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Mr. Chang Cha was born at Nantungchow, Kiangsu, in 1848. He was educated in the old Chinese school. He took a great interest in business when the value of commerce to the nation was not so well appreciatied as at the present time. He devoted his early life to business and his leisure to scholastic work. At the age of thirty, he served under General Wu Chang-ching in the capacity of secretary. Upon General Wu's recommendation, he was promoted by the Peking government to the rank of Magistrate, and was ordered to proceed to Kiangsi Province as a candidate. In Kiangsi he held two offices. He was appointed first as Magistrate for Yi-Chun and later as magistrate for Kwei-Chi. When his brother Mr. Chang Chien organized the present Dah San cotton mill, he was requested to come back to assist in this important undertaking. Since then he has been devoting his whole energy to the development of Nantungchow industrially as well as educationally. When Revolution broke out in 1911 the civil and military