Background
Mr. Tachuen S. K. Loh was born January 1885 in Tsingpoo near Shanghai.
Mr. Tachuen S. K. Loh was born January 1885 in Tsingpoo near Shanghai.
Mr. Tachuen S. K. Loh received his early education in Nanyang College and after a brief career as a school teacher and a newspaper editor both in Shanghai and Peking he went in 1911 to the United States as a government student and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1914.
In January 1915 Mr. Tachuen S. K. Loh joined the Ministry of Justice as a junior clerk in the Civil Department. He soon was appointed a member of the Judicial Reform Bureau. In August 1916 he was jointly appointed by the Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs as Magistrate of the Amoy Mixed Court which office he held for a year and a half when he was transferred to Shanghai as Chief Justice of the Shanghai District Court.
While magistrate of the Amoy Mixed Court he made many judicial reforms and was much admired by both Chinese and Foreign communities. Being a native of Kiangsu his appointment as Chief of Justice of the Shanghai Court was rather an exception and consequently he was transferred to Kiangsu.
In 1918 and 1919 he concurrently held the offices of assistant sub-director of the Repatriation bureau of German and Austrian subjects and also Chief of the Executive Department of the Enemy Property Bureau. In 1920 Mr. Loh was made Chief Secretary to Gen. Ho Feng-Lin Military Governor for Sunkiang and Shanghai.
For some time in 1922 Mr. Loh was also director of the Telegraph Material Supply Depaitment, Shanghai and Advisor to the Ministry of Communications.
Aside from his official capacities Judge Loh was vice-president of the American Returned Students’ Club, Shanghai, a member of the Board of Trustees of Futa'n University and a member of the Chinese and Foreign Famine Relief Committee.