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Václav Karel's application for U.S. citizenship. He renounced all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty, and particularly to Franz Joseph I of Austria.
The certificate also describes Václav's current…

Baptismal certificate of Anna Kodým and her father. According to this certificate, Anna Kodým was born in 1843 and her father Mr. Kodým in 1818.

Václav Karel's baptismal certificate. He was born in 1839 in a Bohemian village Nadryby in Pilsen region. He was baptized in the parish in Plana by priest František Piller.

His parents and grandparents came from Nadryby as well; they all were…

This certificate declares Václav Karel's intention to become a citizen of the United States and to renounce allegiance to the Austrian Empire.

Václav Karel asked for invalid pension on September 13, 1897 at the age of 58 due to rheumatism and disease of the digestive organs, lungs, liver, and kidneys.

After the Civil War the Pension Bureau grew quickly and created bureaucratic…

Anna Karel declared that she had been widowed in order to collect her husband's pension in 1920 at the age of 77. In the middle to late nineteenth century, the U.S. Pension Bureau had grown large compared to its pre-Civil War size. It created…

The first side of this artifact is a letter from the Klopp & Bartlett Company encouraging the recipient to purchase supplies from Klopp and Bartlett, a Nebraska company. On the second side of Klopp & Bartlett Co. letter is a list of incomes for the…

These family notes discuss life milestones of Václav Karel who came to United States in 1864.

Marriage License between Václav Karel and Anna Kodým on February 2, 1864. They were united by George Schneider, a Catholic priest in Iowa City, Iowa.

Joseph F. Karel and Annie Karel's mortgage document. Joseph F. Karel and his wife Annie Karel executed their mortgage unto The Prudential Insurance Company of America, of Newark, New Jersey in 1922.