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Nose Family

The elder Mr. Nose left Fukuoka, Japan in 1907 and settled first on Oahu, Hawaii where he worked in a candy store, later coming to California to work in the pear orchards.

The elder Mr. Nose left Fukuoka, Japan in 1907 and settled first on Oahu, Hawaii where he worked in a candy store. When he came to the mainland and to Calif. he settled first on Agnew and worked as a laborer in the pear orchards of Brecker Ranch. In 1920 he moved his family to the Santa Clara area where he worked as a sharecropper on Bowers Ranch, growing berries and vegetables. Between 1913 and 1917 three children were born unto the Nose family, a son Kay, 1913, a daughter, Natsue in 1913 and a second Arnold, in 1917...