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Dr. Clinton Nevius Laird or better known as Clinton N. Laird was Professor of Chemistry and Vice Provost at Lingnan University in Canton (Guangzhou). He had a long tenure at Lingnan from 1905 to 1942.
In December 1941, Clinton N. Laird and his wife, Mary were present in Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion. They were interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.
Erwin Ferdinand Koch appears in the 1938 to 1940 Jurors List. He is listed as an attendant and in 1940 as an attorney for Standard Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd.. In 1954, he was the retired assistant to the Chairman of the Board of the Company. After WWII, he also served as Vice-President of The Philippine American Chamber of Commerce.
E. F. Koch was present in Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion. He was interned at Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942. He died in 1974.
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1. Jurors List
Father Knotek belonged to the Maryknoll Mission and was ordained on 22 June 1941. He was assigned to Kweilin (Guilin), China. He and his group of newly ordained priests had arrived in Hong Kong just before the Japanese invasion and became trapped in the city and not able to proceed to their inland missions.
Arthur Russell Knipp was a Professor of Physics at Lingnan University, Canton (Guangzhou), China from 1910 to 1951. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned at Stanley Camp with his wife and daughter. They were repatriated to the United States in 1942.
Obituary Memorial: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GM33-17C/arthur-russell-knipp-1887-1974
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Marion Bailey King was the secretary of Dragon Motor Co., Ltd.. Prior to the fall of Hong Kong, he had been associated with the company since 1923. He was interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942.
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1. Jury Lists
George B. King worked for British American Tobacco Co., in Shanghai, China. In the early 1940s, he had been associated with the company for over 20 years. He was interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated to the United States in 1942.
In May 1944, he joined the Tobacco Section of the Office of Price Administration to assist in price control of cigarette leaf tobacco.
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1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/8626-king-george-b/
2. The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury
In 1935 prior to coming to Hong Kong, Mose Eggleston Kelley wrote a paper on a study made of the treatment of some Arizona molybdenite ores which is held by the University of Arizona. See: https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/553233/AZU_TD_BOX331_E9791_1935_23.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
In the 1941 Jurors List, he worked as a mining engineer for Hong Kong Mines Ltd..
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Joel Russell Jones appears in the Jurors List from 1930 onwards and gave his occupation as manager of Connell Bros Co., an import and export firm. He had been married to Helena Apolonia Menchinsky Jones (née Bogusz) and had a son. Both his wife and son were not present in Hong Kong prior to the Japanese invasion.
Sarah Catherine Johnston better known as Sarah C. Johnston was an American missionary serving the Assemblies of God Church in South China in the Canton (Guangzhou) and Hong Kong areas.
She was present in Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion and interned at Stanley Camp. She was repatriated to the United States in 1942.