An engaging tale of life as an immigrant in Cleveland during the post-Civil War era and early twentieth century
The Story of My Life, originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1928, is the engaging and informative autobiography of Frank Vlchek, a Czech immigrant who became a successful businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The youngest of fourteen children, Vlchek was born to peasant parents in Budyn, southern Bohemia, in 1871. After attempting a career in blacksmithing in Bohemia, at the...
An engaging tale of life as an immigrant in Cleveland during the post-Civil War era and early twentieth century
