Leonard Bacon
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Reverend Leonard Bacon was an American Congregational preacher and writer. He held the pulpit of the First Church New Haven and was later professor of church history and polity at Yale College.
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Ōyama Sutematsu
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Princess Ōyama Sutematsu was a Japanese socialite in the Meiji era, and the first Japanese woman to receive a college degree. She was born into a traditional samurai household which supported the Toku
Leonard Bacon
…on his experiences, at least one of which was published in the New York Times. As a part of the 1872 Iwakura Mission Bacon was given guardianship of Yamakawa Sutematsu, a Japanese girl sent to the United States to be educated. She became particularly close with the youngest daughter in the household, Alice Mabel Bacon…
Marchioness Ōyama Sutematsu in 1903
Battered Tsuruga Castle, Aizu, Fukushima (1868).
Kiyotaka Kuroda, who arranged to send the girls to study in America
Nagai Shige (age 10), Ueda Tei (14), Yoshimasu Ryo (14), Tsuda Ume (6) and Yamakawa Sutematsu (11), in Chicago, their first time wearing Western clothes.