 He attended a year at the CIM's Chinese Language School at Anqing, Anhui, and then he was appointed to the work in Taiyuan, Shanxi.Three of his siblings (Hudson, Marshall and Edith) had all contracted typhus there, but all three recovered.Florence Corderoy followed him to China in 1894, but mission regulations required that they could not marry until both had served for two years on the field.