Sam (Weixi) Chang (1886-1988) was born in Kaiping County, Guangdong Province, China and immigrated to the United States in 1915. Educated at the Guangdong Police Academy, he served as a senior officer of the Guangzhou Police Bureau and visited the United States in 1915 with the aim of studying American policing practices. He ultimately remained in the United States to manage an asparagus farm that his father had invested in, becoming a prominent farmer in the San Fernando Valley of southern California. He was married to Zhiyuan Cen (1885-1984), and was the father of Tennyson (Tingxun) Chang (1910-2000), Constance (Yuhua) Chang (1912-), Estelle (Yuchu) Chang (1925-2001), and Joyce (Yuzai) Chang (1928-).

Elbert (Weiying) Chung (1896-1986) was born in China and immigrated to the United States in 1907. After attending high school in Los Angeles, he graduated from Georgetown University Medical School. He continued on to work for the Beijing Union Medical College and the Central Hospital of the Chinese government, as well as to open his own practice in Shanghai and participate in Red Cross activities during the 1937 Japanese attack on Shanghai. In 1938, he immigrated back to the United States with his wife and three daughters, and opened a medical office in the United States, where he remained until his death.

Tennyson (Tingxun) Chang (1910-2000) was born in China and immigrated to the United States in 1929. After attending Nankai School in Tianjin, he earned his BA from the University of Southern California, MA from Columbia University, and PhD from Georgetown University. Active in nationalistic efforts during World War II, he was involved in student activism for organizations like United China Relief and the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. He continued on to work as a diplomat for the General Consulate of the Chinese Nationalist government in Nicaragua and the China Institute in America. He also held academic appointments at the University of Colorado in Boulder, as a professor of international relations at Georgetown University, and as a professor of Asian studies at Saint Petersburg University in Tampa, Florida. He married Xi-en Ying in 1938.

Constance (Yuhua) Chang (1912-) was born in China and first arrived in the United States in 1923. She returned to China in 1927 for her high school and college education at Nankai School in Tianjin and Yenching University in Beijing, then pursued graduate studies at Columbia University starting in 1937. She married Tang Mingzhao, an activist with the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance in New York, co-founder of the China Daily News, and undersecretary general for political affairs and decolonization in the United Nations from 1972 to 1979.

Estelle (Yuchu) Chang (1925-2001). She served in United States military forces during World War II. She married Patrick Wong.

Joyce (Yuzai) Chang (1928-). She married William Koe.