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Father Joseph Murgas with young members of his church, Wilkes-Barre, PA, circa 1920.
...Murgas devoted his considerable energies to his parishioners, natural science, and Slovak independence from Austria-Hungary. A signatory of the 1918 Pittsburgh Agreement, which called for the creation of an independent state of autonomous Czech and Slovak regions,...
Joseph Murgas seated with a group of young parish girls wearing white dresses. Five men line the back row of this photograph.
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Joseph Murgas commemorative stamp, issued by Slovakia in 1939.
...Murgas devoted his considerable energies to his parishioners, natural science, and Slovak independence from Austria-Hungary. A signatory of the 1918 Pittsburgh Agreement, which called for the creation of an independent state of autonomous Czech and Slovak regions,...
Joseph Murgas commemorative stamp
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...Murgas attended art school in Munich. A man of multiple talents, he financed his experiments in wireless telegraphy in Wilkes-Barre by selling his own paintings. After ending those experiments he continued to paint and write poetry. An avid fisherman–he registered a...
Slovak neighborhood, exterior homes and surrounding grounds
