Born in Brownsville, Pa., May 6, 1853, Knox graduated from Mount 

 Union College, Ohio, in 1872. Later, he studied law and was admitted to 

 the bar in 1875. In 1901, President McKinley appointed him Attorney- 

 General. He left the Justice Department in 1904 to serve as a Senator 

 from Pennsylvania. In 1909, President Taft appointed Mr. Knox to the 

 Office of Secretary of State, a responsibility he held until the Taft Admin- 

 istration ended in 1913. In 1917, he was again elected to the Senate from 

 Pennsylvania. 



He died in Washington, D.C., and is buried at Valley Forge, Pa. 



Baron Rempei Kondo 

 (1848-1921) 



Mr. Kondo was President of the steamship company that in 1909 trans- 

 ported the cherry trees from Japan to Seattle, Wash. These trees were 

 shipped without charge to the United States because of Baron Kondo's 

 efforts. 



Born in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, Rempei Kondo was a graduate 

 of Daigaku Nanko (predecessor to Tokyo University). He rose from man- 

 ager of the Nihon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Shipping Line) to president. 

 Because of his contributions to military transportation during the Sino- 

 Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars, he was made a Baron in 1911 and 

 became a member of the Japanese House of Peers. He attended the Ver- 

 sailles Peace Treaty Conference in 1919 as a delegate. He also directed a 

 number of business enterprises in Japan. 



Yoshinao Kozai 

 (1864-1934) 



As Director of the Imperial Experiment Station, Nihigahara, Tokyo, 

 Japan, Professor Kozai was responsible for seeing that the second gift of 

 cherry trees sent to Washington, D.C., from Japan was free of diseases 

 and insect pests. 



Yoshinao Kozai was born in Kyoto Prefecture. After graduating from 

 Komaba Agricultural College (now Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo Uni- 

 versity) in 1887, he studied in Europe for several years. In 1899, he 

 returned to Japan to accept a professorship at Tokyo University. Later, 

 he became dean of the university's agricultural faculty and, ultimately, in 

 1920 president. After the university was destroyed by an earthquake in 

 1923, Kozai was foremost among those who worked to rebuild it. 



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