Birth: 1887, China
Death: 1968
CLASS OF 1909 USMA
FIRST ASIAN GRADUATE
CHINESE AT WEST POINT.; Special Act of Congress Admits Four Foreigners to Academy.
WEST POINT, June 15. -- For the first time in the history of the Military Academy representatives of the Chinese Empire were admitted to-day as cadets in the institution. The two young Chinamen, Ting Chia Chen and Ying-Hsing Wen, with Luis Bagran of Honduras and F. Tomas Plaza of Ecuador, will receive instructions with the class of 145 candidates who were received as cadets today.
New York Times
June 16, 1905