Editing Takamine Jōkichi (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Jokichi Takamine Mausoleum 12-2008.jpg|thumb|300px|The mausoleum of Jokichi Takamine in [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx)|Woodlawn Cemetery]], [[Bronx]], [[New York City]]]]
On August 10, 1887, Takamine travelled to the US and married [[Caroline Takamine Beach|Caroline Field Hitch]] in New Orleans. They had two sons Jokichi Takamine, born 1888 in Tokyo, Japan,  and Ebenezer Takashi Takamine born in 1889. The family emigrated to the US arriving in Chicago in December 1890.<ref name="shurtleff"/>{{rp|6}}<ref name="MDD">{{Cite journal |last=Joan Bennet |date=December 2001 |title=The Time Line: Adrenalin and cherry trees |url=http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/mdd/v04/i12/html/12timeline.html |journal=Modern Drug Discovery |volume=4 |issue=12 |pages=47–48,51 |access-date=2016-01-24 |archive-date=2019-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101100524/http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/mdd/v04/i12/html/12timeline.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Due to her influence he converted to Catholicism. According to historical records, he would maintain this faith throughout his life.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Doak |first=Kevin Michael |title=Xavier's legacies: Catholicism in modern Japanese culture |date=2011 |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0-7748-2021-9 |series=Asian religions and society series |location=Vancouver}}</ref>