Columbia-Multnomah-Clatsop County OR Archives Biographies.....Roskoski, Anton April 17, 1888 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com June 18, 2009, 3:51 pm Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company ANTON ROSKOSKI, who owns and operates a fine dairy farm near Scappoose and is meeting with well merited success, was born in Russian Poland on the 17th of April, 1888, and is a son of Peter and Mary Roskoski, both of whom also were natives of that country. His father, who was a farmer, is deceased, and the mother is still residing in her native land. They became the parents of six children: Mrs. Rosie Smolinsky, who lives in Portland, Oregon; Anton, of this review; Mrs. Maggie Dorr, who lives in California; John, deceased; and Mrs. Annie Bodznsky and Peter, in Poland. Mr. Roskoski attended the public schools of his native land and also after coming to America, so that he has good command of English. In 1904 when sixteen years old, he emigrated to Canada, where he lived two years, and then went to Glenline, Pennsylvania, where he was employed in coal mines for four years. On July 11,1910, he arrived in Portland, Oregon, and went to work for the packing firm of Swift & Company, with which he remained three years. In 1913 he took up a homestead in Clatsop county, Oregon, near Seaside, and lived there five years, proving up on it. Returning to Portland, he worked for the Swift company for one year, later entering the employ of Slusser Brothers, meat packers, with whom he remained until 1925. By that time he had saved some money and leased a dairy ranch on the Beaverton highway, near Portland, on which he ran forty-two head of cows until 1927, when he bought his present farm, one mile northeast of Scappoose. The present business, which was established on April 10, 1927, and which is being operated under the name of the Scappoose Creek Dairy, has become one of the important enterprises of the locality. Mr. Roskoski and his sons keep sixty-seven head of good dairy cattle and own eighty-seven acres of good bottom land. They have a fine, modern dairy equipment, using milking machines, and have recently installed an up-to-date icing machine and a bottling and washing machine, as well as a large separator. All machinery is operated by electric power. They have what is perhaps the largest barn in Columbia county, one hundred and forty by forty- eight feet, with capacity for eighty-four cows and over two hundred tons of hay. Everything about the place is strictly sanitary, even to the drinking cups for the cattle. The principal farm crops are hay and corn, which is cut green and put up in two large silos for winter feed, each of the silos being sixteen feet in diameter and thirty-six feet high. They operate two large motor trucks and the milk is retailed in Portland and Scappoose. The milk from this dairy is high test and commands a ready sale. Mr. Roskoski also leases one hundred acres of land adjoining his ranch, on which he raises feed crops. In 1909 Mr. Roskoski was united in marriage to Miss Eva Kostek, who also was born in Russian Poland and came to the United States at about the same time as her husband. To them have been born five children, Anton, Jr., Clemmens, Anna, Agge and Julia, all of whom were born in Oregon and are at home. Additional Comments: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Pages 904-905 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/columbia/bios/roskoski803gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb