Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Kuang Sun-mou

Mr. K. Y. Kwong

孫謀字星池

(K'uang Sun-mou)

Mr. K. Y. Kwong, a native of Nanhai Hsien, Kuangtung Province, was born in Canton in 1863. He was one of the first groups of young Chinese who was sent to America by the Chinese government to receive modern education. Mr. Kwong prepared for college in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., from 1887 to 1880. He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1880 and joined the 1884 class, but returned to China in 1882, before graduation. From 1882 to 1886 Mr. Kwong was general assistant in the Kaiping Mining Company, Tongshan. From 1886 to 1900 he was assistant engineer on Peking-Muk len Railway. He was assistant engineer in the Pinghsiang-Chuchow Railway from 1901 to 1903. Mr. Kwong rejoined the Peking-Mukden Railway as resident engineer from 1903 to 1905. And was district engineer on the Peking-Kalgan Railway in the fall of 1905-1906. In the fall of 1906 he became engineer-in-chief of the Canton end of the Canton-Hankow Railway. From 1911 to 1916 he was chief engineer of the Peking-Suiyuan Railway and from 1917 to 1919 that of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. During 1920-1921 Mr. Kwong was shop superintendent of the Peking-Hankow and Peking-Suiyuan Railways. From 1921 to 1922 he was engineer-in-chief of the Peking-Suiyuan and consulting engineer of Peking-Hankow Railway. He retired to private life in May 1922. Mr. Kwong was awarded in December 1912 the Fifth Order of Chiaho; in November 1913 the Fourth Order of Wenfu; in March 1915 the Fourth Order of Chiaho; in December 1917 the Third Order of Chiaho; and in February 1921 the Fourth Order of Paokuang Chiaho. He was for some time president of the Association of Chinese and American engineers and also of the Chinese Engineers' Association. He was also a member of the Commission for the location of railroad lines called by the Ministry of Communications. Mr. Kwong's permanent address is: Care of Association of Chinese and American Engineers, Nanchitzu, Peking.