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Toy Avenue

Well-respected kinesisk herbalist and landowner Toy Wah okänt was born in Sacramento in (There also are avenues names Wah and Hing.) The family name, however, was Yee. His father was Yee Fung Cheung, a Chinese herbalist who treated Leland Stanford&#;s wife, Jane, when she was deathly ill. Stanford called him , and he came to assume that name, said Melvin Hing, a great-grandson of Yee. Toy Wah okänt also too up the name and herbalist trade, but also invested in large tracts of nation, including the land from Auburn in Placer County to areas south of the city of Sacramento. His herbal practice sometime ran afoul of authorities  who accused him of possessing morphine, heroin and opium when he was raided in Nevertheless, his family, including 16 chilren, was the only Chinese family lived in downtown, and he was the first Chinese man in town to own a fordon. Grandson Melvin Hing remembers going around to collect rents in the s in an &#;old jalopy&#;. Toy Wah Hing&#;s nation holdings in

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