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Joseph Frank ROZHON
 1880 - 1938

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  • IMMI  1879 
    Birth  26 Aug 1880  Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender  Male 
    Died  12 Oct 1938  Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Coronary Thrombosis 
    Buried  15 Oct 1938  Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I412  Rozhon's from Chicago and Elsewhere
    Last Modified  06 Feb 2007 15:09:24 
     
    Father  Joseph ROZHON, b. Jan 1834, Kestranech u Vodnan, Pisek, Bohemia  
    Mother  Marie, b. May 1838, Bohemia  
    Family ID  F330  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Bozena (Bessie) VANA, b. 1883, Bohemia  
    Married  1908 
    Children 
    >1. Joseph G. ROZHON, Jr., b. 1909, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
    >2. Bessie (Elizabeth?) ROZHON, b. 1911, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
    Family ID  F253  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • BIRTH:
      Date of birth on his death certificate lists 26 Aug 1880, whereas the 1900 census lists him as having been born Oct 1876. His WWI draft registration card shows 11 Oct 1874.

      Widowed by 1930.

      IMMIGRATION:
      Arrived 1887 per 1910 census. Arrived 1880 per 1920 census. He would have been 4 yrs old.

      CENSUS:
      1910 - 2627 S Homan St., Chicago, Illinois, ED623, Sheet 25B, Lines 57-59, Ward 12 (one block east of Trumbull - 2 blocks west of Spaulding)
      Rozhon, Joseph, HMW 29y, M, married 1 year, born Bohemia, arrived 1887, Na, Machine hand (sash and doors)
      , Bessie, WFW 27y, M, married 1 year, born Bohemia, arrived 1887
      , Joseph, SMW 11/12, S

      RESIDENCES:
      1920 - 2526 Karlov Ave.sid
      1930 - 2404 S 57th Court (*NOTE: Bessie was deceased by 1930)
      1938 - 3512 S. Elmwood Ave., Chicago, Illinois (lived with his daughter at the time of his death)
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S24] 1900 U.S. Federal Census, (NARA - National Archives and Records Administration, Great Lakes Region, 7358 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, Illinois 60629), Series T623., ED 265, Sheet 25B, Lines 54-57, Ward 10, 1900.
      820 18th Street, Chicago, Illinois.

    2. [S19] 1920 U.S. Federal Census, (NARA - National Archives and Records Administration, Great Lakes Region, 7358 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, Illinois 60629), ED 2195, Sheet 10B, Lines 76-79, 1920.
      2526 Karlov Ave., Chicago, Illinois
      Age 42, arrived 1886. Only two children. Date of arrival conflicts with the 1900 census which stated 1879.

    3. [S21] Death Records - State of Illinois, (1916 thru 1947 records held by Illinois State Archives. Post-1947 records held by Illinois Department of Public Health), Registered No.: 211.
      Date of birth shown as 26 Aug 1880. Informant "Mrs. B. Kompare" which is probably his daughter, Bessie. Worked as a maintenance man in the soldering industry. Died at Western Elec. Co., Hawthorne Works on Cicero Ave and Cermak Road.

  
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