Thomas Foon Chew
id:
thomas-foon-chew-276-7633274
title:
Thomas Foon Chew
text:
Thomas Foon Chew (1889-1932) was an immigrant from China who became the richest Chinese American in California and became known as the "Asparagus King" in the 1920s. In 1897, at the age of 8, he immigrated to California with his mother to join his father, Sai Yen Chew, who owned the Precita Canning Company in San Francisco. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 would have prevented their entrance, but they received an exemption for Chinese merchants. After the 1906 earthquake destroyed the family's
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Chinese business man
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Foon_Chew
date created:
date modified:
2023-10-14T06:40:32Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q116453830","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q116453830"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14