Wen I-to was the eldest son of a renowned scholar family of Hsi-shui County in Hupei Province. At an early age he was trained in the classics by a disciplinarian father, and at then he was sent to Wuchang (a day's trip from Hsi-shui) to study at a modern grade school.

‘My father only had two nobblers at Dwyer's place that morning.’

It was strange because the boy I was fighting with had developed a reputation for being able to shoot the boots and I was supposed to be good with my hands.

Witneſſe the diſputation at Berne in Anno 1527. betweene Conradus Treyerus an Auguſtin Frier, and Martin Bucer.