On Siang Tat's death Lim Ho Puah became the sole surviving partner in the firm of Wee Bin & Co.

Wee Bin & Co.

Wee Bin & Co. chop Hong Guan, in Market Street, a firm that was rapidly becoming prominent in Singapore in the 1860s', was founded by Wee Bin. This firm carried on business as Merchants and Shipowners. The firm at first began business relations with various houses in Bali in the Dutch Indies, and...

, which was liquidated in 1911, when the greater part of the firm's business, including all the large steamers, was taken over by his son, Lim Peng Siang

Lim Peng Siang

Lim Peng Siang or Lin Bengxian together with his brother Lim Peng Mao of Lin Bingmao, through their Ho Hong Group of companies,, founded in 1904, had interests in banking, shipping, parboiled rice, oil mills, cement, coconut and other businesses. President of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce...

. Lim Ho Puah was born in Amoy

Amoy

Xiamen, or Amoy, is a city on the southeast coast of China.Amoy may also refer to:*Amoy dialect, a dialect of the Hokkien lects, which are part of the Southern Min group of Chinese languages...

 in 1841 and coming to Singapore at an early age entered the service of Wee Bin & Co. in a humble capacity. His industry and business intelligence soon attracted the notice of his employer, Wee Bin

Wee Bin

Wee Bin born in China in 1823, was a far-sighted and enterprising Chinese migrant of the mid nineteenth century who, in his time, founded, Singapore's largest Chinese shipping firm. In 1856 at the age of thirty-three, Wee Bin was founder of Wee Bin & Co...

, and he became the towkay's son-in-law. He was the founder and senior partner of the Wee Bin steamship line and other concerns. During his long residence in Singapore, he took much interest in local public affairs. He was at one time a Director of Tan Kim Ching

Tan Kim Ching

Singapore-born Tan Kim Ching who lived from 1829 to Feb 1892 was the eldest of the three sons of Tan Tock Seng, the founder and financier of Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He was consul for Japan, Thailand and Russia, was a member of the Royal Court of Siam. He was one of Singapore’s leading Chinese...

's Tanjong Pagar Dock Company

Tanjong Pagar Dock Company

The Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, , the forerunner of today's Port of Singapore Authority, was founded by Guthrie and Company and Tan Kim Ching. The company was expropriated by the Government in 1905 who replaced it with the Tanjong Pagar Dock Board....

, and served also as a member of the Chinese Advisory Board and on the Committee of the Po Leung Kuk

Po Leung Kuk

The Po Leung Kuk is a charitable organisation in Hong Kong that provides support for orphaned children, education and other services.-Founding of Po Leung Kuk:...

, and was made a J.P. He died in February 1913 at the age of 72. His remains were interred in China.

See also

• Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 By Eric Tagliacozzo Published by Yale University Press, 2005; ISBN 0300089686, 9780300089684; p. 382
• Tanjong Pagar: A Pictorial Journey (1819–1989) = Tan-jung Pa-ko Tʻu Pʻien Chi By Tanjong Pagar Constituency (Singapore, Tanjong Pagar Citizens' Consultative Committee, Tanjong Pagar Constituency (Singapore), Tanjong Pagar Citizens' Consultative Committee Published by Tanjong Pagar Constituency, 1989; ISBN 9813002271, 9789813002272; pp. 88, 139, 181