Brief Life History of Tokuyoshi
When Tokuyoshi Awamura was born on 1 May 1898, in Hiroshima-ken, Japan, his father, Fusakichi Awamura, was 33 and his mother, Machi Tabuchi, was 30. He married Mitsu Sugiyama on 28 November 1920, in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States in 1949 and lived in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, United States in 1920 and Representative District 5, Oahu, Hawaii, United States in 1940. He died on 26 December 1984, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.
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Sources (16)
- Tokuyoshi Awamura in household of Moku Shinohara, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Tokuyoshi Awamura - Church record: birth-name: Tokuyoshi Awamura
- Tokuyoshi Awamura, "Hawaii, Board of Health, Marriage Record Indexes, 1909-1989"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1910
Japan annexes Korea after three years of fighting. Japan is now one of the world's great powers.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Japanese Hiroshi, Masako, Masao, Masaru, Seiji, Shigemasa, Shoji, Toshio, Toyo, Haruo, Hiroaki, Katsumi.
Japanese: written 川村 ‘river village’. It is found throughout Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. One family of samurai is from Satsuma (now Kagoshima prefecture). Another version written 河邑 is found in west-central Japan.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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