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his preparations and in addition persuaded Miss Elizabeth Bartlett of East Windsor, Conn., to accompany him as his wife. The wedding took place on October 10, and the young couple took passage on the sailing ship Morrison for their honeymoon, which turned out to be a voyage of one hundred and twenty-five days from New York via the Cape of Good Hope to Macao! (The grandson of Dr. Samuel Robbins Brown, also of the same name, was until this spring the manager of the National City Bank in Peking.)
Upon the Morrison School's removal from Macao to Hong Kong in 1842, to a site on Morrison Hill, the number of boys in the dormitory had increased to twenty-four. During a raid by pirates (further evidence of the role which pirates took in the exploitation of Hong Kong even in its earliest days) a few years later, Mr. Brown was wounded by a spear thrust. In imminent danger of death, he was greatly assisted by the nerve and presence of mind of one of his earliest students, a boy by the name of Yung Wing, afterwards Dr. Yung Wing of Yale, L.L.D. (Brief reference to Dr. Yung Wing's distinguished career was made in the S.C.M. Post on Monday last, concerning the death of his son, Mr. Morrison Brown Yung in Peking, formerly a coal merchant here. It is evident that Yung Wing named his son after his old teacher and school).
Yung Wing was one of the three who, upon Mr. Brown's return to the United States in 1847, decided to accompany his teacher and take up studies in the West. The other boys were Wong Shing and Wong Foon, afterwards Dr. Wong Foon of the University of Edinburgh, whose association with the London Mission Hospital in Hong Kong will be long remembered. For two years the lads studied in America. While it was understood that they were to return to China at the end of 1849, on the close of their two-year course at Monson Academy, the Hong Kong friends' appropriation being only sought for that period of study, two of them, Yung Wing and Wong Foon, decided to continue their education. Wong Shing had had to return to China in 1848 because of ill-health.
The two students' decision to further their studies abroad was conveyed to their parents, which brought forth a reply that support would be afforded them from China, provided they were willing to enter the University of Edinburgh. It was agreed in addition that this support from Hong Kong would be continued through a professional course. Wong Foon decided to accept the offer, and Yung Wing elected to pursue his education at Yale on his own. It is worthy of note that Yung Wing was later instrumental in attracting to America several more Chinese students, including Sir Shouson Chow, Mr. Tang Shao-yi, and others who hold distinguished positions in China.
In the summer of 1850, Yung Wing and Wong Foon graduated from Monson Academy, and the latter proceeded to Scotland. Entering the University of Edinburgh, he took up medical studies, and upon the completion of a seven years' course, was graduated third in his class. Yung Wing, by dint of his own efforts and help from a "Ladies Association" in Savannah, Georgia, entered Yale and completed his A.B. course with the class of 1854.
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