Description: Yam Tong Hoh and Daisy Law Hoh papers

Yam Tong Hoh and Daisy Law Hoh papers

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Main Authors:	Hoh, Daisy Law (Creator), Hoh, Yam Tong (Creator)
Collection:	Yam Tong Hoh and Daisy Law Hoh Papers
Collection Number:	MSS146
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	Chinese
Subjects:	Berkeley Chinese Community Church. China > History > 1937-1945 > Sources. Chinese Christian Church and Center (Philadelphia, Pa.). Christian education > China. Hong Kong True Light Foundation. World War, 1939-1945 > War work > United States.

Physical Description:	11.2 Linear feet 28 boxes
Summary:	For a biographical sketch of the Reverend Yam Tong Hoh, see MSS 126. Daisy Law was born in Canton to a devout Chinese Christian family in 1900. She attended college the United States and received the Ed.B. degree from UCLA in 1924. After serving s principal for a time at the True Light Elementary School in Canton, she returned to the US and received MA degrees from Stanford University in 1929 and Columbia University Teacher's College in 1933. She married Yam Tong Hoh in 1927 in New York. The couple returned to China; Yam Tong Hoh became principal of the True Light Middle School in Canton, while Daisy Law Hoh headed the school's English Department. Their son, George Lok Kwong Hoh, was born during this time, in 1935. During World War II, the school evacuated to Hong Kong. Yam Tong Hoh remained at the school while Diasy Law Hoh and their son fled to California, where Daisy Hoh gave many speeches to raise money for Chinese relief efforts. Yam Tong Hoh joined his wife and son in the United States in 1945. Later that year, Daisy Law Hoh died of cancer. The collection contains many materials similar to those found in MSS 126, but also documents Daisy Law Hoh's work for China relief during World War II, her wartime correspondence with her husband, and her illness and death. There is also much material documenting the second half of Yam Tong Hoh's life which he spent as a minister in California and Philadelphia, including correspondence, church records and other religious materials, flyers and programs of events, notes, speeches and sermons, and newspaper clippings.

Physical Description:

11.2 Linear feet 28 boxes

Summary:

For a biographical sketch of the Reverend Yam Tong Hoh, see MSS 126. Daisy Law was born in Canton to a devout Chinese Christian family in 1900. She attended college the United States and received the Ed.B. degree from UCLA in 1924. After serving s principal for a time at the True Light Elementary School in Canton, she returned to the US and received MA degrees from Stanford University in 1929 and Columbia University Teacher's College in 1933. She married Yam Tong Hoh in 1927 in New York. The couple returned to China; Yam Tong Hoh became principal of the True Light Middle School in Canton, while Daisy Law Hoh headed the school's English Department. Their son, George Lok Kwong Hoh, was born during this time, in 1935. During World War II, the school evacuated to Hong Kong. Yam Tong Hoh remained at the school while Diasy Law Hoh and their son fled to California, where Daisy Hoh gave many speeches to raise money for Chinese relief efforts. Yam Tong Hoh joined his wife and son in the United States in 1945. Later that year, Daisy Law Hoh died of cancer. The collection contains many materials similar to those found in MSS 126, but also documents Daisy Law Hoh's work for China relief during World War II, her wartime correspondence with her husband, and her illness and death. There is also much material documenting the second half of Yam Tong Hoh's life which he spent as a minister in California and Philadelphia, including correspondence, church records and other religious materials, flyers and programs of events, notes, speeches and sermons, and newspaper clippings.

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