Gordon K. Chapman: Protestant Church Commission for Japanese Service 1941-1947

Hawes, Hampton B., Sr., 1888-1976

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Rev. Hampton B. Hawes, Sr. was born on August 1, 1888 in Georgia. After graduating from Fisk University and Lincoln University Theological Seminary, he became pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church from 1912 until 1958. He married Gertrude Holman, a pianist and daughter of the previous pastor, in 1914. Among their children was the jazz pianist Hampton Hawes (1928-1977). Hawes Sr. became a leader in state and local Presbyterian organizations, and was active in causes including the adoption...

Smith, Frank Herron, 1879-1965

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Dr. Frank Herron Smith was born in Illinois in 1879, son of a physician and a school teacher. After theological training, he left the U.S. in 1905 to begin his work abroad as a Methodist missionary, establishing churches in Japan and later Korea. In 1926, Frank Herron Smith and family returned to the U.S. where he served as the superintendent of the Pacific Japanese (Methodist) Mission. He was also a strong advocate for the fair treatment of Japanese American internees both while in...

Burnett, Clyde J.

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Cobb, John B.

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John B. Cobb, Jr. (1925- ) is an American United Methodist theologian known for his work in the development of process theology and in integrating Alfred North Whitehead's metaphysics into Christianity, and for his interest in social justice. He taught for more than thirty years in the Claremont School of Theology at Claremont College. From the guide to the John Cobb Papers, before 1971, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Fisher, Galen Merriam, 1873-1955

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Unoura, Kijiro

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Sugioka, James

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Bovenkerk, Henry George, 1904-

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Reifsnider, Charles S.

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Hannaford, Howard Dunlop, 1887-1973.

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Chapman, Gordon K.

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Biography/Administrative History The organization was set up in response to Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-American citizens and aliens evacuated from the U.S. West Coast and relocated to centers in the interior. It was first named the Western Area Protestant Church Commission for Wartime Japanese Service. The majority of the members were Protestant ministers who had served as missionaries in Japan for considerable amounts of time...

French, Holland

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Long, Ward Willis, 1880-

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Evans, Elizabeth M.

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Noble, Douglas W.

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Gillett, Clarence S.

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Gillett graduated from Union Seminary and received a doctorate in education from Columbia Univ.; he served as a missionary in Japan for 20 years, returning to the US shortly before WWII; served as Congregational minister for a Japanese congregation in Santa Maria, CA; in March 1942 he became executive secretary of a new committee set up by Congregational churches to aid Japanese members who were being relocated; the committee was originally known as Congregational Christian Committee for Work wi...

Wickizer, Willard M., 1899-1974.

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Fisher, Royal H.

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