Jacenty Josef "Jacob" Medrek ¹

   Other names for Jacenty were Jacenty Josef Medrek, Jacety Medrek ³ and Arcentie Medrik.⁴

  General Notes:

jmedrek OCCUPATION: Jacenty was a tailor, along with his wife Louise. They competed with each other at one time with duo tailoring businesses in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. One of the businesses was in an old firehouse. The kids had a family orchestra.

*this was taken from family tree page of Jacenty's grandson J Medrek

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: Wysoka, Poland, 27 Dec 1904, New York, New York County, New York, USA.

• United States WW I draft registration card, 12 Sep 1918, Town Hall, Ware, Hampton County, Massachusetts, USA.

Jacenty married Ludwika Louise Piwowarski, daughter of Andrew Piwowarski and Antonia Barnas, on 30 Sep 1902 in Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA. (Ludwika Louise Piwowarski was born on 30 Sep 1886 in Austria, Poland, died in Apr 1968 in Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA and was buried in Saint Stanislaus Cemetery, Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA ².)