1. Arthur Henderson Smith (1845-1932), born in Connecticut and longtime missionary to China, who wrote a number of books describing the Chinese sometimes in a negative way thus controversial.
2. Arthur DeFrance Smith (1869-?) born in Pennsylvania, a cousin of my great-grandmother, a son of her uncle Edmund Smith (1841-1912).
Questions:
1. Were these two Arthur Smiths somehow related to one another? I really wouldn't know.
2. Did Arthur Smith No. 2 ever travel to China? The question is raised because there is the photo in great-grandmother's collection of an unidentified man wearing a Chinaman suit. Well, the caption says Ida Mey but that doesn't quite make sense, almost as if the photo has been misidentified. And then by genealogy research we learn that Ida May was the name of the wife of Arthur No. 2. Now, what would that Arthur Smith No. 2 be doing in Chinaman garments? I really wouldn't know. I noticed this odd photo puzzle but I would not be able to solve it without more information from family members who might know something about that.
