Joseph Kubisz

Józef Kubisz (14 March 18856 November 1940) was an Austro-Hungarian and Polish diplomat in the United States. During the years 1919 to 1933 he held the post of Polish consul in New York City, Pittsburgh and Chicago.

Kubisz was born on 14 March 1885 in Konska, Cieszyn Silesia, into an agricultural family. He was the son of Paweł Kubisz (born 1831) and Ewa Zielina (1851–1928). He attended primary school in Konska and the Protestant gymnasium in Cieszyn. Józef Kubisz served as a volunteer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He was the Austro-Hungarian diplomat in the United States.

In 1919 he was accepted into the Polish consular service and worked in New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago. Before leaving for the U.S., he lived in Warsaw. According to U.S. immigration records, his arrival was on 2 June 1919 (Ship Canada from Marseilles to New York). In 1930, according to U.S. Census records, he was living in Pittsburgh. He returned to Poland in 1933, where he worked at the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs in Warsaw (until 1939).

He married Helen E Hojka; she was a descendant of Polish emigrants to the United States. The wedding ceremony took a place on 19 May 1925 in Cook County. They had no children.

He died on 6 November 1940 in Chicago at age 55 and was buried on 11 November 1940 in Saint Adalbert Catholic Cemetery in Niles, Cook County.

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