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Note: 1893 with his wife Elizabeth (Believed to be German) and four children. The Childrens names that came to the United States are: Stephan, Anton, Katie and Joseph. All other children were born in the United States. They 1st lived at 23 Berdelle Ave. now known as the Slavic Village area of Cleveland, Ohio. It was also near Newburgh Township also known for Polish immigrants settling there. Here is a little Cleveland history that may give you an idea of what Andrew first did for a living and were he may have worked.
SLAVIC VILLAGE/BROADWAY is a predominantly East European neighborhood on the southeast side of Cleveland. Extending from KINGSBURY RUN southward to Grant Ave., it is bounded on the west by I-77 and on the east by E. 79th St. and Broadway Ave. It encompasses 2 ethnic subneighborhoods, the largely Czech KARLIN to the west and the old Polish "Warszawa" to the east. Warszawa was the primary area of settlement for Cleveland's POLES, who came in the 1880s to work in such neighborhood industries as the Cleveland Rolling Mills (see CLEVELAND ROLLING MILL STRIKES). Their lives were focused around their parish church of ST. STANISLAUS CHURCH at E. 65th St. and Forman Ave. and the prosperous Polish commercial district along Fleet Ave. and E. 71st St. Another commercial hub for the neighborhood, more cosmopolitan in nature, flourished from 1920-40 at E. 55th St. and Broadway, which was regarded, along with DOAN'S CORNERS, as a "second downtown" for Cleveland. Polish and other ethnic settlements in the neighborhood peaked during the same period and then began the long postwar decline, due to suburban out-migration. An attempt to revitalize the community was begun with the organization of Neighborhood Ventures, Inc., in Oct. 1977 by Teddy and Donna Sliwinski, along with architect Kaszimier Wieclaw. Choosing the name Slavic Village to attract other ethnic groups, they began transforming many of the deteriorated buildings along Fleet Ave. into a uniform Polish "Hylander" style. The nonprofit Slavic Village Assn. was organized in 1978 to preserve residential and commercial buildings through its sponsorship of the annual Slavic Village Harvest Festival, which in its 17th year (1993) was drawing 100,000 people. In 1990 the Slavic Village Assn. merged with the Broadway Development Corp. as the Slavic Village Broadway Development Corp. to coordinate community-based revitalization activities in the Broadway neighborhood.
NEWBURGH, a township south of Cleveland, was an early population and economic center for the area. Bounded by Cleveland on the north, WARRENSVILLE TWP. on the east, INDEPENDENCE on the south, and the CUYAHOGA RIVER on the west, old Newburgh was on higher ground than Cleveland and thus avoided the outbreaks of malaria that hampered development to the north--but not wolves, which protested but did not stop settlement. In the early 1800s, with 10 families in residence, Newburgh was more prominent than Cleveland, described as "six miles from Newburgh." It was organized as a township in 1814. As early as 1799, mills built at the cataract of MILL CREEK fostered economic prosperity, and soon a main coach road (later called Broadway) was cut through the area. Newburgh's fertile soil and good pastureland encouraged farming, but the waterpower attracted heavy industry, which ultimately dominated the area economy. In the 1840s the Cleveland & Pittsburgh (later Pennsylvania) Railroad was built through the township and provided easy access to shipping. The township's most famous industry, the Cleveland Rolling Mill, was started in 1857 by DAVID AND JOHN JONES to reroll iron rails. The mills changed the ethnic makeup of the community. New England and Manx settlers were outnumbered first by Welsh iron puddlers, then by IRISH, and finally by Polish and Czech mill laborers.
Newburgh's early prominence made it a likely site for the county seat, but Cl
Note: I believe Andrew Drellishak Came to the United States sometime between 1891 to
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