History of Chickasaw and Howard counties, Iowa . ate citizen. He is loyal to everyinterest committed to his care and stands at all times on the side of progress andImprovement in relation to everything that has to do with the general interests ofsociety. FRANK J. MARUSKA. Frank J. Maruska, a hardware dealer of the Maruska-Smith Company and amember of the city council of Cresco, is keenly interested in all plans and projectshaving to do with the upbuilding and development of his section of the state. Hewas born in Fort Atkinson, Iowa, October 20, 1878, a son of Frank and Maggie(Rausch) Maruska,
History of Chickasaw and Howard counties, Iowa . ate citizen. He is loyal to everyinterest committed to his care and stands at all times on the side of progress andImprovement in relation to everything that has to do with the general interests ofsociety. FRANK J. MARUSKA. Frank J. Maruska, a hardware dealer of the Maruska-Smith Company and amember of the city council of Cresco, is keenly interested in all plans and projectshaving to do with the upbuilding and development of his section of the state. Hewas born in Fort Atkinson, Iowa, October 20, 1878, a son of Frank and Maggie(Rausch) Maruska, the former a native of Bohemia, while the latter was born inFort Atkinson, Iowa. The father came to the United States about 1870, when ayoung man of twenty-one or twenty-two years, and made his way directly westwardto Iowa, establishing his home in Winneshiek county. He was there married andin 1888 removed to Howard county, where he rented the Bullis farm and laterinvested his savings in eighty acres of farm land north of Lourdes. There he has. CHICKASAW AND HOWARD COUNTIES 259 since resided, his time and attention being successfully given to general agriculturalpursuits. His first wife died in Winneshiek county, Iowa, and he was later marriedin Howard county to his present wife. Frank J. Maruska was educated in the district schools and at the age of nineteenyears started out upon an independent business career. He went first to Elma,Iowa, and began work in the implement house of Frank Smart, with whom heremained through the summer. He then accepted a clerkship in the general mer-chandise establishment of William Deikmann, with whom he remained for a afterwards worked a short time for the Gilchrist Elevator Company at ^a, and then went to Alta Vista, where he entered the employ of TimmermansBrothers, general merchants, with whom he continued for two years. Followingthis he went to work for E. C. Brenner, a general merchant of the same town,and continued with h
Size: 1204px × 2076px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublisherchica, bookyear1919
