the Stanley Internment Camp and the property occupied by the Japanese. After the war, Stanley became once again a mission center, and a refuge after China expelled missionaries in 1949. [2] The Stanley House was declared “a cultural asset” by the Hong Kong government in the 1990s. [2]
In 1936, Bishop Walsh left China to return to the United States as head of Maryknoll. During his ten-year term he oversaw Maryknoll's first missions to Latin America and Africa . [ 5 ] In November to December 1940, he and Father James M. Drought, his assistant went to Japan to take part in the diplomatic negotiation between US and Japan. [ 6 ]
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When Ford reported to the Maryknoll seminary in Ossining, New York, on 14 September 1912, he became the first student of the fledgling Maryknoll Society. [1] He was the first person to matriculate in this institution. [2] He was ordained on December 5, 1917, and became one of the first four American Catholic priests to arrive in China in 1918. [3]
Stanley House may refer to: Canada. Camp Ekon, formerly known as Stanley House, in Ontario, Canada. Denmark. Stanley House, Copenhagen; Hong Kong. Stanley House aka. Maryknoll House (Stanley) United Kingdom. Stanley House, Castletown, Isle of Man, one of Isle of Man's Registered Buildings; Stanley House, Chelsea, London; Stanley House Hotel ...
Ingersoll was a popularizer of the use of radium on hands and indices with their "Radiolite" series, seen in this 1917 ad. In 1896 Ingersoll introduced a watch called the Yankee, setting its price at $1. This made it the cheapest watch available at the time, and the first watch to be priced at one dollar; the "dollar watch" was born.
Father Thomas F. Price, co-founder of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, center, was pictured in a 1918 photo in China. Price made a countrywide tour of America to gain support for the new endeavor. By 1918, three young priests (James Edward Walsh, Francis Xavier Ford, and Bernard F. Meyer) were ready for the foreign missions in China. On ...
The term China Hand originally referred to 19th-century merchants in the treaty ports of China, but came to be used for anyone with expert knowledge of the language, culture, and people of China. In 1940s America, the term China Hands came to refer to a group of American diplomats, journalists, and soldiers who were known for their knowledge of ...