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About: Yeap Chor Ee     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

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Type: personyago:WikicatMalaysianPeopleOfChineseDescentyago:WikicatPeopleFromQuanzhouyago:CausalAgent100007347yago:LivingThing100004258yago:Object100002684yago:Organism100004475yago:Person100007846yago:PhysicalEntity100001930yago:YagoLegalActoryago:YagoLegalActorGeoyago:Whole100003553 New Facet based on Instances of this Class

Yeap Chor Ee was a businessman and philanthropist. He was born in the village of Nan'an, Fujian, China, in 1867. He came to Penang at the age of 17 in the 1880s virtually penniless, and found work as a barber. He rose to become the richest men in Penang. Over a course of thirty years, he built an empire with real banking, real estate and commodities trading activities. He founded the in 1918 and many other companies. Yeap Chor Ee remained the only individual who single-handedly funded the establishment of a bank in that era. He also became one of the State's leading philanthropists. Yeap died in 1952 at the age of 85. By then, he was known as "The Grand Old Man of Penang", praised for his "old-world courtesy, humility, generosity and integrity".