Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Chas. H. Foster, leading editorial writer of the Philadelphia Record, died yesterday of pneumonia, after an illness of less than a week...
...died at his residence, 717 Cambridge street, yesterday at 4.30 P. M., of acute pneumonia, after an illness of two weeks. He was a native of Ningpo, and came to this country in 1879. He was appointed professor of Chinese at Harvard for three years, commencing Sept. 1, 1879. In China he belonged to a family of high rank, was a mandarin of the third grade and held several important government positions at Ningpo. He was a sub-prefect, and by imperial promotion was made prefect. Since he came to Cambridge he has had three pupils, one of whom...