Lake-La Porte County IN Archives Biographies.....Buczkowski, John 1857 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 7, 2006, 9:25 pm

Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN BUCZKOWSKI.

    The prosperity, and progress of every community depend upon its business
activity, its commercial interests and industrial development, and those who are
foremost in the public life are the men who are controlling the veins and
arteries of traffic. Mr. Buczkowski has become well known in connection with
mercantile circles in Whiting, where he is now conducting a grocery and
confectionery establishment. He deserves great credit for the success he has
attained as it has been won entirely through his own well directed efforts
guided by sound business judgment and permeated by trustworthy methods.

    Mr. Buczkowski is a native of Germany, his birth having occurred on the 14th
of June, 1857. He was but a small boy when he came to America with his parents,
the family home being first established in LaPorte county, Indiana, near
Westville. The father was a farmer by occupation, and John Buczkowski was reared
upon the home farm, early becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall
to the lot of the agriculturist, in connection with the cultivation of the
fields. He remained a resident of LaPorte county until about thirty-three years
of age, and in his boyhood days attended the common schools, thus becoming
equipped for life's practical and responsible duties. After entering upon his
business career he had charge of a department for the street car company for a
time and later was in charge of the convicts of the state prison at Michigan
City for one year. In 1889 he came to Whiting, where he opened a saloon, which
he conducted for five years at one location. He then removed to Robertsdale or
North Hammond, where he continued in the same business for about five years. He
then retired from active business for a time, but indolence and idleness are
utterly foreign to his nature and he afterward entered trade circles. He erected
three buildings in North Hammond, and he now owns four buildings there. He also
bought and sold land and speculated to a considerable extent in real estate,
doing a business which has resulted profitably. He is now connected with the
firm of Smith & Bader in the real estate business, operating under the name of
the Whiting Land Company. He has assisted materially in the upbuilding and
improvement of North Hammond and of Whiting, having erected two houses here, and
he is known as one of the most enterprising and progressive men of the town. As
proprietor of a grocery and confectionery store he is conducting a large and
growing business, and in the different fields of trade with which he has been
connected he has met with creditable success.

    Mr. Buczkowski was elected justice of the peace at the same time that Judge
Jones was elected to represent North Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago in North
township. Mr. Buczkowski has taken quite an active part in public affairs, and
is a Democrat in his political views where national questions are involved, but
at local elections casts his ballot independently of party ties, supporting the
candidates whom he thinks best qualified for office. May 17, 1904, he was
appointed by the council as street commissioner of Whiting.

    In 1881 was celebrated the marriage of John Buczkowski and Miss Mary
Przyblinski, and they now have three children, two sons and a daughter, namely:
Harry, Frank and Vangeline. Mr. Buczkowski is well known in Lake and LaPorte
counties, where he has many friends, and his consecutive endeavor, strong
purpose and laudable ambition have formed the foundation upon which he has
builded his business success. As the architect of his own fortunes he has
builded wisely and well, and may justly be called by the somewhat hackneyed but
very expressive title of a "self-made man."


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/lake/bios/buczkows398gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/

File size: 4.7 Kb