Cheah Tek Soon

Cheah Tek Soon was a prominent 19th century figure after whom Tek Soon Street was named.

The Penang Khean Guan Insurance Company

He was a founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Penang Khean Guan Insurance Company. The board was composed thus:

Name of Partners

Tan Ley Kum 陈俪琴 Chairman

Lee Phee Yeow 李丕耀 Chong Moh & Co.

Cheah Eu Ghee 谢有义 Chie Hin & Co.

Khoo Thean Teik 邱天德 Chin Bee & Co.

Khoo Sim Bee 邱心美 Ee Soon & Co.

Cheah Tek Soon 谢德顺 Sin Eng Moh & Co.

Ong Beng Tek 王明德 Ban Chin Hong & Co.

Foo Tye Sin 胡泰兴

Yeoh Cheng Tek 杨清德 Hong Thye & Co.

Khaw Sim bee 许心美 Koe Guan & Co.

Cheah Leng Hoon 谢凌云 Eng Ban Hong & Co.

Gan Kim Swee 颜金水 Aing Joo & Co.

Tan Lim Keng 陈锦庆 Kim Cheang & Co.

Cheah Chean Eok 谢增煜 Secretary

Ong Boon Tek 王文德 Treasurer

Logan & Ross Solicitors ^[1]

More

• Chinese Business Enterprise By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown Published by Taylor & Francis, 1996; ISBN 0415142938, 9780415142939; p. 65
• Capital and Entrepreneurship in South-East Asia By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown, 1943- Brown Published by St. Martin's Press, 1994; ISBN 0312120966, ISBN 9780312120962; p. 87
• The Chinese in Manila By Eufronio Melo Alip Published by National Historical Commission, 1974; p. 38
• Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang By Wu Xiao An, Xiao An Wu Published by Routledge, 2003; p. 44
• The Insurance Year Book By Spectator insurance yearbook Published by Spectator Co., 1916; Item notes: v. 44 (1916/1917); p. 482
• The Insurance Year Book By Spectator insurance yearbook Published by Spectator Co., 1914; Item notes: v. 42 (1914/1915); p. 457
• The Spectator Insurance Year Book By Spectator Company (New York, N.Y.) Published by The Spectator, 1925; p. 137
• Europe and Southeast Asia in the Contemporary World: Mutual Influences and Comparisons ; International Conference of Historians, Wuppertal, 8–10 October 1998 By Franz Knipping, Piyanāt Bunnāk, Vimolvan Phatharodom Contributor Franz Knipping; Published by Nomos, 1999; ISBN 3789062529, ISBN 9783789062520; p. 108
• Census of the Philippine Islands: Taken Under the Direction of the Philippine Commission in the Year 1903, in Four Volumes ... By United States Bureau of the Census, Joseph Prentiss Sanger, Henry Gannett, Victor Hugo Olmsted, United States Philippine Commission, 1900-1916 Published by Govt. Print. Off., 1905; Item notes: v.4; p. 546

Penang Opium Syndicate

• 1880-1882 Chop 'Ban Bee': Cheah Chen Eok, Lee Chin Chuan, Gan Kim Swee, Khoo Thean Poh, Cheah Tek Soon
• 1883-1885 Chop 'Ban Bee': Cheah Chen Eok, Lee Chin Chuan, Gan Kim Swee, Khoo Thean Poh, Cheah Tek Soon
• 1886-1888 Chop 'Ban Bee': Cheah Chen Eok, Lee Chin Chuan, Gan Kim Swee, Ng Ah Thye, Cheah Tek Soon

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The 1905 Chinese Anti-American Boycott Movement

During the Chinese Anti-American Boycott Movement, Cheah Tek Soon (Xie Deshun) join Gon Boon Tan (Wen Wedan), and others in making speeches to further stir up feelings against America.^[4][5]

Cheah Tek Soon 5 Storey Mansion

Originally built in the 1880s by Cheah Tek Soon it was the first five-story residence in Penang. The building passed on to his only child, his daughter Cheah Liew Bee who married Dr. Sun Yat Sen supporter, Goh Say Eng. Goh, who was selling his properties one by one to support Dr. Sun's revolutionary movement, eventually sold this property too. Merchant Tye Kee Yoon bought it and turned it into a hotel. It has been known as the Bellevue Hotel and also Raffles-By-The-Sea. It was then leased to the Government and used as an English school (1920s) and later became the Shih Chung branch school after the war. In 1993 it was seems to have been acquired by the Malaysia Vegetable Oil Refinery Sdn Bhd, one of the major shareholders of Stanford Raffles By The Sea Sdn Bhd, from the Tye trustees at a price of nine and a half million Malaysian Ringgit. With the purchase, the building which has, through the years been reduced to three storeys, is to be restored and will surrounded by a three-block columbarium to be built by developers Stanford Raffles By The Sea Sdn Bhd.^[6]

References

Sources

1. ^ Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 9 February 1886, p. 2
2. ^ Singapore Straits Directory, issues 1882-1909
3. ^ Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang By Wu Xiao An, Xiao An Wu Published by Routledge, 2003 ISBN 0415301769, ISBN 9780415301763; pp. 89, 200,228
4. ^ U.S. National Archives 1833-1906: Sep. 19, 1905
5. ^ The Chinese Boycott: A Social Movement in Singapore and Malaya in the Early Twentieth Century* by WONG Sin Kiong in Southeast Asian Studies, Vo1.36, No.2, September 1998
6. ^ *Row over the dead By CHOONG KWEE KIM, The Star Thursday, June 26, 2003: A columbarium project smack in the middle of the Millionaire’s Row in Penang has drawn enough flak to make the dead turn in their graves, reports CHOONG KWEE KIM.

See also

• Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 6 July 1895
• The Big Five Hokkien Families in Penang, 1830s–1890s ©2007 Yeetuan Wong, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 1, 2007 南方華裔研究雜誌,第一卷, 2007
• The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c. ; with which are Incorporated "The China Directory" and "The Hongkong Directory and Hong List for the Far East" ...: With which are Incorporated ... Published by The Hongkong Daily Press Office, 1894; Item notes: 1894; p. 393
• Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society By Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Malaysian Branch, Singapore Published by , 1996; p. 41
• Parliamentary Papers By Great Britain Parliament. House of Commons, Parliament, Great Britain, House of Commons Published by HMSO, 1885; Item notes: 1884-1885:v.52; p. 241
• The Protected Malay States, 1874-1895 By Emily Sadka Published by University of Malaya Press, 1968; p. 431
• The demise of the revenue farm system in the Federated Malay States by JG Butcher - Modern Asian Studies, 1983
• 40 Years of Woman's Work in Malaya, 1887-1927 by Sophia Blackmore

Tek Soon Street

Law Suits

• Penang Foundry Co v Cheah Tek Soon (1882) 1 Ky 559

Cheah Tek Soon 5 Storey Mansion

• by Quah, Seng-Sun
• Michael LaPalme

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