Joseph Heco Collection 1852-1991

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Joseph Heco Collection 1852-1991

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Papers of Japanese-American businessman and newspaper publisher Joseph Heco (Hikozo Hamada). Includes letters, manuscripts, memorabilia, photographs, clippings. Also later printed material about Heco, including books, serials, and Joseph Heco Memorial Society newsletters.

2.5 linear ft.

eng,

jpn,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6361830

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Heco, Joseph, 1837-1897

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Joseph Heco (1837-1897) was a Japanese-American journalist and newspaperman. Hikozo Hamada, the farmer's son who would become Joseph Heco, was born in 1837, toward the end of the Tokugawa Era, a time of the closing of Japan to foreign influence. A few years after his father's death, his mother remarried. Fortunately the fatherless boy had been accepted to a temple school for training and education, an unusual occurrence for someone of his social class. His stepfather, a ...

Hamada, Hikozo, 1837-1897

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