Aptacy, Joseph
(Oct. 10, 1888 - )
Rolling mill workerJoseph Aptacy, who was bom October 10, 1888, on a farm in a village named Tatary east of Kadzidlo, Poland, the son of Michael and Anna Aptacy, wasted no time in planting his roots in the industrial center of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. On October 6, 1909, a little more than two years after he arrived in New York from Rotterdam, Holland, on the Nieuw Amsterdam, he married a mill worker in Bridgeport named Alexandra (later Alice) Tuminski, who had come to this country four years before him from Szafranki in Poland, and set up housekeeping in Conshohocken, where their two children were born - Stella, July 15, 1910, and Adam, December 24, 1915. Joseph Aptacy was probably related to Frank Aptacy in Turner Falls, and Frank Aptacy in Webster, both in Massachusetts, and Peter Aptacy in Detroit, Michigan, for persons of the same name, 132 of 203 in 1990, were closely tied together in Ostroleka, where Joseph Aptacy was born. The origin of the name is unknown.
Adam Aptacy followed closely on his father's heels in a Conshocken rolling mill. He worked in the shops of John Wood Company lying along the Schuylkill River in Conshohocken for thirty years and after that, until he retired in 1981, for Alco Standard Company in Oaks, farther up the river. He also played football for Polish teams and was awarded the Purple Heart for action in World War II. He had two children, Frank and Bernardine, with Helen Bruzda, to whom he was married for 55 years. He died April 2, 2002.
From: Edward Pinkowski (2009) on the base of Ancestry.com; Norristown Times Herald, Aprii 4, 2002; Jozef Aptacy Petition for Naturalization No. 4062, and Montgomery County Marriage Records, No. 36, p. 580, Montgomery County.