"Celebrating Chinese American's contribution to the Golden Spike Railroad"
"Celebrating Chinese American's contribution to the Golden Spike Railroad" by Marquee Mclain, © abc4.com, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 01, 2019. (News Article)
" ... Michael Kwan and Margaret Yee from the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association joined ABC4 at 4 p.m. to talk about how they're working to make sure their ancestors are recognized. ... The 2019 Golden Spike Conference will tell that story. The conference is bringing many of the world's leading experts to share what we know about the Chinese who lived, worked and sometimes, died while working on the Central Pacific Railroad and what happened to them after the railroad's completion. ... The event is May 8-11, 2019, at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown City Creek hotel. For more information, visit www.goldenspike150.org." [More]
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" ... retired Major General William Chen, the first two-star general in the U.S. Army of Chinese descent, gave a presentation on the legacy of Chinese Americans in the Science Lecture Hall at Lexington High School. ... Chen’s grandfather was a railroad worker in the Central Pacific Railroad Company ... He eventually settled in Ohio after working in the post-Civil War South."
"Margret Yee, a fourth-generation Chinese railroad worker descendant, founded the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association with ... Karen Kwan, the first and only Chinese American senator and legislator in Utah ... in 2017 to preserve, promote, and protect the contributions made by Chinese railroad workers to the U.S."
—My Story with the Golden Connection
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