aka HATTIE E. OSTAPOWITZ
A former New Britain school teacher.
She was the unmarried daughter of Francis & Wanda (Skopowska) Ostapowitz.
Hattie came to America at Ellis Island from Austria in 1903 shortly after her birth along with her brothers and sisters as young children, but their parents did not come with them. The reason is unknown.
Instead, they traveled here with and were raised here by their grandmother,Teodozia E. Skopowska; and their Aunt Jadwiza T. Skopowska, who was the unmarried sister of their mother.
Hattie's original surname was OSTAPOWITZ, but she and her sibling's surname was "Americanized" and shortened to OSTEN from its original spelling of OSTAPOWITZ at some point shortly after 1910, approximately.
Her siblings were:
James M. Osten (1892-1968)
Wanda F. (Osten) Finley (1894-1979)
Theodore M. Osten (1897-1909)
aka HATTIE E. OSTAPOWITZ
A former New Britain school teacher.
She was the unmarried daughter of Francis & Wanda (Skopowska) Ostapowitz.
Hattie came to America at Ellis Island from Austria in 1903 shortly after her birth along with her brothers and sisters as young children, but their parents did not come with them. The reason is unknown.
Instead, they traveled here with and were raised here by their grandmother,Teodozia E. Skopowska; and their Aunt Jadwiza T. Skopowska, who was the unmarried sister of their mother.
Hattie's original surname was OSTAPOWITZ, but she and her sibling's surname was "Americanized" and shortened to OSTEN from its original spelling of OSTAPOWITZ at some point shortly after 1910, approximately.
Her siblings were:
James M. Osten (1892-1968)
Wanda F. (Osten) Finley (1894-1979)
Theodore M. Osten (1897-1909)
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