Franz M. Kuchar

b. December 1888, d. 1949
  • Franz M. Kuchar was born in December 1888 in Bohemia.
  • Josef Kuchar and Anna Hoffman arrived in the Port of New York on 16 December 1890, accompanied by Franz M. Kuchar, Ludmilla Kuchar and Jaromira Kuchar aboard the SS Taormina traveling in steerage class, having departed Hamburg on 19 November.
  • He was known as Frank Miles after immigration.
  • Anna Hoffman arrived in the Port of New York on 17 May 1895, accompanied by Franz M. Kuchar, Ludmilla Kuchar, Jaromira Kuchar and Joseph Jaromir Kuchar aboard the SS Wittekind traveling from Bremen in the aft compartment.
  • Josef Kuchar and Anna Hoffman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Manhattan, New York, at 341 East 73rd Street. Other members of the household included Franz M. Kuchar, Ludmilla Kuchar, Jaromira Kuchar, Joseph Jaromir Kuchar and Miloslov S. Kuchar.
  • Josef Kuchar and Anna Hoffman appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Manhattan, New York, at 341 East 73rd Street. Other members of the household included Franz M. Kuchar, Joseph Jaromir Kuchar and Miloslov S. Kuchar.
  • He was employed as a tunnel surveyor, according to the 1910 census.
  • He married Louise Jedlicka on 6 June 1914 in Bronx, New York.
  • Franz M. Kuchar became a widower at the 1927 death of his wife Louise Jedlicka.
  • He married Ruth Linka on 19 October 1928 in Manhattan, New York.
  • Franz M. Kuchar registered for the draft in 1942 while living with his wife Ruth on Chestnut Ridge Road in Montvale, and employed there with Kuchar Bros.
  • Franz M. Kuchar died in 1949.
  • He was interred at Saddle River Low Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery, Upper Saddle River, Bergen County, New Jersey.
  • Last Edited: 27 Aug 2011

Family 1: Louise Jedlicka b. 1892, d. 1927

Family 2: Ruth Linka b. 1898, d. 1988