Edward Warren Clark
Edward Warren Clark was born in 1849 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was one of the oyatoi gaikokujin, foreign experts who were sent to Japan by the Japanese government to … Read More
Oyatoi
David Murray
David Murray was born in Bovina, New York on October 15, 1830. He graduated from Union College in 1852. After serving as the principal of The Albany Academy in New … Read More
Martin N. Wyckoff
Martin N. Wyckoff (1850-1911) was born in Middlebush, New Jersey and went to Rutgers Grammar School and later graduated from Rutgers College in 1872. Immediately after graduating, Wyckoff traveled to … Read More
Robert H. Pruyn
Robert H. Pruyn (1815-1882) was born in Albany, New York to a very esteemed Dutch family. He was a graduate of the class of 1833 with his bachelor’s degree … Read More
William Elliot Griffis
William Elliot Griffis was born in 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After serving in the Civil War, Griffis attended Rutgers in 1865. There, in the subjects of English and Latin, he … Read More