Who came to Grand Rapids from Trzemeszno?

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In an online digital library, Maciej Adamski discovered a letter in an old magazine, Tygodnik Illustrowany Lech, dated April 12, 1879, from Polish citizens of Grand Rapids sent to a Polish newspaper. They had written to congratulate a famous polish writer. Its great value, as a primary source document, is verification that signers of the letter were in Grand Rapids by 1879. Adamski believes most of those listed were from Trzemeszno, but it is not certain that all of them were.

Signers of the letter were:

Jan Lipczyński
Szymon Dzieniszewski
FranciszekSzociński
Ignacy Szociński
Józef Sławnikowski
Marcin Buszkiewicz
Juljan Maliszewski
Józef Owczarek
Kazimierz Buszkiewicz
Jan Modrzejowski
Michał Bernacki
Michał Pruss
Teodor Gumiński
Stanisław Patrowicz
Jan Meneniewski
Polikarp Dorf
J. W. Napierała
Kazimierz Wełniak
Antoni Domicz
Edmund Patrzykowski
Franciszek Behrend
Jan Firbich
Antoni Lipczyński
Stanisław Osiorowski
Józef Tłoczyński
Michał Laferski
Józef Główczyński
Andrzej Popowski
Józef Rewerski

The following names of those known to be from Trzemeszno have appeared in local history sources and the Poznan Project marriage records.

Konstantin Buszewicz, 1885
Victoria (Liebek) Buszewicz, 1886
Joseph Glowczynski, probably Valeria Lipczynski’s brother
Michael Kowalski and his wife Theresa Rejmann Skory
John Lipczynski and his wife Waleria Glowczynski
Valentine Pogodzinski and his wife Ludovica Lipczynski (sister of John)
Jacob Pogodzinski and his wife
Michael Prus (Proos) and his wife Pelagia Glowczynski (sister of Waleria Lipczynski)
Anton Skory and his wife Cunegundis Mecinska
Casimir Skory son of Theresa Rejmann Skory Kowalski and Kasimir Skory
Anton Stiller, and his wife Victoria Mateuszus
Valentine Szymanski, and his wife Josephine
Antoni Wojciakowski (see his letters, 1936-1947, written in Polish, to family in Trzemeszno)

Wojciakowski’s letters mention some other names like Kempski, Derezinski, Mrówczynski. Possibly these are also names from Trzemeszno. The Wojciakowski family letters have kindly been shared with us by Zygmunt Nowaczyk, the former deputy mayor of Trzemeszno.