From America to Japan
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| 1874 | (23 years old) | May: The general executive committee of WFMS-MEC decides to send one missionary to Japan. Dora is recognized as a candidate. |
| 1874 | September: A grand send-off party is held in Evanston. Dora leaves her home in Channahon. She heads to Chicago via Morris. She then travels from Chicago to San Francisco via the transcontinental railroad. | |
| October 3: Dora departs San Francisco on a Pacific Mail Steamship Company boat. |
Keiko Tanamura