王绍经 (Wee Cheow Keng)- 海南名人 - 新加坡海南人(Singapore Hainanese)

在新加坡，有一条以王绍经 (Wee Cheow Keng) 的名字命名的街道---绍经街 (Cheow Keng Road, Singapore) www.hnszw.org.c... - Source: 王裕超 collection
Portrait of Mr. Wee Cheow Keng, circa 1927 - bit.ly/Wee_Cheo...
Wee Cheow Keng was born in 1860 in Qionghai District, Guangdong Province, China. A Hainanese, he came to Singapore in 1874. With a small start-up capital of $200, he went into the manufacture of cloth umbrellas (德裕布扇店). Later, he opened provision shops in Johor and Indonesia and imported leather to manufacture shoes. Wee later went into rubber planting and properties and owned many properties in the Katong area, including the largest house in the Joo Chiat area. He named Cheow Keng Street (off East Coast Road) after himself. In 1926 he was founding President of the Wang’s Ancestral Association (琼崖王氏祠). He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and of the Chinese High School. (See 柯木林, 《新华历 史人物列传》(Singapore: EPB, 1995), at 6-7). He died on 18 Mar 1939 aged 79. See ‘Funeral Announcement’ Straits Times, 12 Apr 1939, at 2. When Wee died in 1939, he was survived by five sons (Tin See, Tin Nam, Tin Thong, Tin Buck and Tin Tuck), two daughters (Su Neo and Ah Chee), 12 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Source: Pg 775 of this book - bit.ly/100_YEAR...

[@foocherteck4868]

my father work with him before,take care of his plantation in Batu Pahat,Johor

[@gladys9187]

真是感慨

[@khquah5637]

晚辈拜读了，也感到幸会，能多了解华侨先辈历史。

[@sethtan715]

I'm the great great great grandson of Cheow Keng

[@amirzhouleeamirlee6470]

Ni hao, my grandmother from hainan

[@yiyang5538]

我外公也是这么说的，知识文化是活本钱。。。