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Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Chronology (centered on SF activity)
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1878
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Born in Pyongyang area Torong Island in the Taedong River
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1882
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Korea Treaty with America
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1894
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Dosan attends Kuse Haktang in Seoul and meets
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Rev. Miller & Dr. Underwood
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Converts to Christianity - Presbyterian
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1896
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First two Korean Ginseng merchants disembark in Honolulu
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1897
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Dosan joins So Chae Pil’s Independence Club in Seoul.
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1899
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Four more Korean (grocers) land in Hawaii.
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1900
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Concerned with teaching people about the practical ways to gain
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power. Church teaching about going to heaven.
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Dosan establishes Chomjin School - first coed school in Korea.
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Country needed a more realistic education system
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1902
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Marries Lee Hye Ryun in Seoul. Sail for America.
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Dosan and his wife have Korean passports #51 & #52.
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Hopes to get educated in Western style and return
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to Korea and reform Korean system
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14-Oct
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Inchon-Tokyo-Honolulu-Seattle-San Francisco
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Dr.Drew had been in Korea. He examined Dosan on Angel Island.
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Dosan went to his home in search of a job. Dr. Drew offered the
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caretaker job at his home. Enrolled in grammar school age 24. An
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article about Dosan appeared in SF newspaper. Over 18 a regulation
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that eliminated him as a student. He tried other schools and finally
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found one that would take him because he was a foreigner and they
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felt regulation did not apply. Dosan wanted to start at elementary
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level and go through to the advanced level of Western education
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and take what he learned back to Korea.
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Two Korean men were fighting in the central part of San Francisco
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and Dosan heard them as he was walking by. Americans were
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watching two traditionally dressed men in disgust. Dosan stopped
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the fight. The men were Ginseng merchants fighting over sales
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territory. Ginseng merchants and students were the first group of
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Koreans in San Francisco. Dosan ended up establishing territories
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and a system for merchants to work together.
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Koreans must portray they deserve their own independence
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Dosan also established cleaner homes and habits for Koreans
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improving the image of the Koreans to the American landlords.
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1903
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12-Jan
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Koreans land in Hawaii to work on sugar plantations.
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23-Sep
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Dosan establishes the Chinmokhoe - Friendship Association.
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Cooperative system of protecting their rights.
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Fall
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Moves to Riverside to seek work and help Koreans working in
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citrus groves. Japanese workers dominating labor until Dosan
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borrows money from a farmer and establishes a labor pool and
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dormitory organizing the work force. Dosan instills good work
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ethics in Korean picker who in turn have highest harvest yields.
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Korean labor is valued above others.
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Koreans beginning to come from Hawaii to San Francisco.
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1904
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Russo-Japanese War - ended in Sept 1095
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1905
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Approx. 7,000 Koreans left Korea and are in America
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5-Apr
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Kongnip Hyophoe - Korean Mutual Assistance Association
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In Riverside borrowed $1500 to start it
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14-Nov
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Kongnip Hyophoe purchases HQ building at 938 Pacific Street in SF
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20-Nov
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Kong Nip Shinbo Started -first Korean newspaper in America. Yi Gang Editor
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Korean group to Yucatan, Mexico to be used as slave labor
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Protectorate Treaty of Portsmouth - Korea under Japanese rule.
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Taft-Katsura Secret Agreement between America and Japan
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8-Oct
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Korean Christians form worship group
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Korean Mission on California Street in SF approved by Methodist
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1906
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Korean language school set up in San Francisco.
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San Francisco Earthquake
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5-Feb
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Japanese government advised all Koreans abroad to place
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themselves under jurisdiction of Japanese consulate
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Kongnip denounces Ulsa Treaty to Korean government
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18-Apr
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Kongnip Hyophoe moves to Oakland after fire from earthquake
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1907
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20-Jan
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Back to Korea
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Daesung School; writes National Anthem. Yun Chi Ho principal of
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school and song is sung everyday. Some people thought Yun
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wrote it.
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Hague Peace Conference
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1-Aug
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Korean National Army disbanded by Japanese - KNA meeting
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9-Oct
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Yi Chae Myung of Kongnip Hyophoe leaves SF for Korea after
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vowing to kill pro Japanese Korean politicians. Stabs Yi Wan
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Yong in 1909. Executed Sept 10 1910.
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1908
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22-Mar
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Durham White Stevens confronted at Fairmont Hotel
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23-Mar
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Durham White Stevens assassinated by Chun Myung Woon and
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Chang In Hwan.
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25-Mar
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Stevens dies. Japanese consulate trying to prosecute Koreans.
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June
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Kongnip Hyophoe moves back to SF
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23-Oct
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Hanin Hapsong Hyophoe of Hawaii and Kongnip Hyophoe meet in SF
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28-Nov
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Resolution to unite:
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1. All Koreans in America unite under one organization to resist
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Japanese atrocities in Korea.
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