Choa Chong Long
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Choa Chong Long the distinguished son of Kapitan Chua Su Cheong, a Kapitan China under the Dutch, ventured to Singapore
, but unlike most of the Chinese and Malays who went there to seek their fortune, Choa Chong Long was already rich. His daughter married Kiong Kong Tuan
.
He was an opium farmer. The earliest on the island and its last as well.
He was thought to be one of the first Chinese to manage a plantation in Singapore.
He was an early Chinese shopkeeper.
He celebrated his forty-fourth birthday by giving a grand dinner to which all influential residents of the island, including many Europeans, were invited.
Dying in 1838, he left a will containing "a devise for ever of certain properties for sinchew (ancestral worship) purposes which was eventually declared void.
He died in China.
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, but unlike most of the Chinese and Malays who went there to seek their fortune, Choa Chong Long was already rich. His daughter married Kiong Kong Tuan
Kiong Kong Tuan
Kiong Kong Tuan came from Penang, where he had carried on business as a merchant and established himself in Singapore. He married a daughter of the well-known Choa Chong Long, by whom he had an only son, Kiong Seok Wee, and several daughters, one of whom became the wife of Wee Bin of the steamship...
.
He was an opium farmer. The earliest on the island and its last as well.
He was thought to be one of the first Chinese to manage a plantation in Singapore.
He was an early Chinese shopkeeper.
He celebrated his forty-fourth birthday by giving a grand dinner to which all influential residents of the island, including many Europeans, were invited.
Dying in 1838, he left a will containing "a devise for ever of certain properties for sinchew (ancestral worship) purposes which was eventually declared void.
He died in China.
See also
- Holding the Fort: Melaka Under Two Flags, 1795-1845 by Brian Harrison - Malacca (Malacca) - 1985 - Page 145
- Chinese leadership and power in colonial Singapore by Ching Fatt Yong; Published by Times Academic Press, 1992, ISBN 9812100288, 9789812100283
- Physical adjustments in a changing landscape: the Singapore story By Avijit Gupta, John Pitts published by Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore, 1992 ISBN 9971691728, 9789971691721
- Stories of early Singapore By Harold Frank Pearson, University of London Press, 1954
- Singapore civil society and British power By E. Kay Gillis ISBN 9810526946, 9789810526948
- Entrepreneurs and institutions in Europe and Asia, 1500-2000 By Ferry de Goey, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp ISBN 9052600325, 9789052600321
- 新社學報, Volumes 1-3 published by 新社, 1967