Eugene Parisek

• Immigration: 1887
• Residence: Precinct 35 West Town Chicago city Ward 10, Cook, Illinois, United States - 1900
• Residence: Cook, Illinois - 1910
• Residence: Chicago Ward 25, Cook, Illinois, United States - 1910
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Eugene Parisek Co., a corporation, Chicago, III.

Eugen Parisek, 300 West Adams Str., Room 306, Chicago nebo clo Elks Club W. Washington Str., Chicago, Illinois

The club of natives of the city of Jistebnice and its surroundings in Prague was officially founded on March 30, 1925 in a restaurant on Střelecký ostrov. The meeting was preceded by a meeting of the organizers on March 11, 1925 in the same place. Evžen Parízek, who lived in the USA for many years and after returning to the young Czechoslovak Republic, devoted himself to building foreign trade with the United States, was elected the first chairman of the Club.

In the sources of the Club, the Anglicized form of his name is consistently given. He was born in Jistebnice 2. ll. 1865 and after graduating from the Tábor grammar school, he went to the USA in 1886, settled in Chicago and achieved great business success. In the 1930s, he traveled overseas several times, and in 1933, after visiting his family, he set off on a steamship trip around the world. After a short stay in Czechoslovakia, he went to the USA again in 1935, having previously given up the chairmanship of the Natives' Club due to this intention, his health and advanced age (he was replaced by the current vice-chairman, Viktor Katz, at the next general meeting of the Club). He moved from Chicago to Los Angeles. Parisek returned to Europe at approximately yearly intervals, he last attended the Club meeting in June 1938, and left Naples in the fall. He spent the years in America during World War II. world war and after its end he never returned to his homeland. According to the booklet Twenty-five years of our association, he died in 1948.