The railway age · Emigration
A quiet line from Myloi to Chicago
1922–1961 Probable
Apart from Mila and the Kouvalis brothers, other threads lead from Myloi to Chicago. In 1922 a man in Chicago sent greetings in a New York Greek paper on the wedding of a bride "from Myloi of Argos", and in 1961 the Argos paper Aspis mourned a fellow villager who had died in Chicago, brother of a former community president.
- Where
- Myloi (the village)
- Threads
- Emigration
- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Sources
- Ατλαντίς (New York), 23-06-1922, σ. 6 Open (opens in a new tab)
- Άσπις του Άργους, 12-02-1961 Open (opens in a new tab)
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1902
Zacharia Mila, the first known emigrant, goes to Chicago
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1906
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1909–1914
Young men from "Myli" and "Mylous" on the Ellis Island lists
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