Mamoru, Eto, 1883-1992.

Eto Mamoru was born in 1883, and was a native of Taketa City, Ōita prefecture in Japan; graduated from Kōbe First Middle School and Nihon Taiiku Daigaku; fought in Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05; was baptized as a Christian in Japan; instructor, Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku, 1914-17; came to the United States in 1917 to study physical education; was employed as an agricultural laborer, farmer, and gardener before becoming a Christian lay minister of the First Japanese Nazarene Church in Pasadena, CA; was interned at Gila River, AZ during World War II; officially ordained as a Nazarene Church minister in 1946, and lived in Seabrook and Bridgeton, NJ from 1944-80; was naturalized in 1955; lived in CA, 1980-92; became one of the first Issei recipients of wartime reparation, in 1990; he died in 1992.

From the description of Papers, 1918-1991. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39451922

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