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By chance I found the following link according to which 타운션 (Walter Davis Townsend?) and 데슬나 seem to be two people. <br>http://contents.booktopia.com/book_down/bookImg/Preview/0304/x/03042484/03042484.xml<br><br>Good luck!<br><br><div><font style="" color="#3366ff">Barbara Wall<br>PhD Candidate Ruhr-University Bochum<br></font></div><div> </div><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:54:01 -0400<br>> From: epa@sas.upenn.edu<br>> To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>> Subject: [KS] Great Chosŏn Ramie Spinning, Ltd. (大朝鮮 苧麻 製絲 會社)<br>> <br>> Dear all,<br>> <br>> I am trying to identify two <br>> Westerners mentioned in June 12, <br>> 1897 issue of /The Independent/ (독 <br>> 립신문) as follows:<br>> <br>> 타운션 데슬나(American)<br>> 존슨(British)<br>> <br>> Reporting on the founding of Great <br>> Chosŏn Ramie Spinning Company (大朝 <br>> 鮮 苧麻 製絲會社), Korea's arguably <br>> first joint stock venture, the <br>> article mentions the two as '쥬무관 <br>> '(=주무관, "main duty officers"). I <br>> would at least like to know their <br>> full names in English. For your <br>> information, other individuals <br>> mentioned in the article are (I am <br>> using contemporary Korean orthography):<br>> <br>> 안경수 회장, 주무관<br>> 이채연 부회장<br>> 이근배 장무관, 주무관<br>> 윤규섭 장무관<br>> 방한덕 서기관<br>> 윤효정 서기관<br>> 우항선 서기관<br>> Philip Jaisohn 주무관<br>> <br>> Since all of the above are well <br>> known individuals to anyone studying <br>> political history of the period, I <br>> would like to think that both 타운션 <br>> 데슬나 and 존슨 too are traceable.<br>> <br>> Thank you, in advance, for your help!<br>> <br>> Sincerely,<br>> <br>> Gene<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Eugene Y. Park<br>> Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History<br>> Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies<br>> University of Pennsylvania<br>> <br></div> </div></body>
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