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NameFirst: Ozaki ~Henry Y.
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Children: Raymond, Wayne
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Spouse2Name: Ivy E. Whitcomb
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OriginalNotes: WWI Registration Card: (ancestry.com): Henry Yoshinobu Ozaki, 121 W. Wayne St., Ft. Wayne. Age 32. born January 31, 1886, Oriental, Alien, b. Japan. Photographer, Prop. Ozaki Studio

Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States; S.S. Arizona Maru, sailing from Yokohama, Japan
http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=8945&iid=WAM1383_140-0796&fn=Yoshinobu+Henry&ln=Ozaki&st=d&ssrc=&pid=850910 [viewed 13 March 2011]
Seattle Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957, September 1928, ship Arizona Maru
Yoshinobu [handwritten Henry] Ozaki, age 42 yr. 7 mo., photographer, b. Shimaneken (city), Japan, Immigration Visa #390894 issued in Washington DC on 12 June 1928;  [travelling with Sue Ozaki, b. in same town, housewife, age 38 yr. 8 mo.;  Wayne Ozaki, age 5 yr. 7 mo., b. Fort Wayne, Ind.; last permanent residence for all three: Fort Wayne, Indiana

1930 Census: Allen County, Fort Wayne, Wayne Twp.
2432 S. Calhoun St.
Henry Y. Ozaki, 44, married, b. Japan, Japanese, photographer, own studio
citizenship: 1907 (naturalized?); wife, son, and 2 lodgers live with him; one of the lodgers was b. in Hawaii and worked as photographer. Names hard to read.

Directory of Fort Wayne Photographers, by John D. Beatty
Ozaki, Henry Yoshinobu. 1917-1930+. Photographs. Ozaki was born about 1886 in Japan and immigrated to the United States in 1907. A highly-skilled photographer, he went to work for Charles Miner and later took over the Miner Studio at 121 West Wayne Street at Miner's death. He later changed the name of the studio to his own in 1917. In 1921, Joseph Tsurumi is listed in the Fort Wayne Directory as the proprietor of the studio, but by 1922, Ozaki had returned. In 1923, he moved the studio to 115 West Wayne and then in 1929 moved it again to 2426 South Calhoun, where he worked in 1930. Ozaki later left the city and died at an unknown location, possibly in the 1940s. His only son, Wayne Noburu Ozaki, later relinquished claim to real property in 1943 under the terms of his guardianship. [Sources: Fort Wayne City Directories, 1916-1930; 1930 U. S. Census, Allen County, Indiana, Fort Wayne, E.D. 81, p. 6A.]

Ancestry.com, Ozaki Family Tree maintained by WGMichell (viewed Sept. 9, 2017)
Lists marriage dates, filed for divorce for Ivy E. Whitcomb on Jan. 6, 1920 in Fort Wayne.
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Name: H. Y. Ozaki
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OriginalSource: Grabill Review (Grabill, Indiana), November 15, 1913, p. 4
Ad: Photographs as XMAS Gifts. Our photographs are permanent. Ozaki Studio, Successor to Miner. 121 W. Wayne Street, Fort Wayne, Ind. We pay your car fare to Fort Wayne.

1916-17 Ind. State Gaz., p. 1666, H. Y. Ozaki, 121 W. Wayne

The Cauldron, 1916 (yearbook for Fort Wayne High and Manual Training School)
Go to the Ozaki Studio for First class Photos (Successor to Miner), H. Y. Ozaki, Proprietor, 121 W. Wayne Street

The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel, 11 Aug. 1919
City Briefs: First Vacation in Years--H. Y. Ozaki the photographer will leave Tuesday morning for Niagara Falls for the first vacation he has taken in ten years. During his absence his studio will be remodeled. [no address listed, but this is likely the 121 W. Wayne location]

Indiana State Firemen's Association Convention Held at Fort Wayne, Aug. 10, 11, 12, 1920 [booklet], ad: "Personality in the Photographs" Ozaki Studio, 121 W. Wayne St.

Abel's Photographic Weekly, 20 May 1922, p. 555
The Ozaki Studio, Fort Wayne, Ind., is shortly to move to larger quarters. The second and third floors of the building at 115 W. Wayne Street have been taken over and are being remodeled.

