Look Tin Eli

Look Tin Eli (d. 1919) was a Chinese businessman from Mendocino, California, the first Chinese person to graduate from Mendocino High School. He became a businessman in San Francisco, where he founded the Bank of Canton. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he was one of a group of merchants who hired American architects to rebuild San Francisco's Chinatown in a stereotypical "Oriental" style in order to promote tourism and social change. His brother, Lee Eli, was also a wealthy banker.