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She registered to vote on November 8, 1911 in California following the passage of Proposition 4 in California, nine years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Clara Elizabeth (Yee Miew) Chan was born October 21, 1886, the daughter of the Methodist Review Chan Honorary Fun (Chan Honorary Fan) and Ow Muck Gay.
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Chan Honorary Fun was the pastor of the Chinese Community Methodist Church of Oakland in Oakland Chinatown from 1900 to 1909. Clara was born in Portland and died October 5, 1993 in Alameda, California and is interred in Oakland.