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Francis Stafford : ウィキペディア英語版 | Francis Stafford
Francis E. Stafford (born February 3, 1884) moved to Shanghai in 1909 where he worked for Commercial Press for six years. Stafford is best known for his photography of the Chinese Revolution (1911), also known as the Xinhai Revolution, in which the last dynasty was overthrown. He also took hundreds of important images of Chinese social life during the period from 1909 to 1915.
==Background==
Francis Eugene (Frank) Stafford spent his early years in Boulder, Colorado, where his father served as City Clerk. At age 17, in 1901 Francis moved to Mountain View, California where he obtained a job at the Pacific Press Publishing Association. He was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Jessen on November 1905, and their son, Clarence Stafford was born on October 1906. While working he became an expert in photo engraving and learned photography. This helped him find a job at in Shanghai, under a year's contract with the Commercial Press, to install a photoengraving plant, and teach their workman to run it, where he moved with his family in 1909. Frank Stafford was among the first Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to acquire a knowledge of the Shanghai dialect. In 1911 he became director of the Kiangsu Church Mission.〔Cottrell, Roy F. “Life Sketch of Elder F. E. Stafford” The China Division Reporter, 1938 - Vol. 08 No. 04, Pg6.〕 Miss Frances Stafford their daughter was born in 1912. In 1915, due to health problems, he returned to the United States, living in Honolulu, HI most of his remaining life. Francis Stafford died on February 1, 1938 and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale CA.
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