NEPA: The Keystone of Carpatho-Rusyn American History (3): Fraternals, Newspapers, Businesses

The presentation concludes with a look at these Rusyn milestones achieved in northeastern Pennsylvania.

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Carpatho-Rusyn “Firsts” (continued)

• Fraternal Organizations
• Newspapers
• Businesses

Carpatho-Rusyn “Firsts”: Fraternal Organizations

Greek Catholic Union of Russian Brotherhoods (GCU), founded 1892 in Wilkes-Barre
First Convention, Scranton, 1893

GCU Uhro-Rusyn Sts. Peter & Paul Lodge, Kingston

GCU Uhro-Rusyn Youth Brotherhood, Dunmore

Ruskij Narodnŷj Sojuz (founded 1894 in Shamokin)
Also the Little Russian National Union;
Renamed the Ukrainian National Association in 1914.
National Officers at 3rd convention in Mount Carmel, 1896
From Shamokin, Mount Carmel, Olyphant, and Pittsburgh

Russian Orthodox Catholic Mutual Aid Society (ROCMAS, founded 1895 in Wilkes-Barre)
National Officers: from Wilkes-Barre, Old Forge, Edwardsville, Catasauqua, and Philadelphia

ROCMAS Headquarters, Wilkes-Barre

ROCMAS First Convention, Wilkes-Barre, 1895

ROCMAS Women's Lodge of St. Anna, Wilkes-Barre

Russian Brotherhood Organization (RBO), founded 1900 in Mahanoy City

RBO St. Nicholas Youth Branch, Hudson

Carpatho-Rusyn “Firsts”: Newspapers

Ameryka (Shenandoah, 1886)

Amerykanskij Russkij Vistnyk (Scranton, 1892)

Svoboda (1893, moved to Shamokin and Mount Carmel 1896)

Svit (Old Forge and Wilkes-Barre, 1895)

Pravda (1902, moved to Olyphant in 1906)

Ljubov (Mayfield, 1913, served the Ruska Pravoslavna Ljubov fraternal organization founded there in the same year)

Carpatho-Rusyn “Firsts”: Businesses

Rusyn cooperative stores ("Greek Store Co.") in Shenandoah and Shamokin

Advertisement for Russian Mercantile Company cooperative store: "All wise Rusyns belong to this company and shop at their own store --  which means they support their own."

John Žinčak Smith's bank/notary and travel agency, Mahanoy City

The Hryhorij Savuljak building, Shenandoah

The Michal Boruch building, Minersville

Hoteliers: Ivan Vorhač, Mount Carmel, Ivan Madzeljan and Julij Kopystjan'skij, Shamokin

Hoteliers/restaurateurs: Seman Mytrenko, Olyphant, Symeon Kuzmyč, Mayfield, Dymytrij Kapitula, McAdoo

Butcher/grocers: Mychal Hobljak, Edwardsville, Petro Kichart, Mayfield, Andrej Kopčo, Rhone (Hanover - Nanticoke)

Grocers: Petro Bohačyk, Kulpmont, Vasyl' Sydor, Frackville, Toma Lehockŷj, Mahanoy City

Beer distributors: Ivan Harvyla, Minersville and Ivan Chyljak, Ashland; grocer Andrij Horbal', Saint Clair

Undertakers: Petro Svala (Swallow), Olyphant; Michal Jevčak (Yeosock), Plains/Edwardsville

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