Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Wong, Philip Chin June 7, 1885 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

PHILIP CHIN WONG, Corporation Official and Capitalist. Philip C. Wong, 
secretary and manager of the Chinese Mutual Investment Co. of Hawaii, Ltd., 
and an official and director of several other large concerns in Honolulu, 
began life as a bookkeeper for C. Q. Yee Hop & Co. in 1904. Three years later 
he was employed on the Honolulu directory, and for the ten-year period from 
908 to 1918 he was a clerk and bookkeeper for Claus Spreckels & Co. and its 
successor, the Bank of Honolulu, Ltd., which in turn was absorbed by the Bank 
of Bishop & Co., Ltd.
  In 1918 Mr. Wong was appointed secretary and manager of the Chinese Mutual 
Investment Co. of Hawaii, Ltd., having been secretary and a director of that 
firm since its organization in 1912. Mr. Wong has other extensive business 
affiliations, being president of the commission house of Yap Brothers, Ltd.; a 
director of the Pond Co., Ltd.; C. Q. Yee Hop & Co., Ltd., and the Olelomoana 
Ranch, Ltd., and is secretary and director of the Honolulu Canning Co., Ltd.; 
Kwong Hing Realty Co., Ltd., the Hawaiian Mahogany Co., Ltd., and The King 
Market, Ltd. He is first vice-president of the Hawaiian-Chinese Civic 
Association, a former president of the Chinese Students’ Alliance, director of 
the Honolulu Realty Board and the Chinese Commercial Club, and a member of the 
Honolulu Chamber of Commerce and the United Chinese Society.
  Born in Honolulu, June 7, 1885, Mr. Wong is the son of Wong Tet Yuen and 
Youkana Ho Wong. He attended the Iolani School of Honolulu and in 1904 was 
graduated from Punahou. In 1911 he married Ella S. Goo Kim, daughter of a 
former Chinese vice-consul to Hawaii, and they have two children, Andrew S. 
and Litheia M. Wong.


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