WILLIAMS, SAMUEL WELLS
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(1812-1884), went to China as a printer to the American Mission in 1833. He was U.S. Secretary of Legation and interpreter in China from 1855 to 1876, and Charge d' Affaires nine times. He wrote "The Middle Kingdom", a book on China, and became professor of Chinese at Yale College.
By John Franklin Jameson
