Felimon Laga
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content: Filipino Agricultural Workers Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical
content: Felimon V. Laga was born on March 11, 1900 in Bohol Province, Philippines. According to a California passenger and crew list he arrived at the port of San Francisco, California from Honolulu, Hawai'i on December 2, 1923. By 1930, Laga was still a resident of San Francisco and employed as a porter in a hospital according to the United States census. Little is known about his educational background. Laga shared living quarters with six other men as a roomer on 427 Stockton Street.  On June 27, 1931, Felimon Laga passed away at the age of thirty-one and was buried at Park View Cemetery in Manteca, San Joaquin County, California.

Sources:

Ancestry.com. California, United States, Death Index, 1905-1939 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Incorporated, 2013. Original data: California Department of Health and Welfare. California Vital Records-Vital search (www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com). The Vitalsearch Company Worldwide, Incorporated, Pleasanton, California.

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.

Year: 1930; Census Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 0403; FHL microfilm: 2339945

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
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content: 1922-1923, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1515, Series 11
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content: Archival materials
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content: Contains correspondence dating from the early 1920s.  These letters were written mostly in Visayan by family members and friends of Felimon Laga in Bohol, Philippines, and sent to Felimon in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Prime correspondents are D. Laga and F. Laga, siblings of Felimon. The document serves as a primary source for understanding local culture, traditions, and daily life in the Philippines as well as how people attempted to connect with people in another country in the 1920s. Materials are arranged in chronological order.