54. Chemo Dalal's Ancestry

I was curious about Dalal's Arabic ancestry and this is what I found:

Benedict Chuaqui Kettlun was born in 1895 in Homs, Syria, then part of the Ottoman Empire.  He came from humble beginnings.  The Arabs under Turkish rule were poor.  He emigrated with his family to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1908, the year of the Young Turk revolution.   But the family decided to move on further to Chile.  This meant going across the Andes on the backs of mules.  Benedict was a travelling salesman for a while selling goods from door to door.  His business prospered to the point that he had a silk factory in the garment district of Santiago.  But more important than that, he was heavily involved in the Arab community and culture, was a volunteer firefighter, was a member of the Lodge, wrote several books and held famous monthly meals at a prominent Santiago hotel, the Hotel Crillon.  His original Arabic name was Yamil Chuaqui.  After his death in Santiago in 1970, the family was uprooted again and they lost everything in the years that followed.

Even though I can not confirm this 100%, I am pretty confident that the above information is about Dalal's father.  If it is, he was a very prolific man because Dalal had 8 siblings!  What a history!

Source:  second.wiki     Benedict Chuaqui Kettlun

Next Saturday I will write about my appointment with the surgeon after my colonoscopy (It follows the March 17 #39 post.)   Till then!  Take care!