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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S.Politicians in Japan

Index to Locations KobeKobe Municipal ForeignersCemetery TokyoAoyama Cemetery TokyoZenpuku-ji YokohamaNegishi Foreign Cemetery YokohamaYokohama Foreign GeneralCemetery Kobe MunicipalForeigners Cemetery Kobe, Japan Willard de Lamater Kingsbury (1868-1929) — also known asWillard Kingsbury — Born in San Pablo,ContraCosta County, Calif.,December18, 1868.Schoolteacher and principal;missionary;U.S. Consular Agent inYokkaichi, 1909-16.Died, fromapoplexy,in the InternationalHospital,Kobe,Japan,September27, 1929 (age60 years, 283days).Cremated;ashes interred at Kobe Municipal Foreigners Cemetery. Politicians buriedhere:     Relatives: Sonof Helen Shuler (Delamater) Kingsbury and Willard Belmont Kingsbury;married,June 23,1896, to Clara Jeanette Stanbridge; married,February12, 1909, to Sarah Martha Melinda Bakenhus; grandnephew ofWilliamJervis Hough.   See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

Edwin Dun (1848-1931) — of Yokohama,Japan;Tokyo,Japan.Born in Chillicothe,RossCounty, Ohio,July 19,1848.U.S. Minister toJapan, 1893-97; director and branch manager, InternationalOil Co.,Ltd.Died in Tokyo,Japan,May15, 1931 (age82 years, 300days).Interment at Aoyama Cemetery.

	Relatives:Nephew ofAllenGranberry Thurman.
		Political family:Allen-McCormick-Thurman-Dunfamily of Chillicothe, Ohio.
		See alsoU.S. State Dept career summary

Townsend Harris (1804-1878) — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Sandy Hill (now Hudson Falls),WashingtonCounty, N.Y.,October3, 1804.Merchant;importer;U.S. Minister toJapan, 1859.DiedFebruary25, 1878 (age73 years, 145days).Interment atGreen-WoodCemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at Zenpuku-ji.

Max David Kirjassoff (1888-1923) — also known asMax D. Kirjassoff — of Waterbury,New HavenCounty, Conn.Born in St. Petersburg,Russia,March2, 1888.U.S. Vice Consul inYokohama, as of 1916; U.S. Consul inTaihoku, as of 1917-19;Dairen, as of 1921; U.S. Consul General inYokohama, 1922-23, died in office 1923.Jewish.One of more than 100,000 people killed during the Great KantoEarthquake,probably in thecollapseof the consulate building or thefire thatfollowed, in Yokohama,Japan,September1, 1923 (age35 years, 183days).Interment at Negishi Foreign Cemetery.

Ransford Stevens Miller Jr. (1867-1932) — also known asRansford S. Miller — of Ithaca,TompkinsCounty, N.Y.Born in Ithaca,TompkinsCounty, N.Y.,October21, 1867.Chief of Division of Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department,1909-12 and 1918-19; U.S. Consul General inSeoul, as of 1914-17, as of 1920-30.Died, fromheartdisease, in GarfieldHospital,Washington,D.C.,April26, 1932 (age64 years, 188days).Cremated;ashes interred at Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery.

	Relatives: Sonof Adaline Amelia (Taber) Miller and Ransford Stevens Miller;married,August22, 1894, to Lily Murray.
		See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

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