Roupen Herian was born in Tokat in 1869. After graduating from the local school in 1883 he left for Constantinople, before moving to Boston in 1900 and then to New York, where he engaged successfully in the tobacco industry. He had become a member of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party when he was still in Tokat, and after the division of the party in 1896, he sided with the Reorganized Hunchakian Party. He joined the Armenian General Benevolent Union …