Jacob ZYSKOWSKI

                      Aka John Brown or John Z. Brown.  Occupation: Miner/laborer.
Emigrated to the U.S. from Hamburg on or about 21 June 1905, arriving NewYork
on 5 July 1905aboard the vessel PISA with his wife, Paulina, and fourchildren.
He petitioned for U.S. citzenship on 24 Sept. 1906 at Trinidad, Colo.
Residence was Starkville, Colo.  His petition was denied on 3 Oct. 1912,reason,
"It appearing Jan Ziskowski permanently removed from state."  I do notknow if
he acquired citizenship at a later date in Denver or not.  In Denver, heworked
as a handymanin a hotel or boardinghouse until his death.
                  

                   OCCUPATION: Coal Miner. 
NATURALIZATION: Naturalized citizen 1897 in Trinidad, Colo. 
NAME: True name appears to be Braun or Bruno Zyskowski but he went by the name of John Henry Brown "for easier to say".  Don't know if name was legally changed. 
EMIGRATION: Estimated emigration date: 1891 +/- 6 months.  

May have resided in Ironwood, Mich. when first arrived in U.S.  May have had brother Frank with him(child). 
Cause of death: Cancer of bowels (10 days to death from onset) Prostatitis (2 years). No autopsy performed.
He had no Social Security No. and no service in the U.S. armed forces
Info. on death cert. supplied by his daughter, Mrs. Faye Fairchilds of Pensacola Florida.  Unable to trace Faye as of 1989.
                  

                   Occupation: Coal Miner.  Killed in a mine explosion at Starkville, Colo.
Entered U.S. as a child of about 8 yrs. around 1891 (+/- 6 months).  May
have accompanied brother, Brown Z., when he emigrated.  No proof as of1989.
                  

                   Occupation: Coal Miner/Machinist.  Legally changed his name to Joseph Z.Brown.
when he received his naturalization papers in Trinidad, Colo. on 12 Oct.1904.
Belonged to the Elks & Masonic Lodges, possibly in Denver.  Cause of death:
Kidney failure.  Information obtained from interview of daughter, Wanda Brown,
at Playa del Rey, Calif. on 5 Jan 1988 and court records of Las Animas county at
Trinidad, Colo.
                  

                   Emigrated to U.S. 1909.  Is probably a half-sister of the brothers.  See
1910 U.S. Census for Delagua, Las Animas Co., Colo. sheet 1A, house # 411.