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- Ah_Ken abstract "Ah Ken (fl. 1858-1896) was a Chinese American businessman and popular figure in Chinatown, Manhattan during the mid-to late 19th century. The first man to permanently immigrate to Chinatown, although Quimbo Appo is claimed to have arrived in the area during the 1840s, Ah Ken resided on Mott Street and eventually founded a successful cigar store on Park Row. He first arrived in New York around 1858 where he was "probably one of those Chinese mentioned in gossip of the sixties as peddling 'awful' cigars at three cents apiece from little stands along the City Hall park fence - offering a paper spill and a tiny oil lamp as a lighter" according to author Alvin Harlow in Old Bowery Days: The Chronicles of a Famous Street (1931).Later immigrants would similarly find work as "cigar men" or carrying billboards and Ah Ken's particular success encouraged cigar makers William Longford, John Occoo and John Ava to also ply their trade in Chinatown eventually forming a monopoly on the cigar trade. It has been speculated that it may have been Ah Ken who kept a small boarding house on lower Mott Street and rented out bunks to the first Chinese immigrants to arrive in Chinatown. It was with the profits he earned as a landlord, earning an average of $100 a month, that he was able to open his Park Row smoke shop around which modern-day Chinatown would grow.".
- Ah_Ken alias "Ah Kam".
- Ah_Ken birthDate "1858".
- Ah_Ken birthPlace China.
- Ah_Ken birthPlace Guangzhou.
- Ah_Ken birthYear "1858".
- Ah_Ken deathDate "1896".
- Ah_Ken deathYear "1896".
- Ah_Ken knownFor Chinatown,_Manhattan.
- Ah_Ken knownFor Chinese_American.
- Ah_Ken nationality Chinese_American.
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- Ah_Ken alternativeNames "Ah Kam".
- Ah_Ken birthPlace China.
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- Ah_Ken dateOfBirth "1858".
- Ah_Ken dateOfDeath "1896".
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- Ah_Ken knownFor "First Chinese American to settle in Chinatown.".
- Ah_Ken name "Ah Ken".
- Ah_Ken nationality Chinese_American.
- Ah_Ken occupation "Businessman".
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- Ah_Ken placeOfBirth "Canton, China".
- Ah_Ken shortDescription "Chinese-American businessman and first permanent settler of Chinatown.".
- Ah_Ken description "Chinese-American businessman and first permanent settler of Chinatown.".
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- Ah_Ken comment "Ah Ken (fl. 1858-1896) was a Chinese American businessman and popular figure in Chinatown, Manhattan during the mid-to late 19th century. The first man to permanently immigrate to Chinatown, although Quimbo Appo is claimed to have arrived in the area during the 1840s, Ah Ken resided on Mott Street and eventually founded a successful cigar store on Park Row.".
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- Ah_Ken name "Ah Ken".