Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Chvatal, Frank J 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Chvatal, Frank J., who is known as one of Coal City's most progressive and 
enterprising business men, has worked his way into public confidence by the 
exercise of industry, integrity and well-applied effort.  A native of Grundy 
County, he has spent his entire life here, and at no time has failed in his 
duties as a good citizen.  Mr. Chvatal was born at Braidwood, Illinois, 
October 3, 1886, and is a son of Joseph and Barbara (Black) Chvatal.  His 
parents were natives of Prague, Bohemia, where his father learned the trade of 
butcher.  At the age of sixteen years, Joseph Chvatal came to the United 
States and located in Chicago, Illinois, where for something over three years 
he worked at his trade, then moved to Braidwood, where he entered business on 
his own account.  Mr. Chvatal came to Coal City in 1891, and during the next 
eighteen years was known as one of his community's foremost and most reliable 
business men.  His death, in 1909, lost to Coal City a man who in many ways 
had assisted in promoting the city's interests.  His widow still survives and 
makes her home in Coal City.  They were the parents of eight children:  Frank; 
Joseph; James; Eddie and Emma, who are deceased; Bessie; Louis, and one who 
died in infancy.

Frank J. Chvatal received his education in the public schools of Braidwood, 
Illinois, and early applied himself to securing a knowledge of the butchering 
business.  At the time of his father's death, he and his brother Joseph took 
over the business, which they have continued to conduct to the present time, 
with well-merited success.  Mr. Chvatal is essentially a business man, and has 
found little time to engage in public affairs.  Nevertheless, he has shown his 
good citizenship by supporting all movements of a progressive nature, and can 
be relied upon to give his aid and influence to good men and proper 
principles.  On October 3, 1910, Mr. Chvatal was married to Miss Maud 
McKinley, born July 19, 1890, an estimable young lady of Coal City.  He is a 
member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias and White Cross orders.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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