Joseph Fiialkowski, 1806-1873

FIIALKOWSKI

Posted By: Leslie W. Saint (email)
Date: 1/5/2013 at 05:17:12

Burlington Hawk Eye, June 14, 1873

Mr. Joseph Fiialkowski died at his late residence, in Flint River Township, on the Agency Road, 11th inst. He was a native of Warsaw, the old capitol of Poland, where he was born in 1806. He took part in the revolutions of Nov., 1830, against the despotism of Russia, fought in the Poland army, was taken prisoner, and for five years suffered the cruelties and rigors of confinement in Siberia. In effecting an escape he was at one time without food for eight days, but succeeded in reaching Great Britain. He settled in Edinburg, and was married in that city in 1840, and the same year came to America, and in April, 1846, to Burlington, where he found employment in Hendrie's Foundry. Subsequently for a number of years he had the superintendence of the County Poor farm. He was a man of quiet habits, unpretending in honest and goodness, firm in opposition to oppression and wrong, and of warm attachment to every cause of humanity and freedom.