Lynch High School 1946 Lynch, Kentucky:Lynch High School 1946 Lynch, Kentucky:
Chillicothe Business College 1949-51 Chillicothe, Missouri:
BS in Health & Physical Education, Lincoln Memorial University 1956-58 Harrogate, Tennessee
Veterans Administration-GI Bill of Rights
Murray State Teachers 1962 Murray, Kentucky, National Science Foundation Grant:
Xavier University 1968-69 Cincinnati, Ohio:
Military:
United States Army Branch - Engineer 1947-48:
United States Army Branch - Engineer Alaska 1951-53
Organizations:
American Legion Post 69 Reading, OH Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5171 Cumberland, KY
career:
United States Steel Corporation, Lynch District Mines, Payroll Office 1953-1956
30 years of teaching Health & Physical Education, Biological Sciences - Biology, Human Anatomy and Earth Science. Extra Curricular - Coached Football, Basketball and Tennis. Lynch High School, Lynch, Kentucky; Amelia Junior High School, Amelia, Ohio; Glen Este Junior High School, Glen Este, Ohio; Reading Jr High & Middle School, Reading, Cincinnati, Ohio.
My father worked in the mines of Welch and Gary, West Virginia, Louellen, Kentucky and Lynch, Kentucky. Family records of 1917 indicate that my father was one of the original miners at the Lynch Mines and that he passed and was awarded his Mine Foreman Papers from the Kentucky State Bureau Of Mines and Minerals in 1922. What better way to remember him and his fellow coal miners and their work ethic as they kept their families clothe and fed on a meager wage. My father worked for over 40 years underground as a section foreman at Mine 31, B seam, supervising and directing the work of a section of miners that consisted of a variety of mine related occupations [bank-mule drivers in the early years, motorman, brakeman, track layers, hand loaders, pump operator,
timber setters, supply man, bratticeman man, rock dusters, roof bolters] keeping
records of their work time and general work related aspects of their lives.
This system is placed in the public domain by a Coal Miners Son with the help of many family members and friends. This coal mining community was a melting pot of individuals from all over the earth. The employees were recruited from
the immigrants of Europe that came to this country. Workers were also recruited from other states in the United States and encouraged to take jobs in the mines.
The family roots begin in eastern europe in the beautiful country of Hungary, specifically in the hilly Transdanubia of the west and home of the Tokay grape. They were farmers who imigrated to America by steam ship [Kaiserin Auguste Victoria] from the Port of Hamburg, Germany, arriving May 11, 1907.
Their destination Ellis Island, New York, traveling in the first decade of the ninteen hundreds. After processing at Ellis Island the family was allowed to travel west to Buffalo, NY., and then to the first permanent job in South Bend, Indiana. with Oliver Plow, a farm implement
manufacturing company. The pay was sixteen cents and hour. Looking forward for better opportunities to earn a better wage, coal mining was more prosperous at two dollars a day, however a more dangerous occupation. The family was moved to Welch and Gary, West Virginia later to be transferred to Lynch in
Kentucky. The travel was by railroad box car which consist of three children, four boarders, the household furniture and livestock.
Dad participated in the fraternal and social life of the Hungarian-American community. He was popular in native and American circles and was also instrumental in helping many new Hungarian families settle and adjust to a work life of a coal mining community, established a lodge for the Woodmen of The World Life Insurance Society and sponsored many ethnic social activities.
Both mother and dad learned to speak english, studied government and the laws thereof and became naturalized citizens of America, dad in 1925, mother in 1945, through the Circuit Court of Harlan County, Kentucky, Harlan, KY.
News print of the time was two Hungarian papers. The MAGYAR BANYASLAP [Hungarian Miners Journal], and the NEPSZABA [Peoples Voice]. These papers were printed in New York and sent through the U S mail and contained news happenings of the coal field communities of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky. Local papers were the Tri-City News, Cumberland, KY., Harlan Daily Enterprise, Harlan, KY., Knoxville News Sentinel, Knoxville, TN., Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, KY., and Louisville Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. GRIT was also a favorite.
This endavor is a computer hobby [self taught through trial and error] of one who has retired from the work a day world and is in need of experimenting with leisure time activities. The purpose is to illustrate and display the physical remains that are present today and will be an indicator that a past captive coal mine operation that began in 1917 and ended for all practical purposes in the 1960's did in fact give rise to the mining of coal in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky.
The Shift Is Just Beginning At the Works
Audra Caudill Bosch, Gene Blair, Ann Bosch Garris, Irene Bosch Florek, Richard Florek Sr, Rose Bosch Saltess, Lucinda Ison Caudill, Jacqueline Coldiron, Louis Lorencz, Bob Lunsford,Tammy Marsili, Silvester [Sil] Baskin, and my Virtual Cyberspace friend and Editor David Meister