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Re: Lewis Charles Arlington
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 30 April 14 17:47 BST (UK) »
He spent most of his life in China,that's a problem. He probably married there and perhaps his son Arthur was also born there.
The question then is, what nationality would Arthur have had. Did he ever apply for a passport for his son or wife?

"Are you in contact with the relatives who run this site? https://sites.google.com/site/miramarlb/"
I cant find any form of communication with the writer of it Jorose.




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Re: Lewis Charles Arlington
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 01 May 14 00:35 BST (UK) »
Figured they might be cousins you know.   I can't find any trace of Arthur in the US but there are some good hints in the letters:

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My cousin Mrs. Anna Cushing says she wrote to you and was waiting for a reply
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Don't forget to write to my cousin in Frisco.  No. 1015 Van Ness Ave.  Mrs. Cushing, Anna.

also various mentions of "Uncle Charlie" (U.C.), who seems to have been in the US - this from Sep 1919:
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Have you heard from U.C. recently?  He has had a hard time.  Katie blood-poised and nearly dead and himself dangerously wounded in both eyes by gas explosion etc!  Herbert – for joy riding in other people’s motors and busting it up, he has been sent to a Reformatory.  As place I think where he should have been years ago.
(of course he might not have been an actual relative but a close family friend or something)

Is this the cousin Anna Cushing? (b. Strasbourg):
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MH49-W9N
http://www.ellisisland.org
shows her coming into the US in 1914 "Ama Cushing" - gives same address as in the letters.  Contact address in Paris.
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Re: Lewis Charles Arlington
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 01 May 14 11:37 BST (UK) »
I think Arthur may have been at MIT - there's a mention in the letters of "Tech" (Technique, the MIT yearbook), and Allen Addicks (Allen Drew Addicks was at MIT around this time)

http://technique.mit.edu/archive/
In 1920 "Tsu-Kuang Lin" is listed as a student - home address "Hanchow"

Here's the WWI draft card - name Arthur addedd, L.C. Arlington is on there as is "Y.W. Lin" (mother?)
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K6CT-WNV
He was at that point a student at the University of  Virginia.
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Re: Lewis Charles Arlington
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 01 May 14 14:31 BST (UK) »
On the San Francisco Chinese applications for admission, there is Tsu Kuang Lin who arrived and was admitted on 12 Dec. 1916.  His residence was Charlottesville, Virginia.

There is an Arthur Tsu-Kuang Lin on the Australia electoral rolls from 1980 in Toorak, Higgins, Victoria.


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Re: Lewis Charles Arlington
« Reply #13 on: Friday 02 May 14 00:40 BST (UK) »
Hmm.  Getting really quite suspicious here now about the name "Arlington".  I'm noting a few things:

1) The closest marriage I can find for Anna is this one, in 1883 - note she is "Kroffig"
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-29894-8490-89?cc=1804002
Note witness "Charles Apelnstall"
If this is her then she was actually b. Dec 1852 according to the 1900 census:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M9GH-QYK

2) There is this family "Aplustrell" in 1860, with an infant son son "Louis C"
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDK2-7V3
Apalestel in 1870:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNX9-7SZ
I can't find them in 1880 - I can later find at least son Ernest, the remarriage of the father, but no trace of "Louis C".

http://etat-civil.bas-rhin.fr
Now, here we can search the births for Strasbourg.
4 Dec 1852 - Anna Kroffig
she was the daughter of Jean Joseph Kroffig and Salome Amelie Aplustill.

4 July 1848 - marriage of Jean Joseph Kroffig to Sophie (mistake?) Amelie Aplustill.  Hard to read but shows that she was b. 3 Sep 1816, father  (?name) d. 27 August 1838, mother Marguerite Salome Tr????r d. 26 May 1832 (all events in Strasbourg()

15 Feb 1831 - birth of Charles Aplustill to Jean Aplustill aged 40 and Margeurite Salome Tranner
3 Sep 1816 birth of Salome Amelie - to Jean Aplustill aged 26 and Marguerite Salome Tranner

So if "Lewis Charles Arlington" was actually "Louis Charles Aplustill", he was cousins with Anna Cushing nee Kroffig as his father Charles and her mother Salome Amelie were siblings.

As to "Uncle Charlie", there was a man going by the name "Charles Martin Applestill" who appears to have been born slightly after the 1870 census sometime.  In 1910 father Charles b. France is living with him:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MV2V-F8V

Note wife "Katy" and son "Herbert" - as mentioned in the letters.

If this is the right family, it appears the first wife of Charles (Louis C. Aplustill's mother) died probably mid 1870s - that might have had something to do with his going to sea/changing his name.
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Re: Lewis Charles Arlington
« Reply #14 on: Friday 02 May 14 00:57 BST (UK) »
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://64.62.200.70/PERIODICAL/PDF/SaturdayRev-1932jan30/12-13/  This review of L.C. Arlington's book quotes him as saying his father was of English & Scotch parentage and born in Dolores, Spain and his mother was part French & part Irish and born in Strassburg in Alsace-Lorraine.  It says his family came west during the Gold Rush, and he went to China in the latter part of 1879. 

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Re: Lewis Charles Arlington
« Reply #15 on: Friday 02 May 14 01:28 BST (UK) »
Can't the Arlington's just keep it simple....? ::)

Jorose, pfeww, quite a job!

This is getting tricky Shellyesq. Siblings of his father, born in Spain, might be hard to find.

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Re: Lewis Charles Arlington
« Reply #16 on: Friday 02 May 14 08:17 BST (UK) »
Photo of Charles M Applestill http://www.oocities.org/icsodotorg/new_page_26.htm

and announcement of the death of his father in 1910 http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=IVP19100507.2.49.3
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Re: Lewis Charles Arlington
« Reply #17 on: Friday 02 May 14 08:48 BST (UK) »
Re that 1917 passport application, there is an affidavit there from his half brother Charles Martin Applestill
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