Documents of Macedonian Immigration

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2nd Class Passengers of the "Olympic" ship coming to the Americas in 1912:

Macedonian Passengers

Name Last Place of Residence/Destination
Filip Bojnoff, 31 Klabusitza, Macedonia to Wordville, Ohio
Velian Gossoff, 38 Klabusitza, Macedonia to Syracuse, New York
Tanas Iloff, 29 Kladovabi, Macedonia to Battle Creek, Michigan
Todor Ivanoff, 32 Kladovabi, Macedonia to Champion, Pennsylvania
Costa Ivanoff, 25
Nicola Ivanoff, 24
Bogoja Kristoff, 34 Kladovabi, Macedonia to Battle Creek, Michigan
Kole Ristoff, 30 Klabusitza, Macedonia to Syracuse, New York
Christo Storanoff, 26 Kalenik, Macedonia to Wordville, Ohio
Andon Tanos, 30 Klabusitza, Macedonia to Syracuse, New York
Gligor Vanoff, 23 Klabusitza, Macedonia to Wordville, Ohio

Macedonian Passengers – Forward Berths
Name Last Place of Residence/
Destination
Tanko Andreeff, 35 Mogilots, Macedonia to Valley Park, California
Vassil Christo, 17 Nissi, Macedonia to Delaware, Ohio
Gligor Colo, 13 Nissi, Macedonia to Delaware, Ohio
Petre Constantinoff, 45 Valdova, Macedonia to Indianapolis, Indiana
August Costa, 17 Novrokop, Macedonia to New York City
Nikola Eftimoff, 23 Perova, Macedonia to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pentecy Georghi, 32 Madova, Macedonia to Delaware, Ohio
Canas Georghi, 17
Spiro Gheorgieff, 20 Bouf, Macedonia to Detroit, Michigan
Athayas Jovan, 17 Brusnik, Macedonia to Granite City, Illinois
Tans Kreteff, 32 Perletio, Macedonia Chicago, Illinois
Simo Krstoff, 30 Bouf, Macedonia to Portland, Oregon
Tache Mitsoff, 18 Valdova, Macedonia to Indianapolis, Indiana
Iry Otze, 32 Brusnik, Macedonia to Granite City, Illinois
Stefo Petroff, 16 Bouf, Macedonia to Barberton, Ohio

Macedonian Passengers
Name Last Place of Residence/Destination
Nicola Dimitri, 30 Matimere, Macedonia to Fairmount, Illinois
Havre Petre, 19 Sora, Macedonia to East Hammond, Indiana
Todor Riste, 29 Hinista, Macedonia to Fairmount, Illinois
Riste Sveado, 25 Matimere, Macedonia to Fairmount, Illinois

Macedonian Passengers – Forward Berths
Name Last Place of Residence/Destination
Gligor Christoff, 26 Baptchor, Macedonia to Syracuse, New York
Grigor Dimitri, 17 Monastis, Macedonia to Granite City, Illinois
Vassil Dimitroff, 26 Baptchor, Macedonia to Fort Wayne, Indiana
Tanas Lazoff, 19 Baptchor, Macedonia to Fort Wayne, Indiana
Kiril Manoloff, 19 Dranoveno, Macedonia to Madison, Illinois
Vassil Sotiroff, 19 Baptchor, Macedonia to Fort Wayne, Indiana
Gheorghi Sotiroff, 18
Kouso Stoganoff, 26 Aposkop, Macedonia to Madison, Illinois
Dan Voteff, 19 Baptchor, Macedonia to Syracuse, New York
Ilia Yanoff, 19 Gabrech, Macedonia to Madison, Illinois

Macedonian Passengers – Aft Berths
Name Last Place of Residence/
Destination
Nicole Ivantch, 29 Monastis, Macedonia to Granite City, Illinois

http://www.titanic1.org/articles/pdfs/Crossing17-September19-26-1912V2.pdf

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Here is "The Annual Register of Wheaton College" in Wheaton, Illinoise. The school year is 1895-1896. One of the students for that year is:

Kosta Demeter Momiroff. He was a senior that year and was a student of the Department of Liberal Arts (Classical, Scientific and Literary). He listed his place of birth as "Monaster, Macedonia."

http://espace.wheaton.edu/lr/a-sc/archives/publications/catalogs/1895-1896catalog.pdf

He knew what he was.

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I find this paper has some very useful information, it is worth the read:

The Historicat Photograph: Artlfact-Testament-Tert
William H. Brown
A thesis subrnitted in conformity with the requirements
for the degree of Master of Arts
Department of Theory and Policy Studies
Ontario lnsütute for Studies in Education of the
University of Toronto
@ Copyright by William H. Brown 1998

(Part of his paper is, in part, based on Lillian Petroff's "Sojourners and Settlers: The Macedonian COmmunity in Toronto to 1940"

Here are some relevant quotes (there are many, many, many more in here):

The individual subjects in these two images are not named. Their identities are
relegated to a group identity - "Macedonian" in Photograph #l and 'Bulgarian" in
Photograph #2. Startifig with the City Directory for 191 2, the address of the
Photograph #I was indeed the "Panto Nicola Restaurant" at 356 King Street East.

