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Facts and Events
| Name |
Raymond Edward Leo Krumm |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
27 May 1873 |
Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio |
| Occupation[5] |
1930 |
a mechanic at B??? works (looks like Boli) could this be "boiler works" |
| Occupation[6] |
1930 |
a mechanic at wholesale chain works |
| Residence[7][16] |
3 Apr 1930 |
50 Whittier Street, Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio |
| Death[2][13] |
14 Sep 1948 |
Kane, McKean Co., Pennsylvania |
| Burial[3][14] |
20 Sep 1948 |
Green Lawn cemetery, Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio |
| Other[8][17] |
1948 |
Event-Misc |
| Other[9][18] |
16 Sep 1948 |
Columbus, Franklin Co., OhioObituary |
| Other[10] |
17 Sep 1948 |
Cremation |
| Other[11][19] |
9 Apr 2004 |
KoreaBio-hist |
| Other[12][20] |
18 Apr 2004 |
KoreaBio-hist |
| Other[4][15] |
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Retirement |
| Reference Number |
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16122 |
| Reference Number |
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620 |
References
- ↑ United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623)
born May 1873. - ↑ Carolyn Krumm Naas. Krumm family history book. (self published, Dayton, Ohio, 1995).
- ↑ Green Lawn Cemetery interment cards, ca. 1820-1981, Roll: 20 microfilmreels, copies of interment cards. (General Microfilm Corporation, under contract with the Franklin CountyGenealogical Society, Columbus, Ohio, November, 1981).
- ↑ Schoedinger Funeral Home burial cards. Schoedinger burial cards. (State Street, Columbus, Franklin Co., OH).
- ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626).
- ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626).
- ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626)
Roll: T626_1795; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 20; Image: 0589;ancestry image: 11.
- ↑ Schoedinger Funeral Home burial cards. Schoedinger burial cards. (State Street, Columbus, Franklin Co., OH).
- ↑ The Columbus Dispatch, Location: Columbus, Ohio
page 4A.
- ↑ Schoedinger Funeral Home burial cards. Schoedinger burial cards. (State Street, Columbus, Franklin Co., OH).
- ↑ Robert Neff. The Korean Times. (Kim JC)
published online Apr. 9, 2004; permission to reprint given by publisher.
- ↑ Robert Neff. The Korean Times. (Kim JC)
published online Apr.16, 2004; permission to reprint given by publisher.
- ↑ acute Myocartitis
- ↑ Lot 135 &137 in section S by Adam Luckhaupt (grandson to owner) cremains
- ↑ Civil Engineer
- ↑ listed as a lodger at the home of Henry and Ada Sells who own the homeworth $6,000
- ↑ Never married
- ↑ "KRUMM-- Raymond E. L., suddenly Tuesday in Kane, Pennsylvania. Survivedby brother, Howard L., 2 sisters, Miss Helen and Miss Ruby Krumm all ofColumbus. Services will be held at 10:30 AM Friday, Schoedinger'sChapel followed by cremation. Friends may call after 7 PM Thursday.Omission of flowers is requested."
- ↑ Love's Rejection
The following is part one of Raymond Krumm story. . ED.
Many westerners have come to Korea and fallen in love with the peopleand the beauty of the land. They have left behind schools, hospitals andchurches as their legacies, and they are well remembered, even honored,for their accomplishments and gifts. However, there was one westernerthat also left a legacy for Korea, not in Korea but in the UnitedStates, and his name has been all but forgotten _ he was Raymond Krumm.
Raymond Krumm came to Korea, along with his older half-brother, William,in late 1896 from Columbus, Ohio. They had heard tales of great wealthand adventure that could be had in the Hermit Kingdom from their ownneighbors _ David Deshler, a businessman in Korea; and from HoraceAllen, the American minister to Korea. The Krumm family was one of thewealthier families in the city and owned a large iron-works that theboys could have worked in, but like many American young men, they wantedto get away from the confines of home and seek adventure overseas. Therewas a need for engineers in Korea. Several Americans had managed tosecure a large gold mining concession along with a railroad andstreetcar concession. William had graduated with an engineering degreeand Raymond was in the process of doing so _ they were confident thatthey would be able to make their fortunes in Korea.
William was slightly older than Raymond and more level headed and easyto get along with. He was hired by the American Oriental Mining Companyand did a lot of work in the Wonsan area surveying, but he alsomaintained quarters in the Chemulpo area.
