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A Standard History of Starke County, Indiana
McCormick, Joseph N. - 1915

     [223-224]

           FRANK SLANSKY. One of the substantial citizens of Wayne Town-
        ship is FRANK SLANSKY, who has a comfortable and well improved home
        in section 18.  FRANK SLANSKY first came to know Starke County when
        a young man, more than thirty years ago, in the capacity of a farm
        laborer. For a number of years he worked at his trade in Chicago,
        and about sixteen years ago returned to Starke County and has since
        enjoyed prosperity as an agriculturist. He is a representative of
        the sterling Bohemian people who are so numerously represented in
        this section of Starke County, and while establishing a home and
        rearing his family has also been a useful factor in community
        affairs.

           FRANK SLANSKY was born at Pilsen, Bohemia, June 15, 1864. Many
        generations of the family had lived in the same locality, and his
        parents were FRANK and MARY (TAYLOR) SLANSKY, both of whom died in
        Bohemia in the prime of life and when their son Frank was four
        years of age. After their death he was reared by his grandmother
        MARY TAYLOR, was educated in the local schools, and at the age of
        sixteen left his native land in 1880 and came to the United States.
        He took passage on a steamer at Hamburg, Germany, and was fifteen
        days on the ocean until landing in New York City.  He came west to
        Chicago and then to North Judson in Starke County, where he was
        employed on a farm two and a half years. He then returned to
        Chicago and found employment as a laborer and afterwards developed
        skill as a mechanic in cabinet-making.  He was for many years a
        capable employe of a piano factory, where he was one of the most
        proficient in general wood-working, as a finisher, framer and
        joiner. This was his occupation for a number of years, but in
        February, 1908, he returned to Starke County and bought sixty
        acres of land in section 18 of Wayne Township. He has since added
        twenty acres and now has a well improved farm of eighty acres, part
        of it in meadow and pasture, and the rest cultivated through the
        staple crops of Starke County.  He has a comfortable home, substan-
        tial barn and other buildings, and enjoys a well deserved prosper-
        ity as a member of the Starke County agricultural community.

           During his residence in Chicago MR. SLANSKY married JOSIE
        SVOBODA. She was born in the same locality of Bohemia as her
        husband in the year 1867, a daughter of THOMAS and JOSIE (HOLOLOVA)
        SVOBODA, both of whom spent all their lives in Bohemia, her father
        dying at the age of eighty-five and her mother aged seventy-five.
        They were both devout members of the Catholic faith.  MRS. SLANSKY
        had known her husband from childhood, and three years after his
        departure from Bohemia she followed him, taking the same route
        though landing at Baltimore, and immediately after her arrival in
        Chicago they were married. They have now lived together and shared
        their toil and prosperity and joys and sorrows for more than thirty
        years.  MR. and MRS. SLANSKY are the parents of eight children.
        BERTHA is the wife of HENRY KNDRNA of Chicago, and their children
        are LILLIE, GEORGE and IRVIN.  LOUIS, who is a machinist in
        Chicago, married POLLY RODER, and their children are WILLIAM and
        ELMER.  JERRY, who was bom in Chicago, as were the other children,
        and received his education in the public schools there, while still
        a boy began an apprenticeship at the tailor's trade and followed
        that occupation until coming to Starke County with his parents in
        1908, since which time he has assisted his father in the management
        of the farm, and is still unmarried.  EMMA is the wife of JOSEPH
        BURIJANEK, lives in North Judson, and is the mother of two sons,
        GEORGE and RAYMOND.  EDWARD, who is single, recently completed his
        education in the public schools of Wayne Township, and is at home.
        The three youngest children, EMIL, ELLA and WILLIAM, are all
        attending the district schools of Wayne Township.  MR. SLANSKY and
        his older sons generally support the republican ticket in politics.

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