Dysarz, Theophilus Theodore, M.D.
(Sept. 3, 1888 - Nov. 5, 1973)
Physician and surgeonHe was born in Buffalo, New York, the eldest of seven children of Joseph Dysarz and Antonia Malewski. His education in the public schools of Buffalo was followed with graduation from the medical department of the University of Buffalo in 1913. He served his internship at Buffalo General Hospital and then joined Dr. Stanley Smigel in Cleveland, Ohio. The partnership lasted until 1914 when he formed a new one with Dr. S.P. Lukaszewski, a well known physician of Detroit, with whom he remained for a short time. As his practice grew, he built a small medical center in Hamtramck, including X-ray equipment, operating room, and the finest suites of offices in Michigan. He joined the staff of St. Mary's Hospital. In 1914, he married Veronica Danilowski of Buffalo, with whom he would have two children, and brought her to Hamtramck, Michigan, where eighty percent of the population was of Polish ancestry by 1930 due to the expanding automobile industry. Dodge had a plant there that employed thousands of Poles and turned out cars and parts for other car makers.
Detroit, the city wrapped around Hamtramck, was an ideal place to have a Polish daily newspaper, and Dr. Dysarz invested in Trybuna Codzienna (Polish Daily Tribune) with Casimir Jankowski, a well-known lawyer of Detroit, in the early 1920s. He was also a director of the First State Bank of Hamtramck. At the same time, he served as health commissioner of Hamtramck.
His energy, enterprising spirit, and ambition brought him success and prominence in his profession that few Polish doctors enjoyed. When the Polish population declined, he retired and moved to the sunny climes of Miami, Florida, where he died.
From: Edward Pinkowski (2009)
Dysarz, T. T.
Physician. Medical Examiner of P.N.A. in Hamtramck, Mich.
Residence: 10338 Jos. Campau Ave., Hamtramck, Mich.From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943