[KS] Fwd: Question

[joy kim]

I am posting this message on behalf of Dr. Ken Klein, a non-member.   

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>From  kenneth klein <kklein at usc.edu> 
Date  Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:16:00 -0800 
To  Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws 
Subject  Re: The Ahn Family discussion continues--Fwd: Re: [KS] Fwd: Question 


A couple of years ago, I surveyed the 1920 US federal census for all Koreans, and this resulted in a name database which I believe is near comprehensive, both for the mainland and for Hawaii.  Since one of the fields provided in the census is date of arrival, <blank> indicates born in this country.  By sorting first by that field and then by the age field (and picking out the non-Korean spouses), I came up with the following list of early Koreans born on the US mainland:

California            Township 8 Lee, Peter                             14 M Son/135         
California            Willows                             Cho, Marie                             14 F Sister/171         
California            Los Angeles Ahn, Philip                             14 M Son/223         
California            Sacramento Lee, Wm H                             14 M Son/367         
California              Dinuba                             Oh, Howard 14 M Son/566         
California            Dinuba                             Hur, Sunda                             14 F D/682         
Washington   East Wapato Paik, Law Sun 14 M Son/1167         
California            Township 8 Lee, Frank                             15 M Son/135         
New Mexico    La Madera Cho, Helen                             15 F D/1005         
Pennsylvania Okeola Precinct Jaisohn, Muriel 16 F D/1073         
California            Dinuba                             Lee,Lilly                             17 F D/800         
Illinois            Chicago                             Young, Katherine 20 F Wife/892         
California            Riverside Mrenkim, Theodore 21 M Grandson/335 

Philip Ahn is shown here as being fourteen years old, indicating that the census-taker visited their house prior to the day he turned fifteen.  This might well be the case with some of the others as well.  Even so, the list shows several people who were born in the US prior to him, including Philip Jaisohn's daughter (who was, of course, "half Korean").  Similarly, there are Hawaiian-born Koreans older than Ethan Sungkoo Kiehm recorded in the census.

--Ken Klein
  USC East Asian Library

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