Huie Kin (Chinese: 許芹; pinyin: Xǔ Qín; August 8, 1854 – January 22, 1934) was a Chinese-American Presbyterian pastor.[1]
He was born in Sunning (now Taishan) in southern Guangdong, China. He sailed to San Francisco in 1868 where he was houseboy; his later employer, Mrs. James Gardiner, later helped him in his education. He attended Geneva College in Geneva, Pennsylvania, and Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati.[1] He became a missionary to the Chinese in New York City,[1] and according to his obituary he founded the First Presbyterian Church for the New York Chinese,[1] though a more recent book describes him instead as the "primary Chinese missionary at the Chinese Sunday School" at the Presbyterian Church on University Place.[2] He published Reminiscences, a memoir, in 1932.[1][2]
He married Louise M. van Arnam; the couple met in 1886 and were married in April 1889.[3]
He returned to China shortly before his death, and died in Beijing. He was survived by his wife and nine of their ten children.[1]
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edit- Lui, Mary Ting Yi (March 4, 2007). The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13048-4.