Antonio "Tony" Czolgosz

Antonio "Tony" Czolgosz

[Research was impeded by the many different spellings of the first and last names. The name on the  Liberty Row List of Names is Toney Czelgezs. The name on the WWI gravestone is Antonio "Tony" Czolgosz, which is the name we chose to use in this profile.]

*No Plaque located

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque.

*No soldier photograph found in the following book: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.

Birth: 1/31/1889, Natrona, Pennsylvania

Address: 1116 Market St., San Francisco, California at the time of draft registration

Demographics: entered the military from California; age 28 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Fruit and Vegetable Packer at Allson & Co., Front St., San Francisco, CA; listed father and mother as dependents; 1910 Census listed occupation at age 18 as Lathe Hand in Brass Manufacturing; he was 11 years old when his half-brother assassinated President William McKinley [See Additional Information section below.]

Appearance: Height medium, Build stout, Eyes blue, Hair light brown

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; enlistment date unknown; Private

Service Number: 2781807

Deployment: 7/7/1918 from New York, NY aboard SS Benalla

Action: Company K, 363rd Infantry Regiment, 91st Infantry Division [aka the "Wild West" Division]

Death: September 29, 1918 at age 29; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: 10/8/1918 buried in an isolated grave at Commune Exermont, Ardennes, France; 4/29/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Lorraine, France; 12/5/1921 final burial at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Plot C Row 33 Grave 27

Next of Kin: Mr. Paul Czolgosz, father, 3557 E. 59th St., Cleveland, OH and 5911 Kenyon Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: [Private Antonio "Tony" Czolgosz's older half-brother, Leon Frank Czolgosz, a wireworker and anarchist, assassinated President William McKinley on 9/6/1901 in Buffalo, NY. Mckinley died on 9/14/1901 of an infection caused by the gunshot wound. Czolgosz was convicted of murder and executed by electric chair on 10/29/1901.] 

Father: Pawel C. "Paul" Czolgosz (1843-1944), born Prussia/Germany/Poland, emigrated to Michigan in 1872, first wife died 1883 leaving at least 10 children, married second wife 1887, occupations included Laborer, Farmer, and Pipe Layer, buried Harvard Grove Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Katherine "Katie" MacFalda Czolgosz (1854-1928), born Germany, emigrated ~1886, buried Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH, Section 55 Lot 567 [no grave marker]; Siblings: See Sibling List at left, which may be incomplete.

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