The name of the house where he was raised was “Lilkov”. (Novi Svet 5/47) He survived the form of small pox called “Black Pox” when he was three years old. ®28 He emigrated in 1899 ®27 at the age of 20 to Ely, Minnesota. In 1900 he was a 21 year old single iron miner who lived with his brother John and John's wife Johanna in the First Ward of the city of Ely. ®27 In 1907 he and his brothers Anton Matkovich and Martin Matkovich lived at the home of John Tomachich (his brother-in-law John Tomazin) in Ely. He returned to Slovenia to marry Mary Vertin in 1907, and by 1908 they had returned to Virginia, Minnesota where in 1910 he was a miner at the Bessemer mine. On the 30 April 1910 US Census he was a 29 year old iron miner who lived with Mary, 21, at the Lone Jack Location of the Missabe Mountain Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Next door to them lived his brother Martin and wife Theresa. ®1240 In 1912 he was a trammer at the Norman mine and lived at the Commodore Location, Virginia, Minnesota, where he and Mary had his brothers Anton, Frank and Peter as boarders. In 1913 they lived at 121 Poplar Street, Virginia, Minnesota. ®1241 In 1917 he was a miner and they had moved to 120 South 3rd Street, Virginia, Minnesota, where he and then his widow lived the rest of their lives. He died at home at 9:35 AM of a myocardial infarction. He was a drill operator for the Oliver Iron Mining Company. He was a naturalized citizen. He was never in the U. S. Military.

Naturalization papers.