Membership Card

Name/Title

Membership Card

Entry/Object ID

2023.53.3

Description

Membership card, declaring that Anna C. Jencik was a member of the Willimantic Mills Employees Benefit Association. Willimantic Mills refers to the Willimantic, CT, plant of the American Thread Company. The card is dated 1942.

Collection

Jencik-Janosack Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Card, Membership

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Card, Identification

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Personal Identification

Nomenclature Class

Personal Symbols

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Location

Location

Box

Document Box 1

Room

Dunham Hall Library Reading Room

* Untyped Location

Main Museum Building

Category

Storage

Date

December 16, 2023

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Donated on behalf of Lorraine Jencik. Lorraine's mother was Anna Janosack Jencik (1903-1990) and her aunt (Anna's younger sister) was Mayme Janosack (b. 1904). Both Anna and Mayme worked for the American Thread Company in the mid-1900s, Anna in the Synthetics Department and Mayme in Packaging. Both Anna and Mayme were born in New York City, the daughters of Slovakian immigrants John Janosack (1873-1946) and Mary Katherine Hoza Janosack (1877-1901). John and Mary, and their eldest daughter Elizabeth (1897-1977) were born in Slovakia, so the Janosacks migrated from Slovakia to New York sometime between 1897 and 1903. They subsequently moved to Franklin, CT, were they were recorded in the 1920 U.S. Census. John was a farmer. Mayme never married, but Anna wed Emil Jencik (1905-1972) sometime between 1930 (the Census recorded her living with her parents) and 1935, when her son Albert was born.

Created By

historian@millmuseum.org

Create Date

December 16, 2023

Updated By

historian@millmuseum.org

Update Date

December 30, 2023