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: Shigemi Yoshiro "Samuel" "Sam" Hasse; He was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He immigrated to the United States at the age of twelve, around 1900. He lived in Los Angeles before moving to Ogden, Utah, where he had a noodle house. He also worked on the railroad and prospected near Silverton, Colorado, where he established a mine. He married Eula Belle Schaublin in Delta, Colorado on October 16, 1916. They bought a 360 acre farm on the Montrose/Delta County line around 1924. They grew beets, corn, onions, and grains. US Census records show that they farmed on Garnet Mesa, and Eula Belle states that they farmed in Delta County until 1931. They lost their farm in 1931, during the Depression, because they had cosigned on bank loans for friends, and the loans were not repaid. They moved to Brighton for one year, to the area north of Fruita for three years, farmed in Grand Junction’s Third Fruitridge from 1934 to 1938, and then settled on 40 acres in the Fruitvale area. He worked as a farmer and sometimes as a carpenter. They had seven or eight children. He died at the age of fifty-four and is buried with his wife in Grand Junction’s Orchard Mesa Cemetery.

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