{"id":13007,"date":"2011-02-16T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13007"},"modified":"2011-02-17T22:40:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T06:40:28","slug":"the-application-for-a-social-security-account-number-for-walter-william-dymek-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13007","title":{"rendered":"The Application for a Social Security Account Number for Walter William Dymek &#8211; 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walter William Dymek, son of Stanis\u0142aw Dymek and Franciszka Ksepka, applied for a Social Security Account Number on 11 December 1936.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SS5-Dymek-Walter-William-1936.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13008\" title=\"Application for Social Security Account Number for Walter William Dymek\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SS5-Dymek-Walter-William-1936.jpg\" alt=\"Application for Social Security Account Number for Walter William Dymek\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SS5-Dymek-Walter-William-1936.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SS5-Dymek-Walter-William-1936-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Application for Social Security Account Number for Walter William Dymek<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Walter William Dymek, SS no. 034\u00e2\u20ac\u009009\u00e2\u20ac\u00903378, 11 December 1936, Application for Account Number (Form SS\u00e2\u20ac\u00905), Social Security Administration, Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Application for Social Security Account Number for <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/SS5-Dymek-Walter-William-1936.pdf\">Walter William Dymek<\/a>. The application states:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walter William Dymek lived at 81 Endicott Street in Worcester, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>He was employed by Arcade Malleable Iron Co. located on Albany Street, Worcester, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>At the time of application, Walter was 24 years old; he was born on 28 December 1911 in Worcester, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>His parents were Stanley Dymek and Francis Ksepka<\/li>\n<li>He was a white male, not registered with the U.S. Employment Service and had not previously applied for a Social Security Account Number<\/li>\n<li>He applied on 11 December 1936 and was granted Social Security Number 034-09-3378<\/li>\n<li>There are two stray marks on the application: the number 530[?] near the upper right and 1-1 written near the bottom right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many Polish immigrants and their sons worked in the iron and steel industry in Worcester .\u00a0 The jobs there did not require a lot of specialized training and paid poorly .\u00a0 Immigrants were often grateful to have jobs, even if the work was hard and the wages low .\u00a0 An image of the Arcade Malleable Iron Works in Worcester, Massachusetts where Walter William Dymek worked is shown below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Arcade-Malleable-Iron-Works.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13010\" title=\"The Arcade Malleable Iron Works\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Arcade-Malleable-Iron-Works.jpg\" alt=\"The Arcade Malleable Iron Works\" width=\"480\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Arcade-Malleable-Iron-Works.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Arcade-Malleable-Iron-Works-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Arcade Malleable Iron Works<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0<em> Illustrated business guide of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts: arranged by streets with the number, name of firm and of business of all business houses in Worcester, together with a brief description of all points of interest and views of public and private buildings<\/em> (Worcester, Mass: Snow, Woodman and Co, 1881), 116.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter William Dymek, son of Stanis\u0142aw Dymek and Franciszka Ksepka, applied for a Social Security Account Number on 11 December 1936. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13007\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,256],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-13007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dymek","category-ksepka","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3nN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13023,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions\/13023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}