Michael F. Kulas, Sr.

Borzyszkowy 1869 W117 P7040092-07 Michael Peter Kulas Catharina Dorawa

Winona Republican-Herald obituary of 16 March 1949 gives birth date of 12 September 1868 and emigration date of 1885.

Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001: Mike Kulas (1868 Borosxkowa, Poland), died 15 Mar 1949 Winona (Father: Peter Kulas, Mother: Kathrine Borawz, Spouse: Mary) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HTDS-WQ2M

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1894 (24 July) possibly the laborer Michael Kulas who was buried twice with two brick layers and a young boy, while constructing a large cistern as part of a renovation for the Sisters of St. Francis (former Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet run St. John's hospital) at Winona. After the first land slide Michael Kulas & one of the brick layers (Thomas Stanek) were dug out alive, but due to the weight of the onlookers a second land slide reburied the two & only Michael Kulas survived.

Michael Kulas of Dodge, Wisconsin, who was also born in 1869, married Jennie Rohn at Arcadia in 1897; they ran the general store and saloon in Dodge from 1900 until his death in 1918. (Ron Galewski, Dodge, Wisconsin, pp. 125-126)