Both Jin Kee and Jin Mun worked for a time in the Sacramento home of Leland and Jane Stanford. The couple attempted to adopt Jin Mun.
Moy Gop Jung, a cousin of the Moy brothers, tangled with Jin Mun, whom he accused of swindling him.
When Jin Fuey and his wife left New York for a country estate in New Jersey, their move made headlines.
Jin Kee became a bona fide U.S. citizen, but his naturalization was revoked as a consequence of Chinese exclusion legislation.
Josephine Moy, Jin Fuey's adopted daughter, had a successful career in Vaudeville and cinema as "The Lady Tsen Mei." But her resumé was a work of fiction.
Jin Fuey was the respondent in one Supreme Court case that bears his name and the petitioner in another. The cases helped shape early federal efforts to regulate narcotics.
Chapter II: The Road to Exclusion
Chapter IV: California Dreaming
Chapter V: Another Good Man Gone Wrong
Chapter VI: He Stands High Among His Countrymen
Chapter VII: Moy Jin Mun Will Furnish The Corpse
Chapter VIII: A Thorough American
Chapter IX: “I Created Enmity Among Our Own Countrymen”
Chapter X: Disaster and Rebuilding
Chapter XI: Meet Me At The Fair
Chapter XII: Leading the Fight
Chapter XIII: I Deem It To Be A Lesson
Chapter XIV: Less Than Savory Characters
In which Jin Fuey is tried in Boston for allegedly smuggling Chinese into the United States.
Chapter XV: Reversal of Fortune I
Chapter XVI: Reversal of Fortune II
Chapter XVII: Many Impeachable Practices
Chapter XVIII: The Chinese Nightingale
Chapter XIX: The Man Who Took the Teeth out of the Drug Act
In which Jin Fuey serves nearly two years in the Federal penitentiary, is released and dies.
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