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As a young Japanese -American living in California in the early 1940's, Carol Fumiye Ishimoto, along with her widowed mother, brother, and sister Mary, was among the 110,000 who fell victim to Executive Order 9066 as war with Japan escalated. Family property was confiscated and the Ishimotos, allowed only what they could carry, were taken to Santa Anita racetrack where they were housed in Seabiscuit's stall prior to transport to their long term detention and confinement at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Sister Mary, who had been denied the opportunity to attend the commencement awarding her a Masters Degree in Biology, came to the attention of Katherine and Edgar V. Seeler, Jr., a great-grandson of James Laughlin of Jones & Laughlin Steel and son of renowned Philadelphia architect, Edgar V Seeler. Mary was the first to leave Heart Mountain under the Seeler's sponsorship. Mary gained admission to the Doctoral program in Biology at Harvard and soon after, the entire Ishimoto family was invited by the Seelers to live in Cambridge. For the next 70 years, Carol would call Cambridge home. Successfully balancing her professional life, as Librarian of Harvard College and her commitment to her blended and extended family, Carol served as caregiver, confidant and eventual heir to the estates of her Cambridge benefactors, as well as that of her sister and brother-in-law, Drs. Mary and Warren Watanabe of Philadelphia. Together their collecting and interests spanned culture and period. Both the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are beneficiaries of the largesse of this extraordinary family and the efforts of an extraordinary woman.

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