Career
Floyd Schmoe was a stretcher bearer during World War I. He did not fight because he was a pacifist and conscientious objector based on his Quaker faith. He did not take part in World World War World War II After World World War II he went to Hiroshima, Japan and helped rebuild houses that were destroyed by the atomic bomb. He built 21 homes from 1949 to 1953 in Hiroshima financed by funds from the United States. He became a professor of forestry at the University of Washington.
He was the first park naturalist at Mountain.
Rainier National Park. He also traveled all over the world and built the Seattle Peace Park.
In 2012, the sole remaining house was re-opened as a museum, with his then-85 year old son Wildred Schmoe attending along with Hiroshima mayor Kazumi Matsui.