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Eu Kong

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Subject :Eu Kong
Published By : Publisherd by Lloyd's Greater British Publishing Co. Author Arnold Wright 
Location : Gopeng, Perak
Estimated Year : 1890
Media Type : Photograph
Source : Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya tin miner murdered
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Eu Kong migrated to Penang in 1876 taking up work as an assistant in a grocery shop and setting up the Yan Seng Chinese medicine shop in Gopeng in 1879. He returned to China in 1881 to bring up his son Eu Tong Sen. Within a year he returned to Malaya and with his son and a new wife he met on the voyage back. His new English speaking wife had good connections with local Chinese Baba families helping Eu Kong to build a productive relationship with the Assistant Magistrate in Gopeng. This put him in a good position to acquire and maintain government contracts and he soon became a successful tin miner. He went on to become the principal miner and Revenue Farmer of Gopeng. However, he met an untimely death age 38 reportedly murdered by a jealous husband.

To read about Eu Kong and Eu Tong Sen, click here.

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