Cesario Hotora Comparativo
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content: Filipino Agricultural Workers Collection
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content: Cesario H. Comparativo was born on February 25, 1906, in Tubigon, Bohol, Philippines. Little information exists about Comparativo's early life except that his education was completed at the eighth-grade level. At the age of twenty-two, Comparativo traveled from Manila aboard the President Cleveland, reaching Honolulu, Hawai'i on December 22, 1924. Like many Filipino immigrants, he sought employment in Hawaii's sugar plantations.  Comparativo departed Honolulu on the S.S. President Taft on August 20, 1925, and arrived in San Francisco, California shortly thereafter. Settling in northern California, Comparativo likely found employment in the San Joaquin Delta region. According to the 1930 United States census, he was a farm laborer and resided with fellow Filipino men on Georgina Slough Road in Sacramento, California. By 1940, Comparativo had relocated to San Joaquin and was employed as a field laborer working seventy hours per week with a salary of $800.00 per year. He registered for the World War II draft on October 16, 1940, and served in the United States Navy until his honorable discharge on November 1, 1945. In the post-military years, Comparativo married Erma E. Knight on June 6, 1955, as documented in the California Marriage Index. By 1958 a California city directory documented that the couple was no longer living together. City directories for 1970, 1972, and 1974 document a second marriage to a woman Angelina Tan. Cesario H. Comparativo passed away on October 4, 1990, at the age of eighty-four.

Sources:

Ancestry.com. United States, City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Incorporated, 2011.

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Ancestry.com. United States, Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2 [database on-line]. Lehi, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Incorporated, 2010.

Original Data: Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings. 

Year: 1930; Census Place: Georgiana, Sacramento, California; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0023; FHL microfilm: 2339920

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, DC; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving At Honolulu, Hawai'i, Compiled 02/13/1900-12/30/1953; NAI Number: A3422; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: RG 85

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, DC; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving At Honolulu, Hawai'i, Compiled 02/13/1900-12/30/1953; NAI Number: A4156; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: RG 85

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, DC; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Departing From Honolulu, Hawai'i, Compiled 06/1900-11/1954; NAI Number: A3510; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: RG 85

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, DC; Index to Filipino Passengers Arriving at Honolulu, Hawai'i, circa 1900-circa 1952; Microfilm Series: A3407; Microfilm Roll: 6
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content: 1925-1945, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.1515, Series 6
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content: Archival materials
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content: Includes material relating to the life of Comparativo in Stockton, California from 1925-1947.  Materials include a 1940 payroll check which documents Comparativo's work history and earnings.  Membership materials, including some photographs, from the Legionarios del Trabajo and the American Federation of Labor are also found among these materials.  There is also a war department publication about civilian life after military service and a book about health. In addition, there is information relating to the care and maintenance of an automobile.  These materials provide insight into wage earnings, social activities, and the transitions between civilian and military life. Materials are arranged in chronological order.