Look Tin Eli

Look Tin Eli (Left) and his brother, Lee Eli (right)

Look Tin Eli (d. 1919)[1] was a Chinese businessman from Mendocino, California, the first Chinese person to graduate from Mendocino High School.[2] He became a businessman in San Francisco, where he founded the Bank of Canton. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he was one of a group of merchants who hired American architects to rebuild San Francisco's Chinatown in a stereotypical "Oriental" style in order to promote tourism and social change.[3] His brother, Lee Eli, was also a wealthy banker.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Chinn, Thomas W. (1989), Bridging the Pacific, Chinese Historical Society of America, p. 54, ISBN 978-0-9614198-3-7.
  2. 1 2 Hee-Chorley, Lorraine (2009), Chinese in Mendocino County, Images of America, Arcadia Publishing, p. 76, ISBN 978-0-7385-5913-1.
  3. ↑ Ngai, Mae (April 17, 2006). "How Chinatown rose from the ashes". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
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