Hew DIN
1912 from Guangzhou, China
Gong Bow Gwun emigrated from China as a paper son and spent three weeks on Angel Island. His brother also came as a paper son named Doon Ho and they had to pretend they were not related. After Doon Ho died, Bow Gwun took over his name and “somehow the name [Doon] got changed to Din.”
(Portrait by Hannah Del Palacio, SFSU 2017)