Lue gim gong biography of christopher walken

A Chinese immigrant came to Deland more than years ago and his contribution to the citrus industry was honored by the city. I was moved when I visited this memorial garden. His dedication should make all Chinese immigrants proud. After his uncle returned from America when Lue was 12, Lue pleaded with his parents to let him go with his uncle to America.

His parents agreed, giving him a bolt of silk to sell when he arrived. He lived in a heavily Chinese populated area in San Francisco until the age 16 when he moved to North Adams, Massachusetts to work at a shoe factory. She converted him to Christianity, and helped him become an American Citizen in Lue had been advised to move to a warmer climate due to his recent contraction of tuberculosis.

Fannie recommended relocation to DeLand, Florida, where she and her sister owned land. Settling in DeLand, he began citrus farming, and worked on improving the varieties of orange trees and grapefruit trees which grew there.

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He wanted an orange that was able to endure cold weather and which was bright and sweet. In , he developed such an orange. It is called the Lue Gim Gong orange, and is grown in Florida today. He also produced a cold-tolerant grapefruit that was slower to drop. Lue died on June 3, , in DeLand. Henry A. Sign in.