Secondly, as wial the photographs' summary labels, the Tax Assessrnent Rolls
identity Macedonian "tenantsn in groups and not as individuals. Where they worked or
what aiey did for a living was, apparently, of no parücular interest to those who
collected the information. Identifying the "occupations" as 'Macedonian" may also
suggest dismissal: these houses with "vatious tenants" could be passed over.

Macedonian sojourners who were 'used to avoiding Ottoman authorities. tried
at first to evade Canadian officialdom as well." "Macedonians disappeared within
official listings. obliterated by Canadian use of inadequate passport definitions of their
nationality - as Bulgarian, Greek, Serb or Turk - in governrnent indices of population.
Compilers of city directories in Toronto were apt to list Slavic boarding-house
denizens as foreigners." Petroff concludes that 'Macedonians in North America
sought officia1 non-existence.

The city census figures list Bulgarians and Rumanians" together. Macedonians
are not named specifically. The broad category, Foreign-bom," included a wide
selection of subjects from Europe and Asia.s An interna1 census conducted by the
Macedonian community in 191 0 lists 1,094 individuals, "mostly sojourners - bachelors
or unaccompanied married men..

The Macedonian sojourners were
subjected to systemic abuse both verbal and physical. They were
accused of taking jobs away from Canadian workers.

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/11852/1/MQ33980.pdf

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US Court Case from 1931

The Macedonian-born man was "charged in the warrant of
arrest and in the issuing of an order for the deportation
of each of Ihem, on the ground that each
is a member of an organization, association, society,
or group that believes in, advocates, and teaches
the overthrow by force and violence of the government
of the United States." Essentially, they were charged with being communists.

"Atanos Liboshonoff, alias Tom Evanoff;
born February 25, 1888, at Eginitja, Macedonia,
Greece; alien; is single; laborer by occupation;
alleges landing at Galveston, Texas, in 1908. At
the beginning of the formal hearing, alien admitted
his alienage, but thereafter, on advice
of his attorney, refused to testify or answer
questions. Government's Exhibition 38 is his
membership book in the Communist Party of
the United States of America, issued in the name
of Tom Evanoff, showing dues stamps paid from
January to August, 1930, inclusive.

There was also this man born in "Jugoslavia":

"VASIL GOSHEFF
Age, 42; born at Kriveny, Jugo-Slavia; single;
occupation, laborer. Alleges arrival in New
York in 1907. Government's Exhibit No. 12 is
the sworn statement of the alien, in which he
admits his alienage and that he has been since
1924 a member of the Communist Party of the
United States of America. He also admits that
he sold various Communistic publications. Admits
that he believes in all of the propaganda
expounded in the book "ABC of Communism".
He also admits activity in getting subscriptions
for the newspaper "Saznani", a foreign language
Communist paper, and that he has acted as
chairman on various committees in the Communist
Party. Government's Exhibit 41 is Membership
Book No. 674 of the Communist Party
of the United States, issued on January 8, 1930,
wliich discloses that he entered the revolutionary
movement in 1913, and was admitted into
the party January, 1923. It also bears dues
stamps from January, 1930, to and including
August, 1930. Government's Exhibit 39 is his
membership book in the Trade Union Unity
League. Not a word of his activity or connection
with this association was refuted by the
alien. His attorney refused to permit him to
testify or to make any statements. Consequently,
this overwhelming documentary evidence,
as well as his own sworn statement, stands undisputed."

https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/ca9/briefs/govuscourtsca9briefs1700/gov.uscourts.ca9.06375.b.03.pdf

Here is partial testimony:

Q. What is your full name ?
A. Tom Evanoff. It was Atanas Liboshonoff in
the old country, but I changed it ; it was so long.
Q. You use the name of Tom Evanoff in this
country? A. Yes, sure.
Q. How old are you?' A. Forty-two.
Q. And the date of your birth?
A. February 25, 1888.
Q. Where were you born?
A. In Macedonia. It is under Greece now.
Q. What town in Macedonia?
A. The Turks call it Pazar; the Bulgarians call
it Enidje Vardar; and the Greeks call it Eginitja.
It is in Greece now.
Q. Are your father or mother living?
A. No, neither one.
Q. Have you any brothers or sisters ?
A. I have.
Q. Give the name of one of your brothers and his
address ?
A. Bozen Liboshonoff. He emigrated to Bulgaria.
Q. What town?
A. I haven't had a letter from him for years.
Q. Do you know the name of any of your brothers
that are still living in Greece?
A. They all went to Bulgaria—some are in Varnas
and some in other towns.
Q. When did you come over to the United States ?
A. 1908. I spent Christmas of 1907 in Baltimore
and New Years of 1908 in Galveston, Texas.

