Sho Nemoto

Sho Nemoto

Sho Nemoto was a regular houseguest of the Billings' during the 1880s and a student with Fritz Billings at the University of Vermont between 1885 and 1889. Nemoto, from Mito, Japan, met Frederick Billings in California in 1879, and Billings arranged for him to study at his alma mater and paid his tuition. Nemoto spent his summers and school vacations with the Billings. After his graduation and a trip around the world that Frederick Billings gave him, Nemoto returned to Japan, where he entered politics and participated in Christian church work. Nemoto and the Billings maintained a long friendship, and he later referred to Frederick Billings as "my dear father in America."