Happy 83rd Dad! CASPER HISTORY ANGEL A. CASPER – BORN 7/30/1890 – DIED 9/17/73 – BORN IN KAROUTSIS, A SMALL VILLAGE IN GREECE – SENT TO LIVE WITH COUSIN AND WORK IN COPPER MINE FROM AGE 10-20 – MOST OF HIS PAY WAS SENT TO HIS FAMILY - SOMEHOW HE SAVED ENOUGH TO COME TO AMERICA – I AM NOT SURE WHAT THE REASON WAS BUT THE VILLIAGE WAS BURNED TO THE GROUND BY THE GERMANS IN 1944 – FROM 1910 TO 1924 HE WORKED IN MANY JOBS IN MANY LOCATIONS, MOSTLY IN SAWMILLS AND RAILROADS – HE PROVIDED DOWRYS FOR HIS 2 SISTERS AND PAID OFF A DEAD HORSE FOR HIS FATHER – IN 1924 HE SETTLED IN MILWAUKEE AND WENT TO WORK FOR A FELLOW GREEK NAMED LOUIS ANDREW WHO HAD FOUNDED DELTA PRINTING – WHEN MR. ANDREW DECIDED TO MOVE TO NEW YORK MY FATHER TOOK OVER THE SHOP – IN 1926 LEFT THE SHOP IN THE HANDS OF HIS BROTHER GEORGE WHO HAD FOLLOWED ANGEL TO AMERICA AND WENT TO GREECE TO FIND A BRIDE – HE FOUND MY MOTHER ASPAISIA KARADEMAS LIVING AND WORKING WITH HER PARENTS IN A HALFWAY HOUSE – THEY MARRIED IN GREECE AND RETURNED TO AMERICA AND THE PRINT SHOP WHERE HE WORKED UNTIL 1969 – 2 SONS – ALEXANDER IN 1927 AND ATHEN IN 1930 WERE BORN OF THIS UNION – ASPAISIA CONTRACTED TUBERCULOSIS AND DIED WHEN I WAS 3 MONTHS OLD – MY FATHERS BEST FRIEND PERICLES STATHAS HAD A NEIGHBOR WHO BABY SAT ME DURING THE LAST MONTHS OF MY MOTHERS LIFE – WHEN MY MOTHER DIED MY FATHER, BROTHER AND ME MOVED IN WITH THE GUENTHERS AND LIVED WITH THEM FOR 10 YEARS UNTIL MY FATHER MARRIED A WIDOW – THEANO STEFANOS WHO DIED IN 1986 AT THE AGE OF 92 – THE NAME CASPER WAS THE RESULT OF MANY PAYMASTERS THAT KEPT SHORTENING HIS NAME UNTIL IT BECAME CASPER – IN HINDSIGHT MY FATHER WOULD HAVE CHANGED IT TO KAPSOS.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 23:06:50 +0000
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