Josef Novak (1866–1931), Kapušany
great-great-grandfather
Рождение: 1866-03-19 · Kapušany, Sáros county
Смерть: 1931-08-14 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Погребение: St. Matthew's Slovak cemetery, Pittsburgh
Варианты имени: Jozef Novák; Joseph Novak; Josef Nowak
Jozef Novák was born in Kapušany in March 1866 and baptised in the parish church (S6). In the spring of 1892 he walked and rode to Hamburg, where his name was entered in the emigrant lists together with a Michal Novák from the same village (S9), and sailed to New York. The Ellis Island manifest gives his age as 25 (S5), which is why older family trees say he was born in 1867.
He went first to Chicago, where Slovak boarding houses clustered around the stockyards, and in 1894 married Mária Kováčová there (S7). In 1898 the young family moved to the new coal town of Windber in Somerset County, where Josef dug coal for fourteen years. He became an American citizen in 1904 (S26). The Windber photograph of 1906 shows him with Mária, their children Frank and Helen, and little Rose, the orphan they took in (S8, S13).
In 1912 the Novaks moved to Pittsburgh, and Josef worked as a watchman at a steel works until his lungs gave out. He died in August 1931 (S22).
Источники
- S5. Ellis Island manifest, May 1892 — Оригинал
- S6. Baptism register of Kapušany parish, 1866 — Копия в архиве
- S7. Marriage certificate of Josef Novak and Mary Kovac, Chicago, 1894 — Копия в архиве
- S8. Photo: the Novak family in Windber, 1906 — Копия в архиве
- S9. Hamburg emigrant list, May 1892 — Оригинал
- S13. Petition and decree of adoption of Rose Sabo, 1910 — Копия в архиве
- S22. Death certificate of Joseph Novak, 1931 — Копия в архиве
- S26. Certificate of naturalization of Joseph Novak, 1904 — Копия в архиве
