Born in the city of Caesarea ( now Kayseri ) , Ottoman Empire on December 1 , 1882 or 1883 , Cardashian studied in the local French lyceum and Talas American College . He emigrated to the United States in 1902 . He got accepted at Yale University in 1904 and earned a Law degree in 1908 . In the same year , he wrote a book entitled '' The Ottoman Empire of the Twentieth Century '' . Cardashian entered the New York State Bar Association in 1909 and began practicing law . In 1913 , he was the Fiscal Agent of the Ottoman Empire in the United States . Prior to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 , he served as a counselor and statistician to the Ottoman Chamber of Commerce in America . He was a counselor for the Ottoman Embassy in Washington , D.C. and then to the Ottoman Consulate General in New York from 1910 to 1915 . He authored several books on the Armenian Question . Some authors claim otherwise , but in his 1934 obituary , it 's stated that Cardashian was survived by his sister , mother and brother
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Vahan Cardashian