William AXLING

aka Uiriamu Akisuringu

author, missionary, teacher, translator

b. August 9, 1873
Omaha, Nebraska, USA

m. 1901
Lucinda Walker BURROWS
d. Jan 7, 1960

d. February 24, 1963
Alhambra, California, USA, age: 89
interment: Gothenburg Cemetery,
Gothenburg, Dawson, Nebraska

parents:

N. E. AXLING, clergyman
Karin WICKLUND

education:

University of Nebraska, B.A., 1898
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 1901
Grand Island College, Nebraska, D.D.

occupation:

lecturer on Japan
principal, School of Japanese Language and Culture

membership:

Asiatic Society
Assn. Concordia
Japan-America Assn.
Pan-Pacific

misc.:

honorary secretary, National Christian Council of Japan (1903)
founder Misaki Tabernacle, Tokyo (1908)
POW (1941-43)
first honorary citizen of Tokyo (Oct 1954)

religion:

Baptist

residence:

Oakland, Nebraska
Gothenburg, Nebraska
1898 => Japan
Northern Japan (1901-06)
1903 Sendai => Morioka
86 Soto Kaga No-koji, Morioka, Japan (1906)
Tokyo (1908)
20 Tsukiji, Tokyo (1912)
Fukagawa Kaikwan (1923)
5 Shirakawa-cho 2-chome, Fukagawa-ku, Tokyo (1938)
1943 => USA
1946 => Japan
1955 => USA


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