Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Yap, Alfred Kui Farr September 1, 1881 - 
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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

  ALFRED KUI FARR YAP, Commission Merchant. A son of the late J. T. S. Yap, 
pioneer Chinese merchant of Honolulu, Alfred K. F. Yap was educated in the 
public schools of Honolulu and at Punahou and worked in the insurance 
department of the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd., from 1902 until 1912, when he 
became associated with his two brothers in the establishment of a commission 
business.
  This firm was incorporated in 1921, nine years after it was founded, and is 
the oldest commission house in the Chinese district of Honolulu. It is 
capitalized at $40,000, and handles men’s furnishings and men’s and women’s 
shoes, representing many large mainland firms, including John B. Ellison of 
Philadelphia, the oldest woolen house in America; A. W. Tedcastle Co. of 
Boston, Mass., shoe manufacturers; Wachusset Shirt CO. of Leominster, Mass., 
and Hewes & Potter of Boston.
  Mr. Yap is manager and treasurer of Yap Brothers, Ltd., auditor of the 
Hawaiian Chinese Civic Club, and a member of the Chinese Commercial Club, 
Honolulu Chamber of Commerce and the Honolulu Ad Club. He was born in Honolulu 
on Sept. 1, 1881. His mother was Lai Sam Kiau Yap. In 1906 Mr. Yap married 
Mollie Aloiau of Kapaa, Kauai, and they have one son, Harold Yap, a student at 
Punahou.


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