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Walkowiak, Anthony J., Buffalo, was born in January, 1869, in Posen, Germany. which was also the birthplace
of his parents, John and Mary (Pachulski) Walkowiak, who reared four other sons and a daughter. In 1880 the family
left the fatherland and came to Buffalo, N. Y., where Anthony J. attended the public schools for four years. He
then worked on a farm and later became a clerk in a grocery store and in 1888 accepted the position of traveling
salesman for a wholesale grocery house, with which he remained until 1892. In 1893 he established his present wholesale
and retail grocery and wholesale liquor business at 387-389 Peckham street, where he has a large double store and
where he has built up a successful and constantly increasing trade. He has been an active Democrat and in 1892
was his party's candidate for coroner. In 1893 he was appointed a doorkeeper in the Legislature at Albany. He was
district committeeman four years, chairman of the Democratic City Committee two years and county committeeman at
large two years, and since 1892 has been a member of the Democratic General Committee and is now acting on the
advisory committee. He is a member of the Polish Union and the Monniscko Club, and in religion is a Roman Catholic.
In 1890 he married Rose Pitass of Buffalo, and they have two sons and three daughters.
Source:
Our County and it's people
a descriptive work on Erie County, New York
Edited by: Trumen C. White
The Boston History Company, Publishes 1898
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