{"id":1994,"date":"2007-12-04T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T07:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/grandfather-the-set-up-man\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T00:01:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T07:01:22","slug":"grandfather-the-set-up-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1994","title":{"rendered":"Grandfather, the Set Up Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1942, my grandparents were still living at 18 Huntington Ave., but my grandfather&#8217;s occupation had apparently changed again.<\/p>\n<p>Kostanty and Helen A. Niedzialkowski are listed in the 1942 Worcester Directory published by R.L. Polk &#038; Co.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Worcester Directory 1942 Entry for Kostanty and Helen Niedzialkowski\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/DWO-1942-Niedzialkowski-Kostanty-C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1995\" style=\"width: 462px; height: 100px\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Worcester Directory 1942 Entry for Kostanty and Helen Niedzialkowski\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/DWO-1942-Niedzialkowski-Kostanty-C.jpg\" width=\"462\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Worcester Directory 1942 Entry for Kostanty and Helen Niedzialkowski<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: Massachusetts City Directories, Worcester 1942, page 750, Kostanty Niedzialkoski; digital image, Ancestry.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ancestry.com<\/a> : accessed 02 December 2007); citing Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass.) City Directory Vol. 1942 XCIX. 1942. Boston, MA: R.L. Polk &#038; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a <a id=\"p1998\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/DWO%201942%20Niedzialkowski%20Kostanty%20R.pdf\">PDF<\/a> copy of the Worcester Directory 1942 Entry for Kostanty and Helen Niedzialkowski. The brief record states the following:<\/p>\n<p>Kostanty Niedzialkowski was a set up man for Worcester Pressed Steel Company who resided at 18 Huntington av,<br \/>\nhis wife&#8217;s name was Helen A.;<br \/>\nhis daughter, Natalie V., worked as a secretary for Ryan &#038; Harrington and resided at 18 Huntington av;<br \/>\nhis son, Raymond, worked as a clerk at Soloway&#8217;s Market and resided at 18 Huntington av.<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather&#8217;s occupation as a set up man may or may not be different than that of his jobs described in earlier directories. Here, his employer is clearly listed as Worcester Pressed Steel.<\/p>\n<p>As of 1940, my Aunt Natalie was employed as a secretary for Ryan &#038; Harrington. Other directory entries show that Frank P. Ryan and Alf. D. Harrington were lawyers doing business from 332 Main, Room 308, just down the hall from her previous employer.<\/p>\n<p>The residence, 18 Huntington Avenue, was owned by his uncle, Frank Niedzialkoski.<\/p>\n<p>The name Damian Niedzialkowski again appears in the directory. I still don&#8217;t know if or how Damian is related.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1942, my grandparents were still living at 18 Huntington Ave., but my grandfather&#8217;s occupation had apparently changed again. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1994\">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":[27,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","category-niedzialkowski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-wa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}