Edward Pinkowski


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Ellis Island Medal of Honor recipient Edward Pinkowski (right) with his son Jack (left) at the awards banquet on May 15, 2004.

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Profession

Author and Historical Researcher

Where It All Began

Born August 12, 1916, in the maternity ward for indigent mothers, Holyoke City Hospital, Massachusetts.

Raised Across the Connecticut River in Willimansett, Massachusetts.

Baseball player and team manager, youth league sponsored by the newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts. Little league had not yet started.

Education

Graduate Mount Carmel (PA) High School; Newspaper Institute of America; Antonelli School of Photography; and New York University writers' workshop.

Work Experience

U. S. Navy, World War II, Yeoman 3c to Chief Specialist (X); associate editor, Bainbridge Main Sheet; Our Navy magazine; contributor, Mount Carmel Item; columnist, Anthracite Tri-district News; book reviewer, Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Post Dispatch and other newspapers; free lance writer; editor and publisher, South Side Press; Manager, Sunshine Press.

Past Organizations

President, Spring Garden Civic Association; Vice President, Polish American Historical Association; Commissioner and Chairman of Certification Committee, Philadelphia Historical Commission, under three mayors; vice president and chairman of ethnic committee, Philadelphia Bicentennial Corporation; chairman, Kosciuszko Memorial Committee; chairman, Sadowski Memorial Committee; honorary Chairman, Lattimer Massacre Memorial Committee; president American Polish Landmarks Society; founder, Polish Heritage Society of Philadelphia; Pennsylvania Folklore Society; Polish American Congress; and others.

Present Organizations

Honorary Member, Captain Stanislaus Mlotkowski Memorial Brigade; American Legion; Polish National Alliance; Warwick Township Historical Society; Polish Genealogical Society of California; founder and president, Pinkowski Institute; and others.

Honors

General Steuben Medal, Steuben Society of America, New York, 1976; Miecislaus Haiman Memorial Medal, Polish American Historical Association, San Francisco, 1985; key to city and honorary citizen of Savannah, Georgia, 1996; Pulaski award (glass vase with Pulaski's head etched on it), Chicago Society of the Polish National Alliance, 1997; Georgia Guardian, a weekly newspaper, "Celebrate Savannah Award" in recognition of outstanding contribution to Savannah in 1996; Legion of Honor, Pilsudski Institute of America; Distinguished Service award, American Council for Polish Culture, Toronto, 1997; Pulaski Medal, Pulaski Museum, Warka, Poland, 1997; Distinguished Man of the Year Award, Polish Heritage Society of Philadelphia, 1997; 1999 National Citizen of the Year Award, Pol-Am, Eagle, Buffalo, NY; Distinguished Service Award of Pinellas County, Florida, Council for Polish Culture; Cavalier's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, 2001; Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 2004.

Personal

Married sixty years to Connie Rosiello, daughter of Italian immigrants. Father of two children -- James and Jack; and five grandchildren: James Edward, Nathaniel Llewellyn, Marcel Peter, Tiffany Marie, and Ashley Rose.

Author

John Siney: The Miner's Martyr; Washington's Officers Slept Here; History of Bridgeport, PA; Lattimer Massacre; Forgotten Fathers; Chester County Place Names; The Great Influx of Polish Immigrants and the Industries They Entered; Pills, Pen and Politics; Polish Families of America (in progress).


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Ellis Island Medal of Honor recipient Edward Pinkowski (left)
with Alexander Koproski at the awards banquet on May 15, 2004.