Reverend Eto Mamoru Papers, 1918-1991

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Reverend Eto Mamoru Papers, 1918-1991

Reverend Eto Mamoru Papers, 1918-1991

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Eto Mamoru was born in 1883, and was a native of Taketa City, Ōita prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Kōbe First Middle School and Nihon Taiiku Daigaku. He fought in the Russo-Japanese War from 1904-05. He was an instructor at Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku from 1914-17 then came to the United States in 1917 to study physical education. He was employed as an agricultural laborer, farmer, and gardener before becoming a Christian lay minister of the First Japanese Nazarene Church in Pasadena, California. He was interned at Gila River, Arizona during World War II. Afterwards he was officially ordained as a Nazarene Church minister in 1946, and lived in Seabrook and Bridgeton, New Jersey from 1944-80 and finally settled in California from 1980-92. In 1990 he was one of the first Issei recipients of wartime reparation. The collection consists of diaries (1918-20,1976-89), incoming correspondence files, religious records and notes, and personal memorabilia, including tapes of Sunday sermons by the Reverend Eto Mamoru. Portions of the collection are in Japanese.

15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.