Charles Lanman
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Charles Lanman was an American author, government official, artist, librarian, and explorer.
Engraving of Charles Lanman by J. K. Campbell, Sr. for Munsell & Co., New York, in the 1890 History of Monroe County, Michigan by Talcott E. Wing
The Angler, a portrait of Charles Lanman by William James Hubard
Tsuda Umeko
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Tsuda Umeko was a Japanese educator who founded Tsuda University. She was the daughter of Tsuda Sen, an agricultural scientist, and at the age of 7, she became Japan's first female exchange student, t
Charles Lanman
…to the Japanese legation, and assistant assessor for the District of Columbia. Lanman married Adeline Dodge in 1849; they had no children. They raised Tsuda Ume (December 31, 1864 – August 16, 1929) from March 1872 to 1882. Ume had been sent by the Japanese government as part of the Iwakura Mission; one of its…
Tsuda Ume at the age of seven in 1871
First female study-abroad students from Japan (left to right), Nagai Shige (age 10), Ueda Tei (14), Yoshimasu Ryo (14), Tsuda Ume (6) and Yamakawa Sutematsu (11).
Tsuda Ume (1864–1929) at Bryn Mawr College graduation
Friends meet again: Tsuda Umeko, Alice Mabel Bacon, Uryū Shigeko, Ōyama Sutematsu (from left to right)