Thomas R. Jernigan

Thomas Roberts Jernigan was US consul in Kobe, Japan, and later US consul general in Shanghai, China. After leaving the diplomatic service he was Standard Oil Company's attorney in China, and served as chairman of the Shanghai International Settlement. From 1905, he went into private practice as a lawyer with Stirling Fessenden under the firm name Jernigan and Fessenden.
Jernigan Road in Shanghai was named after him. He wrote a number of works on Chinese economics.
Jernigan died in 1920 and was buried on a hill overlooking Nanjing. He is remembered on a plaque in Raleigh, North Carolina

Publications

"Banking, Currency and Land Tenure in the Chinese Empire", in A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations, vol. 4.
"A Hindrance to Our Foreign Trade", North American Review, Vol. 163, No. 479, pp. 438–447.
"Commercial Trend of China", North American Review, Vol. 165, No. 488, pp. 63–69.
China's Business Methods and Policy.
China in Law and Commerce.
Shooting in China.