Josef Kuchar

b. 2 August 1862, d. 29 October 1938
  • Josef Kuchar was born on 2 August 1862 in Bohemia.
  • He married Anna Hoffman circa 1884 in Czechoslovakia.
  • Josef Kuchar and Anna Hoffman arrived in the Port of New York on 16 December 1890, accompanied by Ludmilla Kuchar, Jaromira Kuchar and Franz M. Kuchar aboard the SS Taormina traveling in steerage class, having departed Hamburg on 19 November.
  • He was a shoemaker according to his 1890 Hamburg emigration record.
  • He was naturalized on 27 July 1896 at New York, New York. In the US District Court, while residing at 414 East 71st Street, occupation shoemaker. Witness was undertaker John Michalek, 403 East 73rd Street.
  • 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 Ludmilla Kuchar, Jaromira Kuchar, Franz M. Kuchar, Joseph Jaromir Kuchar and Miloslov S. Kuchar.
  • He was an insurance agent, according to the 1900 census.
  • 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 an insurance agent, according to the 1910 census.
  • Josef Kuchar appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Montvale, Bergen County, New Jersey, at Chestnut Ridge Road.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1930 census.
  • Josef Kuchar became a widower at the 14 October 1934 death of his wife Anna Hoffman.
  • Josef Kuchar died on 29 October 1938 at age 76 in Bergen County, New Jersey.
  • He was interred at Saddle River Low Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery, Upper Saddle River, Bergen County, New Jersey.
  • The following appeared on 30 October 1938 in The New York Times: Kuchar - John Hancock Lodge, No. 70, F. and A. M.: Brethren are requested to attend Masonic Funeral Services for our late brother, Joseph Kuchar, on Monday, Oct. 31, at 3 P. M., at his late residence, Franklin Ave., Montvale, N. J.
         Samuel Kushnick, Master. Herbert S. Hirsch, Secretary.
  • Last Edited: 12 Jan 2012

Family: Anna Hoffman b. October 1864, d. 14 October 1934