Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Lup, Lee 1881 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

LEE LUP, Lumber Dealer. Senior partner and manager of the firm of Lee Lup & 
Co., Lee Lup has been established as a contractor, lumber and hardware 
merchant of Honolulu since 1911, when he purchased the interests of the Lee 
Chu Lumber Co. He has been at work since he was sixteen years of age and was 
employed for more than twenty years by the Oahu Lumber and Building Co., and 
for seven years by the Lee Chu Lumber Co., which he acquired. In 1923 Mr. Lup 
extended his business to include a hardware department. Engaged also in 
contracting and building, he has erected many residences in Honolulu and has 
held contracts for construction work at Ewa, Honolulu and Waialua plantations.
  Born in Honolulu in 1881, Mr. Lup is the son of Lee Tung and Chun Shee. 
Taken to China as a child, he was educated there, returning to Honolulu to 
enter business life. Although residing in Hawaii since 1897, he has since made 
several trips to China. He married Chun Shee in Honolulu in 1903 and they have 
ten children. Mr. Lup is a member of the Chinese Merchants’ Association, 
president of the Chinese Carpenters’ Association, which he reorganized in 
1915; vice-president of the Mun Lun Chinese school, president of the Kwong 
Hing Realty Co., and a director of the Tong Fat Co., Ltd. In 1904 he went to 
Formosa where, for more than a year he was associated with his father-in-law, 
Chun Yee Kau, president and manager of the Sing Tai Chan Co., one of the 
largest merchandising firms in Formosa.


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