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Personal data Adriana M KUYPER 

• Alternative names: Anna Adriana Hubertina Maria Verschuuren de KUYPER, A. M. KUYPER, Adariana M KUYPER
• She was born on April 3, 1872 in Pella, Sioux, Iowa, USA.Sources 4, 5
• Alternative: She was born on March 9, 1873.Source 6
• Alternative: She was born on September 3, 1927.Source 1
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1872 in Iowa.Source 2
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1872 in Iowa.Source 3
• Profession: Principal of the Ferris Girls Seminary.
• Resident:
• in the year 1900: Lake Prairie, Marion, Iowa.Source 4
• New York, New York.Source 1
• in the year 1880: Pella, Marion, Iowa, USA.Source 2
• in the year 1910: Pella Ward 2, Marion, Iowa.Source 3
• (Arrival) in the year 1911 in San Francisco, California.Source 5
• (Departure) in Hong Kong, China.Source 5
• (Arrival) in New York.Source 1
• She died on September 1, 1923 in Yokohomo, Japan, she was 51 years old.Source 6

  Kanto Earthquake

• A child of Hugo KUYPER and Jacoba BETTEN

Household of Adriana M KUYPER

Notes about Adriana M KUYPER

Ms. Kuyper died in the massive Kanto earthquake. She was pinned in one of the collapsed school buildings. Other teachers and staff tried to rescue her but were unable to reach her before the fires came. Her last words were, “Go. It is God’s will.” From her supreme sacrifice the school received its motto, “For others,” which is drawnfrom Philippians 2:4. The fact that the school still escorts every incoming class to this site says something profound. There is yet much hope for the future of the mission here. REF: RCA Mission Update, 2007
Description: On September 1, 1923 two minutes before noon, a devastating earthquake hit the densely populated area of Tokyo and Yokohama. The shocks reached peaks of 7.9 on the Richter scale. The damages caused by the fires that immediately broke out and raged for three days, were by far worse than those caused by the earthquake itself. When the first shocks hit, many charcoal cooking stoves were in use for the preparation of the lunch meal. And light to strong winds made the fires spread within a few minutes in Tokyo and Yokohama.

The death toll was terrible. 140,000 people lost their lives - 58,000 of them in Tokyo. The typical Japanese houses were light buildings with wooden tile roofs and fires had always been a major threat in Japanese cities. Houses were built close to each other with hardly any empty space between them. People had no place to escape and most victims suffocated or burned in the fires.

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