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About LEE Cheng Yan 李清棩
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The firm of Lee Cheng Yan & Co. chop Chin Joo commenced its career in 1858 as commission agents and general traders. The founder was Lee Cheng Yan, who came from Malacca, where he was born in 1841, and who started, as usual, a small business in Telok Ayer Street. His brother Lee Cheng Gum joined him, and in ten years' time the firm had become one of the principal Chinese houses dealing with Europeans. The firm later removed to No.10 Malacca Street and developed its business as financiers and house-property investors, and is now as prosperous as ever. Mr. Lee Cheng Yan took a great deal of interest in all matters concerning the Chinese, and was on the Committee of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the Chinese Advisory Board and the Po Leung Kuk, and a J.P. Realising the necessity of doing something in the matter of education for the poor, he founded and endowed the Hong Joo Chinese Free School in Serangoon Road which is attended by over seventy scholars. He was also one of the original trustees of the Gan Eng Seng (now known as the Anglo-Chinese) Free School, and on the Committee of the Toh Lam Chinese School in North Bridge Road (since removed to Armenian Street). In company with Tay Geok Teat, he visited Europe in 1883. On his retirement from active business, his son, Mr. Lee Choon Guan, took over the management, and after his death in May 191 I Mr. Lee Choon Guan became the sole proprietor. The interest of Mr. Lee Cheng Gum in the firm ceased with his death. Mr. Cheng Gum left considerable property to his son, Lee Keng Hee, who was born in 1870 and was educated at the High School, Malacca. In 1900 Mr. Keng Hee opened up 5,000 acres of land at Bekoh, and planted tapioca and, later, rubber thereon. This estate has since been acquired by the Bekoh Rubber Estates Ltd. Mr. Keng Hee is a partner of Guan loo & Co., General Merchants and Commission Agents, carrying on business at No. 10 Malacca Street. •Change Date: 19 DEC 2012 at 17:06:11
Father: LEE Chan Bee b: 1801 Mother: GOH Liang Neo b: 1802
Marriage 1 FEMALE5 •Change Date: 20 FEB 2009 Children1.Has Children LEE Choon Guan b: 1868
Marriage 2 Ah Yeow •Change Date: 30 JAN 2009
Marriage 3 Lin Yeow •Change Date: 30 JAN 2009
Marriage 4 Ah Lian •Change Date: 30 JAN 2009
Marriage 5 Ah Ho •Change Date: 30 JAN 2009
Marriage 6 LEONG Botan •Change Date: 20 FEB 2009 Children1.Has Children LEE Keng Tye
Marriage 7 LAY Guat Neo •Change Date: 30 JAN 2009
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LEE Cheng Yan 李清棩's Timeline
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1841
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Malacca, Malaysia
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1868
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May 18, 1911
Age 70
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