Oak Hill Cemetery grave marker from 1890 for Ye Cha Yun. Credit: Collection of the Old Korean Legation Museum.

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This file appears in: Finding Asian American History: Washon Ye Headstone
Oak Hill Cemetery grave marker from 1890 for Ye Cha Yun. <br /> Credit: Collection of the Old Korean Legation Museum.
This file appears in: Finding Asian American History: Washon Ye Headstone

Washon Ye, was reportedly the first Korean to be born in the US (October 12, 1890). The son of Ye Cha Yun (이채연), the fourth minister to the Korean Legation in DC, Washon was named for his birth city and christened at the Church of the Covenant. He…