10 Facts About Stirling Fessenden

Stirling Fessenden came to Shanghai in April 1903 to work as a sub-manager with the American Trading Company.

Stirling Fessenden served as Chairman of the Far Eastern Bar Association in Shanghai for many years.

In 1920, Stirling Fessenden was elected a member of Shanghai Municipal Council Board of Trustees and in October 1923 he became chairman of the Municipal Council.

Stirling Fessenden created the American Mercantile Company, mostly dealing with Shanghai real-estate in 1925 along with Harry Virden Bernard.

In 1929, Stirling Fessenden resigned from his post as Chairman of the Municipal Council and took up the post of Director-General of Municipal Council, charged with the administration of the council.

Stirling Fessenden was succeeded by G Godfrey Phillips, the secretary of the Council.

In 1941, when Japan occupied the Shanghai International Settlement at the start of the Pacific War, the Japanese forced Stirling Fessenden to be interned with Russian refugees.

Stirling Fessenden was offered a passage out of Shanghai in September 1943 on the Teia Maru to Goa.

Stirling Fessenden died of a heart ailment, in Shanghai on February 1,1944.

Stirling Fessenden had indicated before his death that he wished to be cremated.