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

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

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Collection contains correspondence documenting the work of the Commission on behalf of the Japanese and Japanese-American Protestant clergy and lay people interned in U.S. relocation centers during World War II. The collection includes correspondence with those individual clergy, denominational headquarters or committees, and individual church congregations assisting in the work.

1 box; 1 linear foot.

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7641639

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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Cobb, John, 1749?-

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American missionary in Japan. From the description of John B. Cobb letters, 1946-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870044 ...

Burnett, Clyde J.

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French, Holland

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Unoura, Kijiro.

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Noble, Douglas

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Chapman, Gordon K.

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Fisher, Galen Merriam, 1873-1955

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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...

Bovenkerk, Henry George, 1904-

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Hannaford, Howard Dunlop, 1887-1973.

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Sugioka, James.

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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...

Long, Ward Willis, 1880-

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Reifsnider, Charles S.

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Evans, Elizabeth M., of New Brunswick, N.J.

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Protestant Church Commission for Japanese Service.

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Gordon K. Chapman was the Executive Director of the Commission headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. He directed the work of the Commission to assist the relocation center churches to employ clergy, assist teachers and social workers to find employment positions in the camps, set up preaching missions, organize denominational conferences for ministers, coordinate denominational projects and fund raising, and coordinate other related activities. From the description of Gordon K. Chap...

Wickizer, Willard M., 1899-1974.

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Fisher, Royal H.

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