Bio of Frank SKALSKY (b 1853), Jackson Co., MN

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The following excerpt comes from 
An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota
by Arthur P. Rose
Northern History Publishing Company, Jackson, Minnesota, 1910

p. 571-572

FRANK SKALSKY (1898) owns and farms the northeast quarter of section 3, 
Petersburg township. His parents were Joseph and Nora (Skalsky) Skalsky 
and he was born in Bohemia August 4, 1853.

Our subject had but few advantages in an educational way. At the age of 
fifteen years he started working as a glass blower and he followed that 
occupation fifteen years. At the age of thirty he emigrated to the 
United States and for the next fifteen years engaged in farming near 
Earlham, Iowa. He moved to Jackson county in August, 1898, bought his 
farm in Petersburg township, and that has since been his hime. He owns 
stock in the Farmers' Cooperative Elevator company of Alpha. 

Mr. Skalsky was married in April, 1883, to Julia Frost. To these parents 
have been born the following named children: Joseph, born June 16, 1884; 
Frank, born August 28, 1889; Tony, born September 5, 1890.