Croatian Fraternal Union
100 Delaney Drive
Pittsburgh
,
Pennsylvania
15235
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Croatian Fraternal Union, Pittsburgh
Late in the fall of the year 1893, a young man of 25 years came to Pittsburgh from Chicago, imbued with the two ideas, first to establish a Croatian newspaper, and second, to organize a society of mutual aid to Croatian people in this country. The young man was Zdravko V. Muzina, who had been living in Chicago for approximately a year prior to moving to Pittsburgh, PA. In Chicago he had been working for a Croatian newspaper, edited and published by Nikola Polic, one of the first to establish a Croatian newspaper in the United States, but differences of opinion over editorial policy led young Muzina to seek broader expression elsewhere. While in Chicago, he had heard of the National Slovak Society and what it had been doing for the Slovaks in the United States. He felt strongly that the Croatians needed a similar organization to provide for the people in the event of sickness or death.
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