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Show money and unnerved by their inability to communicate with anyone. Some had been recruited by labor agents, others were encouraged by relatives who had already found jobs in the mines and smelters. found strength and sustained each other through CHARLES J. AND ELSIE G. PECKHAM born in 1879 in London, England. He was apprenticed to learn barbering and married Elsie Grout of Shurness, England in 1904. They joined the LDS Church and four of their chidlren were born in England. Charles James Peckham was They good and bad times. Joseph Stipanovich interviewed Joseph Mickie in 1973 and Mikie told how excited ran a Saloon in everyone was when a Serb, who Midvale, brought a wife over. The men were so happy to see a woman from Yugoslavia they gave her $800 for a wedding present. It was a different and sometimes a more difficult alien land than the earlier pioneers faced. Often looked in fraternal upon with suspicion, they found strength organizations and congenial boarding house living where traditional celebrations and food helped alleviate the loneliness. family, called zadruga, helped in time Stipanovich says there are "two The local of Croatian lodges functioning in Midvale the Serbian organization was named Milosh Obilich I The extended of illnesses or crises. ... Tsar Dushan." The Croatian Fraternal Union, Hrvatska Bratska dates back to 1894 and served Bingham and Zajednica, Midvale. Mile Dragosavac, a young Serb, who came before his was hard life when I come sixteenth birthday said, here and start working " ... " ... In 1913, with his four year old daughter, Florence, he sailed for America. Later that year he sent for his wife and the other children. Mr. Peckham opened a barber in Midvale with another shop Englishman, IVAN "JOE" AND ANNA R. PADJEN William Hubbard. Their shop was in the Elysium theater. The family became U.S. citizens in 1918. Ivan "Joe" Yugoslavia. The He Padjen came mother in 1913 to anniversary in Evelyn (Mrs. Roy Gunnerson); Fiorence (Mrs. Burnell Jarvis), Pearl (Mrs. Richard Rand), Bernard, Dorothy (Mrs. Russell Gray), Lucille (Mrs. Bert Bjurman), Gwen (Mrs. John Dem was born in 1900 in Novi, to the United States with his join already a stepfather and half sister, settled in the United States. Peckhams celebrated their 50th wedding Louise, who 1954. Sons and At 14 he worked at the Midvale Smelter because of the daughters are: boxz) Desmond and Ivan who accident. , was Barnard Peckham and killed in Evelyn P. an ill health of his - the Mines auto - stepfather. He worked in various places Smelter, Apex Mine, Park City Mines, U. S. too proud to accept any help from anyone. In 1923 Ivan married Anna Rukavina. Anna was born in 1906 in Duluth, Minnesota, but when she was two years old the family went to the "old country" (Yugoslavia). Gunnerson Her father, Eli Rukavina, went to Hungary to seek employment, leaving the mother and children in Yugoslavia. Eli Rukavina finally returned to the United States and in turn sent for his wife and children; however, the children became ill and their mother left them with an aunt. World War I engulfed Europe and contact was lost between parents and children for several years. Finally Anna and Mike were reunited with their parents. Anna and Ivan reared seven children Nick, John, Joe, Lee, Matt, George and Patricia (Mrs. Don CULTURAL ENRICHMENT When the mines were being developed after 1869 there immigration of southeastern Europeans. These later immigrants were fortunate to be able to come by train, but often went hungry enroute for lack of was were increased - 62 |
