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His father had also lost a bitter legal battle for control of various family businesses before his death. His father used to manage the family's various sawmills such as Alaska Lumber Co. Wilson Lee Flores' entrepreneurial ancestors have a long history of political activism and social idealism which inspire his writings. His forebears were among the overseas Chinese who supported Dr.

His paternal great-great-grandfather Dy Han Kia was the third-generation overseas Chinese of his clan to sojourn from China's Fujian province to then Spanish-ruled Philippines, but it was Dy Han Kia who became a lumber merchant with five companies in 19th century Manila and he was a philanthropist.

Wilson Lee Flores is a multi-awarded Philippine writer, entrepreneur, educator, poet, philanthropist, and political-economic analyst.

In the early 20th century, Lee Tay sent his cousins to manage new affiliate lumber enterprises in Sta. Dy Hoc Siu was also the sawmill production manager of the grandfather and father of Wilson Lee Flores, and there is now a memorial to him and nine other martyrs built by the Chinese community inside the Manila Chinese Cemetery. His grandfather's cousin and close friend was the activist tycoon Dee C.

Dee C. Chuan once led the Chinese minority in a legal battle case known as Yu Cong Eng versus Trinidad opposing a discriminatory law promulgated by Congress called the Bookkeping Act, which was won in a U. Taft had also served as the first civil governor of the colonial government of the Philippine Islands and also as former United States President.

A younger brother of Flores' great-grandfather, Dee Tian, was also an activist tycoon and Buddhist philanthropist. Wilson Lee Flores' late mother, top educator Mary C. She had served as outstanding principal and elementary school teacher in numerous schools throughout the Philippines, and also before in Fujian province, southeastern China.

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