Edward Pinkowski
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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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.