Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Wong an haife shi ne a 1847 zuwa ga dangi mai kyau wanda ba da daɗewa ba ya rasa dukiyarsa a lokacin
Tawayen Taiping. A shekara ta 1861, wasu ma'aurata masu wa'azi a ƙasashen waje suka ɗauke shi, kuma aka yi masa baftisma a cikin addinin Baptist kuma ya zo Amurka a 1867. A cikin shekaru masu zuwa ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Columbian a Washington, DC da Jami'ar a Lewisburg (daga baya aka sake masa suna Jami'ar Bucknell) a Lewisburg, Pennsylvania a 1869<unk>70, kuma ya bar ba tare da kammala digiri ba.