Directory of Fort Wayne Photographers, by John D. Beatty
Ozaki, Henry Yoshinobu. 1917-1930+. Photographs. Ozaki was born about 1886 in Japan and immigrated to the United States in 1907. A highly-skilled photographer, he went to work for Charles Miner and later took over the Miner Studio at 121 West Wayne Street at Miner's death. He later changed the name of the studio to his own in 1917. In 1921, Joseph Tsurumi is listed in the Fort Wayne Directory as the proprietor of the studio, but by 1922, Ozaki had returned. In 1923, he moved the studio to 115 West Wayne and then in 1929 moved it again to 2426 South Calhoun, where he worked in 1930. Ozaki later left the city and died at an unknown location, possibly in the 1940s. His only son, Wayne Noburu Ozaki, later relinquished claim to real property in 1943 under the terms of his guardianship. [Sources: Fort Wayne City Directories, 1916-1930; 1930 U. S. Census, Allen County, Indiana, Fort Wayne, E.D. 81, p. 6A.]
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StudioName: Charles W. Miner
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Name: Charles W. Miner
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OriginalSource: 1915 Polk's Fort Wayne City Directory, p. 776, Miner's Studio, H J Ozaki propr, 121 W Wayne
Miner, Estella, photogr, b. 248 Douglas av. [not sure if she continued with Ozaki Studio]

[Note: Formerly Charles W. Miner's studio. Miner died in 1912.]

Directory of Fort Wayne Photographers, by John D. Beatty
Ozaki, Henry Yoshinobu. 1917-1930+. Photographs. Ozaki was born about 1886 in Japan and immigrated to the United States in 1907. A highly-skilled photographer, he went to work for Charles Miner and later took over the Miner Studio at 121 West Wayne Street at Miner's death. He later changed the name of the studio to his own in 1917. In 1921, Joseph Tsurumi is listed in the Fort Wayne Directory as the proprietor of the studio, but by 1922, Ozaki had returned. In 1923, he moved the studio to 115 West Wayne and then in 1929 moved it again to 2426 South Calhoun, where he worked in 1930. Ozaki later left the city and died at an unknown location, possibly in the 1940s. His only son, Wayne Noburu Ozaki, later relinquished claim to real property in 1943 under the terms of his guardianship. [Sources: Fort Wayne City Directories, 1916-1930; 1930 U. S. Census, Allen County, Indiana, Fort Wayne, E.D. 81, p. 6A.]

Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel, 3 Aug. 1916
Auto Hurts Japanese Boy: Raymond Ozaki, son of H. Y. Osaki, photographer, was injured about the back, head and arms, Wed. afternoon when bicycle collided with auto on Fairfield ave. [article continues]
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OriginalSource: Abel's Photographic Weekly, 20 May 1922, p. 555
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OriginalSource: 1928-29 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer, p. 1618

Posted on "You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember." Facebook page on 20 July 2016 by Greg Mitchell (with photo): "This former photography studio at 2432 South Calhoun Street originally was owned and operated by Henry Y. Ozaki who also had a studio downtown on West Wayne Street (where Midtown Crossing is now). [It's interesting to know Fort Wayne had an early Japenese immigrant]. In the late 1930s, Richard Barner acquired the studio and operated it 20 plus years. I had heard several years ago an antque dealer acquired photo plates, negatives, and photos which were taken by Ozaki and Barner. He was interested in selling them and other things from the studio. The genealogy department at the library was interested in acquiring them, but I don't remember if they ever did get them. Perhaps someone at the library knows. I think the idea was to somehow set up a system to share photos that were taken at this studio with those interested in getting copies for their family history. This photo was taken on 16 Jun 2016." (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1123376984368191&set=gm.1092613894162287&type=3&theater)

Directory of Fort Wayne Photographers, by John D. Beatty
Ozaki, Henry Yoshinobu. 1917-1930+. Photographs. Ozaki was born about 1886 in Japan and immigrated to the United States in 1907. A highly-skilled photographer, he went to work for Charles Miner and later took over the Miner Studio at 121 West Wayne Street at Miner's death. He later changed the name of the studio to his own in 1917. In 1921, Joseph Tsurumi is listed in the Fort Wayne Directory as the proprietor of the studio, but by 1922, Ozaki had returned. In 1923, he moved the studio to 115 West Wayne and then in 1929 moved it again to 2426 South Calhoun, where he worked in 1930. Ozaki later left the city and died at an unknown location, possibly in the 1940s. His only son, Wayne Noburu Ozaki, later relinquished claim to real property in 1943 under the terms of his guardianship. [Sources: Fort Wayne City Directories, 1916-1930; 1930 U. S. Census, Allen County, Indiana, Fort Wayne, E.D. 81, p. 6A.]
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