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Roberts, James Hudson was born on June 11, 1851 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of William Walker and Abigail Wells (Willard) Roberts.
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Excerpt from A Flight for Life: And an Inside View of Mongolia The seizing of several ports by the Powers in the spring of 1898, and especially the taking of Kiao Chou by the Germans, greatly increased the hostil ity to foreigners, which had long existed. Two Jesuit missionaries, who had been expelled from Germany for some misdeeds, went, perhaps With sincere intentions, to the district of Ts'ao Chou Fu, in the southwest corner of the province of Shan tung. That region long had been noted for the fierceness of its people, and these missionaries lost their lives. The German government might have Ignored the case, but chose instead to make it the pretext for taking a valuable port. Since then it has asserted that, even, Shansi is a part of its hin terland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Roberts, James Hudson was born on June 11, 1851 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of William Walker and Abigail Wells (Willard) Roberts.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1873, Bachelor of Divinity, 1876. Post-graduate studies Andover and Hartford Theological seminars and Boston University Medical School.
Ordained Congleton ministry, September 12, 1877. Missionary American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Peking, China, 1877-1880, Kalgan, China, 1880-1906. Pastor Southbury, Connecticut, October, 1907-September, 1908, West Suffield, Connecticut, 1908-1909, Bolton, Connecticut, 1909-1910, Hockanum, Connecticut, April 2, since 1911.
Author: A Flight for Life, and An Inside View of Mongolia, 1903.
Address: 4 High Saint, Hockanum, Connecticut.
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Married Grace Lilla Howe, of Marlboro, Massachusetts, September 19, 1877.