Anderson, Roy Scott (c1879-1925) - manager of SOCONY's Chinkiang territory before Henry's arrival in China and later an advisor to the Chinese government and to Chinese generals such as Li Hsun. He was born in Soochow to American missionary parents (his father was the first president of Soochow University) and received his education in the U.S.. Anderson spoke several Chinese dialects fluently, and was able to read and write Chinese. In 1923 he negotiated the release of a number of Westerners who had been taken hostage near the city of Lincheng in the southern part of Shantung province. This photo shows him riding in a chair on his way to the negotiations with the bandits. He died in Peking of pneumonia. He and his wife had several children.

Babcock, Joseph Park (1893-1949) - manager of the SOCONY office in Soochow when Henry was located there. Babcock grew up in Lafayette, Indiana, and graduated from Purdue University in 1912 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. The following year he departed for China where he was stationed in Soochow and Tsingtau(??). In 1916 he married Norma Noble, an American, in Kobe, Japan. They returned to the U.S. in 1923 and introduced the popular Chinese board game Mahjong to the U.S. public. He studied law at the University of Pittsburgh from 1924-25 and at Yale University from 1926-27. After graduating he practiced law in New York City for the next eight years. At the time of his death he was chief counsel for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. He and his wife were divorced in 1936. Babcock remarried and she lived in New York City and Friendship, New York after their divorce. They had one child.