Raymond was not the easiest person to get along with _ he was hotheaded,quarrelsome, and extremely vindictive. He was also big and strong fromworking as an engineer and quick to use brute force when provoked. Likemost of the young unmarried men (who were not missionaries) he spent hisfree days hunting and engaged in friendly sports matches; at night hegambled and drank heavily _ and often visited the Japanese houses ofill-repute. The Collbran and Bostwick Company [C&B], the companyresponsible for the Seoul-Chemulpo Railroad [SCCR] hired Raymond. Heassisted their chief engineer, Carley, with surveying and constructionof the track. The work was difficult and dangerous; there were oftenaccidents and problems between the Korean laborers and some of theforeign staff.
After only a year and a half with the C&B, Raymond was dismissed (helater claimed that he quit) along with Carley, possibly because of thenumber of accidents that had occurred, and the slow progress of therailroad. There were hard feelings with this release and Raymond vowedto get even with the company.
Horace Allen, upon David Deshler's request, came to Raymondś rescue andsecured for him a contract with the Korean government as their chiefengineer with pay that eventually reached $250 a month, with a servantand housing. The monthly salaries of the western miners at the OrientalMining Company were only $50 per month - and they were considered to bewell paid.
Like many of the westerners living in Korea, he speculated in realestate. This speculation usually involved purchasing land near a palaceor a site considered sensitive to the Koreans and then threatening tobuild upon it, the Korean government was then forced to purchase it foran inflated price.
In early 1900, after securing Horace Allen as a guarantor on a loan,Raymond purchased some land in Seoul for $2,500, and then later sold itback to the Korean government for $5,000. Due to a delay in obtainingthe money, he lost about $200 in the exchange. Raymond was still morethan pleased with his large profit and thanked Minister Allen profuselyfor his assistance, looking up to him almost as an older brother. Infact, Allen looked upon him as a younger brother and tried to convincehim to give up gambling and drinking, even taking him into his own homeand treating him like a member of his own family.
There are two ways to quickly destroy friendships between men: women andmoney, and both of these were factors in the animosity that arosebetween Minister Allen and Raymond. In late 1899, Mabel Everest, Allenśniece, came from her home in Columbus, Ohio, to visit her favorite andrather famous uncle. There were a few young, beautiful unmarried womenin Korea, and most of them were missionaries. No one of them were asfull of life and pleasure as Mabel. Mabel enjoyed dancing, singing,tennis, picnics, singing and riding her bicycle and horse, and quicklymade herself the social queen of the foreign community. She spent nearlyevery evening of her sojourn in Seoul and Chemulpo either as a guest orthe hostess of parties and dinners. Everyone desired to be in hercompany.
After being in Korea for nearly a year it was time for her to return tothe United States. Many of the young unmarried men in the communityprofessed their love for her, but she rejected their advances, insteadoffering to write them as ``a sister.́́ The night prior to her departurefrom Korea, Raymond made his way to Allen's home in Chemulpo and invitedher to take a long walk with him. During this long walk he alsoconfessed his love for her, and like the others, she turned him down.When Raymond and Mabel returned, Allen sensed that there was tensionbetween the young couple, but he never suspected that Raymond hadproposed to Mabel. Years later Allen stated that he would never haveallowed them to marry.
Raymond however would not take no for an answer and a few days after shedeparted Chemulpo he followed her in another ship to Nagasaki where heagain invited her to go out with him, this time on a jinrickshaw rideout into the Japanese countryside. Again he proposed marriage to her,claiming that the Allens had approved of the marriage. Mabel refused hisproposal again. Raymond was clearly angered by her refusal and shebecame frightened by his demeanor, demanding that the jinrickshaw drivertake them back to the city and relative safety. Mabel never met Raymondagain.
Raymond was sure that Allen had played him for a fool, and that thepayment delay incident and the marriage proposal rejection were all theresult of Allen. Raymond swore to get revenge.
- ↑ Raymond Krumm part II: Rejection's Revenge
The following is part two of Raymond Krumm story. _ ED.
After Raymond Krummś marriage proposal was rejected, he returned toKorea. For the next two years Raymondś feelings towards Allen souredand his behavior became worse _ more violent. Raymond showed letters toDeshler that he claimed proved that Allen was at fault for his loss ofmoney on the land deal money exchange, and when one of the letters cameup missing, he blamed Deshler and threatened to shoot him if it was notreturned to him. Allen summoned him to the Legation and threatened totake legal action against him if he did not cease harassing Deshler.
