While later working at the Chinese Methodist School in San Jose, he pursued further studies at the University of the Pacific from which he graduated in 1892.
[3] After a year working as an agent for a building and loan association and a San Francisco law firm, Fong married fellow Stanford student Emma Howse in 1897, travelling to Denver, Colorado, to register the marriage, it being the only state where mixed marriages were legal at the time.
Having decided business was not for him, he completed another three years' science studies at the University of California, Berkeley, obtaining is master's degree, all the while acting as pastor of the Oakland Chinese M. E. Mission at this time.
[1] In 1900, Fong's first academic posting was as an instructor in John Fryer's School of Oriental Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught a course in elementary Cantonese.
[6] His article published in the August 1905 edition of Popular Science Monthly bemoaning the poor state of education in China yet highlighting the vast potential garnered considerable interest.