The Wrobel Family

In the village of Grón in the region south of the Polish city of Krakow known as the Podhale, a góral (Polish Highlander) named Jozef Wrobel and his wife Agnieska became the progenitors of a large family that would span both sides of the Atlantic.

Not much is known of Jozef other than that he was a farmer, growing crops and raising sheep on a small plot in a valley in the foothills of the Tatra Mountains below Zakopane.  He was born in 1848.  During most of his life, the state of Poland did not exist.  With most of its territory divided between Prussia, later Germany, to the west and Russia to the east, Krakow and the Podhale were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  However, by the end of his life in 1920, Jozef, would become witness to the stirrings of a new democratic Polish state resulting from the Versailles Treaty following the end of World War I.

His son Jan would be the first to travel to America (albeit temporarily) and establish residence there.

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