Q. I am a United States Immigration Officer, and
as such it is my duty to inquii'e into your right to
be and remain in the United States. What is yoiu"
full namef
A. My full name is Vasil Goshe:ff.
Q. Where were you bom?
A. Born in Macedonia.
Q. What town?
A. Kriveny. that is four miles from the town of
Ressan.
Q. What country does that particular section of
Macedonia belong to now? A. Jugoslavia.
Q. Are you married? A. Single.
Q. What is your lather's name? A. Coche.
Q. Where is he now? A. He is in Ki-iveny.
Q. Where was he born?
A. He was born there where I was bom.
Q. Did your father ever live in the United
States? A. X'o.
r.s. R. P. Bonham. 49
Q. When did you come to the United States?
A. In 1907.

https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/ca9/briefs/govuscourtsca9briefs1700/gov.uscourts.ca9.06375.b.01.pdf

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People buried in Springfield Township cemeteries in Ohio. Here is a man whose listed birthplace is Macedonia:

Theodore Atahnasescu: born 1891, died 1920.

There are many people who listed their birthplace as Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria that may be Macedonian: Gordon Evanoff, Angelo Metroff, Gordon Stefanoff, George Lazarides, Steve Petro, and Louie Melenkovich.

http://sc.akronlibrary.org/files/2013/05/SpringfieldCemeteries.pdf

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The following is a list of people, with the last names starting with M, arriving at Quebec Ports on passenger ships, who listed their country of birth as Macedonia between July 31 1903 and October 13 1910, and I also included those who listed their country of birth as Turkey but had Macedonian sounding names.

Dean Metse, from Macedonia, age 30, arrived on July 14, 1907 on the Dominion.

Atannes Meritrossian, age 40, from Turkey, arrived on May 15, 1909 on the Sardinian.

George Metseff, age 38, from Turkey, arrived on Jul 17, 1910 on the Mount Temple.

There are also those who listed Bulgaria as their country of origin who may be Macedonian: Michael Metroff, Nicola Mencoff, Detcho Menhoff, Nedsetscho Menoff, Drages Mentchoff, Christo Mentscheff, among others.

http://members.shaw.ca/nfhs_fodh/z182.pdf

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I don't know if this has been posted:

Mining Fatalities in Colorado 1844-1981

These three men declared their nationality as Macedonian even though Macedonia wasn't independent at the time.

John Denny died June 15, 1921 at age 37. He was single. He died by being pulled by a derailed push car.

Frank Elleff died August 1, 1914 at age 24. He was married. He died from falling coal.

George Ristoff died March 15, 1913 at the age of 22. He was married. He died from falling rock. His alias was George Stenanoff.

There are many other people who had their nationalities listed as
Bulgarian, Slav, Slavonian, Yugoslav or Servian. With surnames like
"Todoroff, Siminoff, Nikola, Nedelschoff, Evanoff, Metroff and Kosteff"
(all of which I know ethnic Macedonians in the US to have as last names). However, I only included information about those whose nationality was declared Macedonian even though Macedonia wasn't its own country during those times.

https://history.denverlibrary.org/sites/history/files/COindexMine1_0.pdf

[Soldier of Macedon]

This below Wikipedia link in Macedonian has plenty of information regarding the Macedonian emigration to Bulgaria.

http://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0

[George S.]

Vic tor that is an awesome find.That puts down the theories and propaganda from greeks
and Bulgarians and we are neither of them but Macedonians.

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As Macedonian immigrants arrived to U.S. they were living the full freedom od self determination.

From the beginning of the I World War in 1914, the U.S.A. holded up a neutral position and managed to kept itself away being involved in the "Big War".

But that position was abandoned in 1917, when 24 millions od American recruits were sent to participate in the war.

Among those recruits were soldiers of Macedonian origin from Ohio.

Facing the opportunity to declare themself as "Bulgarians" and to avoid the recruitation, they chosed to remain Macedonians, and gave their lives in the war.

According to the proclamation of the President of the U.S.A., Woodrow Wilson, all man of German origin, including the allies of Germany, were declared as alienated enemies and were discharged from army service.

So, Bulgaria as a German ally was included in this proclamation of the U.S. President. All man of Bugarian origin were released from the recruitation.

These brave Macedonians, chosed to fight in this war along with the American troops, and to die only as MACEDONIANS

PointOfInterest: 1924 State of MACEDONIA

I'm quite proud of this, as Tale Metroff is my mom's grandpa. It's an awesome feeling to know that even though Podmocani, Macedonia had changed hands between the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria and Serbia throughout his time, my Great-Grandpa declared Macedonia as his homeland despite the fact it was not a recognized country.

[TrueMacedonian]

"Macedonia, the land of sturdy and diligent workers, was no longer on the banks of the Vardar river, but in New York, in Granite City where one soon counted 35,000 Macedonians" (Risal 1917; 276).

La ville convoitée, Salonique - P. Risal

[TrueMacedonian]

This was printed in 1909.

page 111

[George S.]

Yeah the greeks will do anything it takes to disprove the existence of macedonians.Even pay someone to alter vital documents.They'll pay (bribe) people to make it all sound greek.
Makgerman you make agood point with that article no body wamt's the macedonians.

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"Macedonians are unlucky, no country wants them" as written in a Milwaukee Journal article in 1932.

USA's stance hasn't changed!

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GahQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2CEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3586%2C3343277

[George S.]

Wwe need the original script we don't need one that has been manipulated can be made to say anything.