Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Kiong Kong Tuan (Chinese: 龚光传; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kíng Kong-thuân sometimes romanized as Kung Kuang-chuan, born 1790) came from Penang, where he had carried on business as a merchant and established himself in Singapore. He married a daughter of the well-known Choa Chong Long, by whom he had an only son, Kiong Seok Wee, and several daughters, one of whom became the wife of Wee Bin of the steamship firm of "Wee Bin & Co." Mr. Kong Tuan also figured as the Spirit Farmer for some years. He had a spirit factory at Pearl's Hill, and the site is still known among the Chinese as Chiu-long-san (the spirit factory hill). He was named, by Stamford Raffles as the first Kapitan China of Singapore. He held the opium farms for a long time during the 1830s. He was also involved in coffee and real estate. In the 1840s he had 50 acres (200,000 m2) of coffee near Jurong. He held the spirit and opium farms in 1848. He was the last opium farmer in Singapore. He died at the age of 64 years on 16 January 1854. Mr. Kong Tuan was the grantee of that large tract of land comprising 20 acres (81,000 m2) which has now become a thickly populated Straits Chinese residential quarter with Chin Swee Road as the main artery and Cornwall Street and Seok Wee Road as side streets."@en }
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- Kiong_Kong_Tuan abstract "Kiong Kong Tuan (Chinese: 龚光传; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kíng Kong-thuân sometimes romanized as Kung Kuang-chuan, born 1790) came from Penang, where he had carried on business as a merchant and established himself in Singapore. He married a daughter of the well-known Choa Chong Long, by whom he had an only son, Kiong Seok Wee, and several daughters, one of whom became the wife of Wee Bin of the steamship firm of "Wee Bin & Co." Mr. Kong Tuan also figured as the Spirit Farmer for some years. He had a spirit factory at Pearl's Hill, and the site is still known among the Chinese as Chiu-long-san (the spirit factory hill). He was named, by Stamford Raffles as the first Kapitan China of Singapore. He held the opium farms for a long time during the 1830s. He was also involved in coffee and real estate. In the 1840s he had 50 acres (200,000 m2) of coffee near Jurong. He held the spirit and opium farms in 1848. He was the last opium farmer in Singapore. He died at the age of 64 years on 16 January 1854. Mr. Kong Tuan was the grantee of that large tract of land comprising 20 acres (81,000 m2) which has now become a thickly populated Straits Chinese residential quarter with Chin Swee Road as the main artery and Cornwall Street and Seok Wee Road as side streets.".