Juan Campoco Pascual
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content: Filipino Agricultural Workers Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical
content: Juan Campoco Pascual was born on August 5, 1904, in Agkawayan, Philippines. Little is known about his early life before his departure to the United States. According to a California passenger and crew list, Pascual departed the Philippines, aboard the S. S. Ecuador on July 9, 1919. A month later, he arrived at the port of San Francisco, California. In 1940, Pascual was employed as a farm laborer, earning modest wages, and sharing a household with two other lodgers. On February 14, 1942, weighing in at one hundred and forty-five pounds and with tattoos on both arms he registered for the United States draft, stating that he worked at Chester Chisholm Ranch.  Juan Campoco Pascual passed away on May 22, 1988, at the age of eighty-four and was laid to rest in Turlock Memorial Park in Stanislaus County, California.


*Conflicting birth dates: US World War II Draft Registration Card, August 5, 1904. California Death Index, July 10, 1905.

Sources:

National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; WWII Draft Registration Cards For California, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 1382

Year: 1940; Census Place: Santa Barbara, California; Roll: m-t0627-00334; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 42-69

The National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, DC; Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Francisco, California; NAI Number: 4498993; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85

Ancestry.com. United States, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Incorporated, 2012. Original data: Find a Grave. Find a Grave®. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936, 1948, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1515, Series 17
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content: Archival materials
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content: Contains letters dating from 1936 and 1948, primarily written in Visayan by Angel and Dalmacio Pascual in Agkawayan, Philippines, and sent to Juan Pascual in Stockton, California. The materials do not provide any information regarding Juan's personal details. Instead, they document Juan's time residing in Stockton, California. The series serves as a primary source for understanding how people attempted to stay connected to their communities in other countries during the 1930s and 1940s.