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Name: William N Chatfield
Event Date: 27 Jan 1969
Event Place: Contra Costa, California, USA
Birth Date: 22 Jan 1879
Birthplace: Illinois
Gender: Male
Mother's Name: Dole

Occupation: Business manager, salesman (Asst Mgr of Ferro Alloy Plant for Pacific Electro Metals Co., San Francisco; Oakland Bank manager)

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Joseph Holland Harrington related this story to his son Edward K Harrington, of when his sister Gustavia Aleene Harrington and her husband William Nathan Chatfield were in the Philippines: William was sent there for his work and was there when the Japanese invaded during WWII. Aleene was in the hospital with a heart attack at the time, unable to be transferred home because the doctor said she could not be moved.

When the Japanese invaded they were put under house arrest for several months until they were transferred to Santo Tomas College which was made into a prison camp in Manila in the Philippines. Each person had to stand in line to get their allotted one cup of rice per day. This was their entire allotment of food. They both became "skin and bones". Aleene was able to get some greens for her and her husband by going through the prison trash.

When the war was ending and the Americans were coming to their rescue, the Japanese put dynamite in all the rooms intending to blow up the prisoners, but the American commandos disconnected the explosives the night before it was set to explode and saved them. Amazingly, due to her sparse diet, Aleene's heart was fine when she got home.
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Source: L. Lodene Harringtin

USA Census, 1910
Name: William N Chatfield
Event Place: Goldfield, Esmeralda, Nevada
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Birthplace: Illinois
Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Household ID: 416
Page: 12
Household Gender Age Birthplace
SELF William N Chatfield M 31y Illinois
WIFE Alene Chatfield F 30y Colorado
DAU Alene Chatfield F 4y Colorado

USA Census, 1930
Name: William N Chatfield
Event Place: Berkeley, Alameda, California
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Birthplace: Illinois
Birth Year (Estimated): 1879
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts
District: 0323
Household ID: 243
Sheet Number and Letter: 9B
Line Number: 54
Affiliate Publication Number: T626, roll 111
GS Film number: 2339846
Digital Folder Number: 4532331
Image Number: 01143
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head William N Chatfield M 51 Illinois
Wife G Alleene Chatfield F 51 Colorado
Dau A Rae Chatfield F 24 Colorado

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