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Albert Fayerweather Leialoha Afong (1877–1948), married Anna Elizabeth Whiting and had four children: Elizabeth Kamakia Afong, Mary Katherine Afong, Katherine Whiting Afong, and Julia Fayerweather Afong. He became the first person of Chinese descent to head the Honolulu Stock
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Dye's wife Tessa Gay Magoon was a great-great granddaughter of Chun Afong. The "Sandalwood Mountains" in the title was the Chinese name for the Hawaiian Islands later Honolulu in the 19th-century, after the abundant trees which were exported to Asia during the reign of
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Nancy Eldorah Luhana Frederica Afong (1861–1940), married Francis Blately McStocker and had three children. Her husband served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Annexation Club and helped form the Citizens' Guard, the armed militia of the
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After the death of Afong's eldest son Chun Alung in 1889, he sold or reorganized most of his business holdings in Hawaiʻi and invested in the Douglas Steamship Company in Hong Kong. He named
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Emmeline Agatha Marie Kailimoku Afong (1858–1946), married firstly Henry Giles and had one daughter; and married secondly John Alfred Magoon and had seven children.
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Beatrice Melanie Afong (1880–1959), married firstly James Walter Wall Brewster and had two children; and married secondly Frank Moss and had no children.
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as administrator of an estate left in Hawaiʻi to support Julia and their many children. Afong never returned to Hawaiʻi and died in Hong Kong in 1906.
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Helen Gertrude Afong (1873–1953), married firstly William A. Henshall and had one son; and married secondly George F. Henshall and had no children.
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Caroline Bartlett Afong (1874–1942), married first Jacob Morton Riggs and married secondly Leonard Camp. No children from both marriages.
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Julia Afong died in Honolulu, at the age of 79, on February 14, 1919. She was buried at the Oahu Cemetery next to her son Jimmie.
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In 1909, Julia and Afong's life was fictionalized in the short magazine story, “Chun Ah Chun”, by American novelist
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Julia and Afong had sixteen children. The following list of descendants are compiled from the family in Dye's
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Henrietta (Etta) Patrinella Kealaiki Afong (1870–1940), married firstly United States Navy Rear Admiral
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and had a daughter; and married secondly Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt and had no children.
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with whom she had sixteen children. She was of British, American and Hawaiian descent.
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Julia Hope Afong (1864–1953), married Arthur Miller Johnstone and had eight children.
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Abram Henry Afong (1883–1933), married May Harvey and had one son Alvin Henry Afong.
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Martha Muriel Afong (1878–1983), married Andrew J. Dougherty and had three children.
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Marie K. Afong (1867–1925), married Abram Stephanus Humphreys and had four children.
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Alice Lillian Afong (1872–1953), married Edson Lewis Hutchinson and had one son.
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villa, where royalty and dignitaries were entertained, was sold in 1904 to the
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Elizabeth K. Afong (1869–1965), married Ignatius R. Burns and had no children.
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The Sandalwood Mountains: Readings and Stories of the Early Chinese in Hawaii
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Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawaiʻi
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Prats, J. J.; Miller, Richard E.; Pfingsten, Bill, eds. (November 16, 2008).
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Julia Afong (center) with her cousin George Charles Beckley and son
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Julia Hope Kamakia Paaikamokalani o Kinau Beckley Fayerweather Afong
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James "Jimmie" Edward Fayerweather Afong (1875–1875), died young.
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Antone "Toney" Abram Kekapala Keawemauhili Afong / Chun Chik-yu
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Julia Hope Kamakia Paaikamokalani o Kinau Beckley Fayerweather
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Ng, Franklin (1999). "Chun Afong". In Kim, Hyung-chan (ed.).
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from foreign attacks. It is now part of the property of the
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On May 28, 1857, she married Chinese millionaire merchant
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Taylor, Clarice B. (October 7 – December 25, 1953).
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Index


Honolulu
Kingdom of Hawaii
Honolulu
Territory of Hawaii
Chun Afong
Chun Afong
Hawaiʻi
aliʻi
George Charles Beckley
House of Kamehameha
Līloa
Mary Jane Fayerweather Davison Montano
Chun Afong
Kalākaua
Queen Emma
Kamehameha IV
Privy Council of State
Samuel Mills Damon

Toney Afong
Antone "Toney" Abram Kekapala Keawemauhili Afong / Chun Chik-yu
Republic of Hawaiʻi
William Henry Whiting

Jack London
across the color-line
13 Daughters
Broadway musical
Don Ameche

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