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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/David_W_C_Olyphant.png/330px-David_W_C_Olyphant.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/David_W_C_Olyphant.png/440px-David_W_C_Olyphant.png 2x" data-file-width="451" data-file-height="686" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">David Washington Cincinnatus Olyphant</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1789-03-07</span>)</span>March 7, 1789<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Newport,_Rhode_Island" title="Newport, Rhode Island">Newport, Rhode Island</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">June 10, 1851<span style="display:none">(1851-06-10)</span> (aged 62)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Businessman</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Ann Archer McKenzie</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>David Washington Cincinnatus<sup id="ref_A_1" class="reference"><a href="#cnote_A">[A]</a></sup> Olyphant</b> (March<span class="nowrap"> </span>7, 1789 – June<span class="nowrap"> </span>10, 1851) was an American <a href="/wiki/Old_China_Trade" title="Old China Trade">trader in the Far East</a> and "the father of the American Mission to China".<sup id="cite_ref-Bridgman1864_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bridgman1864-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was an elected member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Board_of_Commissioners_for_Foreign_Missions" title="American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions">American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions</a> (ABCFM), the organization that sent the first American missionaries to China in 1829.<sup id="cite_ref-Columbia_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Columbia-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Rhode_Island" title="Newport, Rhode Island">Newport, Rhode Island</a>, he was the son of Dr. David Olyphant, a Scottish supporter of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stewart" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Edward Stewart">Bonnie Prince Charlie</a>, who arrived in America in the 1740s shortly after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden" title="Battle of Culloden">Battle of Culloden</a>, and Ann (née Vernon) Olyphant, granddaughter of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ward_(governor)" title="Richard Ward (governor)">Richard Ward</a>, governor of <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ElectricScotland_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ElectricScotland-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1806, following the death of his father, he went to <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> where he worked for the firm of King and Talbot, who were involved in the <a href="/wiki/Old_China_Trade" title="Old China Trade">China trade</a>. After living in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> between 1812 and 1817, he returned to New York where in 1820 he became an agent of Thomas H. Smith of Canton (now <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a>), China.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShavit1990373_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShavit1990373-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="China">China</h2></div> <p>On behalf of King and Talbot, Olyphant arrived in Canton in 1820, where he met the Scottish missionary <a href="/wiki/Robert_Morrison_(missionary)" title="Robert Morrison (missionary)">Robert Morrison</a>. Thereafter he began a long-term involvement with <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> missionary endeavors in China.<sup id="cite_ref-Columbia_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Columbia-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Olyphant returned to China following the birth of his son <a href="/wiki/Robert_Morrison_Olyphant" title="Robert Morrison Olyphant">Robert Morrison Olyphant</a> to find the man after whom he had named his son<sup id="cite_ref-ElectricScotland_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ElectricScotland-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> alone in Canton and suffering from chronic depression<sup id="cite_ref-Ward1998_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ward1998-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> following the death of his fellow missionary <a href="/wiki/William_Milne_(missionary)" title="William Milne (missionary)">William Milne</a>. Delays by the <a href="/wiki/London_Missionary_Society" title="London Missionary Society">London Missionary Society</a> in sending Morrison assistance led to Olyphant writing to the <a href="/wiki/American_Board_of_Commissioners_for_Foreign_Missions" title="American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions">American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions</a> (ABCFM) with the news that his ship <i>Roman</i> would be departing for Canton in December 1829, and "if a missionary could be sent out in her, the passage should be free."<sup id="cite_ref-Newcomb1860_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newcomb1860-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result, the chosen individual, <a href="/wiki/Elijah_Coleman_Bridgman" title="Elijah Coleman Bridgman">Elijah Coleman Bridgman</a>, became the first American Protestant Christian missionary in China.<sup id="cite_ref-Columbia_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Columbia-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ward1998_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ward1998-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Olyphant offered all subsequent missionaries free passage on his ships and free lodgings in Canton as well as supporting the locally produced newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/The_Canton_Register" title="The Canton Register">The Canton Register</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShavit1990373_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShavit1990373-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ElectricScotland_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ElectricScotland-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, Olyphant allowed the physician and missionary <a href="/wiki/Peter_Parker_(physician)" title="Peter Parker (physician)">Peter Parker</a> to use one of his warehouses as a hospital "so that patients could come and go without annoying foreigners by passing through their <i><a href="/wiki/Hong_(business)" title="Hong (business)">hongs</a></i>, or excite the observations of natives by being seen to resort to a foreigner's house, rendered it most suitable for the purpose."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November<span class="nowrap"> </span>29, 1834, Olyphant, along with <a href="/wiki/James_Matheson" title="James Matheson">James Matheson</a>, William Wetmore, James Innes, Thomas Fox, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, <a href="/wiki/Karl_G%C3%BCtzlaff" title="Karl Gützlaff">Karl Gützlaff</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Robert_Morrison" title="John Robert Morrison">John Robert Morrison</a>, formed a committee to inaugurate the <i>Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in China</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-BridgmanWilliams1835_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BridgmanWilliams1835-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1838, Olyphant was elected to the board of the ABCFM.<sup id="cite_ref-Columbia_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Columbia-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1842, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Wells_Williams" title="Samuel Wells Williams">Samuel Wells Williams</a>, an American Sinologist, described him as a "steady and munificent friend of all efforts for the good of China".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Olyphant_&_Co."><span id="Olyphant_.26_Co."></span>Olyphant & Co.</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Olyphant_%26_Co." title="Olyphant & Co.">Olyphant & Co.</a></div> <p>In 1828, along with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_N._Talbot&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles N. Talbot (page does not exist)">Charles N. Talbot</a>, Olyphant founded the <a href="/wiki/Hong_(business)" title="Hong (business)">trading house</a> <a href="/wiki/Olyphant_%26_Co." title="Olyphant & Co.">Olyphant & Co.</a> in Canton, trading in "silk, mattings and fancy articles"<sup id="cite_ref-NYTimes_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTimes-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after their former employer King and Talbot went bankrupt.<sup id="cite_ref-Knoblock2014_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Knoblock2014-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new firm was unusual in that it eschewed the <a href="/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China" title="History of opium in China">opium trade</a> unlike many of its contemporary competitors.<sup id="cite_ref-Austin2011_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Austin2011-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2></div> <p>Forced by ill-health to leave China for the US, Olyphant died <i>en route</i> in <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, Egypt, on June<span class="nowrap"> </span>10, 1851.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShavit1990373_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShavit1990373-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Offspring">Offspring</h2></div> <p>Olyphant's son <a href="/wiki/Robert_Morrison_Olyphant" title="Robert Morrison Olyphant">Robert Morrison Olyphant</a> joined his father at Olyphant & Co. and was later progressively Assistant President, Vice-President, and for twenty years President of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company (later the <a href="/wiki/Delaware_and_Hudson_Railway" title="Delaware and Hudson Railway">Delaware and Hudson Railway</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-ElectricScotland_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ElectricScotland-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His great-great-great-grandson is actor <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Olyphant" title="Timothy Olyphant">Timothy Olyphant</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <div style=""><ol class="references" style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;"> <li id="cnote_A"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#ref_A_1">^</a></b></span> <div style="display:inline;" class="reference-text">Olyphant's second two forenames were in honor of <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> and the Roman statesman <a href="/wiki/Cincinnatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnatus">Cincinnatus</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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