William, Raymondś brother, tried to talk sense into his brotherś headbut gave up and instead wrote Allen a letter in which he confessed shamebecause of his brotherś injurious actions towards Allen. He said thathis brotherś course was ``unreasonable, unjustifiable and entirely atvariance with the ordinary principles which govern the intercoursebetween men.́́ He went on to say that his brother would not listen toreason and was ``haunted by this hallucination _ this product of his ownmind.́́ And that he displayed an ``animosity whose foundations he doesnot want shattered by investigation.́́
Allen became increasingly alarmed at the growing display of violencethat Raymond exhibited. A Korean newspaper reported that Raymondaccidentally wounded one of his servants with a loaded gun that Raymondcarried around with him. Because there was no complaint lodged at theAmerican Legation, Allen was powerless to charge Raymond. Allen wrote insome of his correspondence that ``I really fear for my safety, as he[Raymond] is a dangerous mań́ and that Allen was ``hourly afraid of mylife, or that of my wife or Deshler.́́ Allen had Raymond examined by adoctor in an attempt to have him declared mentally unstable, but thedoctor would only certify him as possibly dangerous, but not legallyinsane.
Raymondś ill will towards Allen escalated, and he even tried to runAllen down from behind with his bicycle. Allen said that Raymondapproached him with ``the most savage looḱ́ and Allen thought his``time had come,́́ but he was able to defend himself with an umbrellaand forced Raymond to flee.
In 1903 Raymond was notified that his contract would not be renewed.Allenś hatred of Raymond may have had something to do with thetermination, but Allen denied it and insisted that it was Raymondś ownviolent personality that caused the Korean government to dispense withhis services. One member of the Korean government did see a use forRaymond _ it was Yi Yong-ik, a sworn enemy of Allenś. He gave Raymond2,000 yen for travel expenses, documents, and assurances that if Raymondbrought charges of wrong doing against Allen and Collbran and BostwickCo. to the American Congress that he would renew Raymondś contract.Raymond accepted it readily. He was so convinced that he would succeedin his mission that he left his house in Seoul ready for his return. Henever would return to Korea _ the Russo-Japanese War broke out soonafter his arrival in the United States and his benefactor _ Yi Yong-ik,fled to Russia.
Raymond made his way to the United States via the Trans-SiberianRailroad and then across the Atlantic Ocean and arrived in January 1904.He stayed in the Washington, D.C. area and met with Morgan, the formersecretary of the American Legation in Seoul, presenting a list ofgrievances to him concerning Minister Allen and the Collbran andBostwick Company.
In late March, two congressmen from Ohio assisted him in lodging a12-page letter of complaint to congress demanding that Allen, and tosome degree the C&B, be investigated for irregularities. Among some ofthe charges were: Allen used his official position to pressure theKorean government for his own financial gains; he took an inappropriaterole in getting his Korean friends positions in the Korean government sothat they could assist him in his own financial endeavors; he intimatedthat the United States would use force if Allenś requests were not met,as evidenced by his return to Korea aboard an American warship and thesubsequent stationing of American marines at the C&B power plant inSeoul; that his actions caused resentment amongst the Korean citizensand caused them to riot; and more serious in nature _ he implied thatAllen may have been connected with arson and the poisoning death of aKorean official in order to destroy documents and testimony damning tothe C&B. Raymond summed it up: ``Allen is a thoroughly corrupt man.́́
Congress did hold an investigation and found Allen innocent of allcharges. They promptly warned Raymond that if he continued to harass theminister he would be sent to a mental hospital for evaluation and thencommitted to a sanitarium. Raymond, from that point on, no longer workeddirectly against Allen but instead used Randolph Hearst and his powerfulweapon _ the newspaper _ to spread allegations and half-truths. Alleneventually lost his position and was replaced with Morgan _ causing deepsuspicion on Allenś part towards his former secretary who he believedconspired against him.
Raymond returned to his home in Ohio, working in one place afteranother. His brother William returned to Ohio a short time later andended up dying quite young of liver disease _ most likely brought on bythe heavy drinking in Korea. The Krumm family eventually lost theirfortune, as many did during the depression in the early 30s, but Raymondmanaged to save money working for short periods of time in differentcities in Ohio and the surrounding states. He never married, and forthat matter, none of his siblings did. Perhaps being spurned by Mabelhad left him with bitter feelings towards marriage, or he might havefollowed the advice given him by one of his relatives, ``Never marry.́́
After his death in 1948, it was discovered that he had donated the bulkof his estate to Ohio State University to establish the Martin KrummKorean Students Scholarship (named after his father). The initial giftwas $34,097, and it is now worth more than $111,500 with an income in2003 of $7,390. According to the terms of the scholarship, one half ofthe income is to be distributed to bona fide native-born Koreanstudents, if there are none, then it is to be given to Chinesestudents.
Raymond Krumm loved Korea and indeed left an imprint in Korea, one thatcontinues to this day.
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