Frank Novak (1895–1960), Chicago
great-grandfather
Naștere: 1895-02-23 · Chicago, Illinois
Deces: 1960-05-30 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Variante ale numelui: František Novák; Frantisek Novak
František, always Frank in America, was born in Chicago in February 1895 and grew up in Windber, where he went down the mine at thirteen as a door boy. He is the eldest of the children standing beside their parents in the 1906 photograph (S8).
After the move to Pittsburgh he became a machinist. In 1922 he married Anna Hrušková, who had come from Slovakia only two years before. Frank was a pillar of St. Matthew's Slovak parish and sang in its choir for forty years. He died in 1960.
