Shinpei Mykawa

[1] In 1903 Mykawa first came to the United States as a naval officer representing Japan at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.

While on his way to return to Japan, Mykawa passed through Houston and decided that the land around the city was perfect for rice cultivation.

Mykawa settled in Erin Station, an unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, and established a rice farm there.

[2] Mykawa, after the World's Fair, had organized a rice farming project, and returned to Texas in 1906 with four other men.

[6] During World War II, the cemetery placed his gravestone in for safekeeping for a period after threats against the grave were telephoned.