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unusual facts about Joseph K. Yamagiwa


Joseph K. Yamagiwa

From 1942–1946 Yamagiwa held the position of Director of Army Military Intelligence Japanese school located at Ann Arbor and the position Supervisor of the Language Program for the Army Specialized Training Program and the Civil Affairs Training School from 1943 until 1945.


Joseph K. Edgerton

Edgerton also served as president of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad and the Ohio Railroad, which were constructed to connect major cities of the Midwest, especially the booming industrial city of Chicago, through which many natural resources flowed to the East.

In 1854 he became a member of the board of directors for the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, and later was selected as its president.

Joseph K. Gill

A native of England, he came to the United States with his parents and settled in Oregon where he managed a bookstore in Salem.

Joseph K. Manning House

The Joseph K. Manning House is a historic house at 35–37 Forest Street in Medford, Massachusetts.

Joseph K. Spiers

He received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University (where he was initiated into Phi Kappa Tau fraternity) and a master of science degree in aerospace engineering through the Air Force Institute of Technology program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1967.

William Ludwig Detmold

During the war, he introduced a knife and fork for one-handed men, which was put by Surgeon General Barnes on the supply list, under the name of “Detmold's knife.” In 1884, he was a founder and the first president of the New York County Medical Association, and at one time he was president of the Medical Relief Fund for Widows and Orphans.


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