Dr. Kowalewski was born May 19, 1810 in Plock, now central Poland as Kajetan Piotr Celestyn Kowalewski. Parents: Franciszek Kowalewski and Balbina nee Wazyñska. He had four younger sisters, probably by a different mother.
After the Polish-Russian war of 1830-31 Kajetan Kowalewski emigrated to Aberdeen, Scotland and later to Ireland.
Kajetan Peter Dolega Kowalewski married Maria Henrietta Dillon in 1838, Dublin, Ireland (see Dublin marriages' index to the right). The "Dolega" part of Dr. K's name on Dublin marriages' index is not a last name, it is a coat of arms. It should be spelled with special Polish characters: an l with a slash and an e with a tail and is pronounced [doh'wangah]. Only some people with noble ancestry use it in front of their last name. It is not a part of their birth certificate. (Courtesy of Dorota Jarosz.)
By 1840, he has settled West of the Escambia River, Escambia, in Florida Territory, most likely in Pensacola; his wife and young daughter, Balbina V., would join him in 1841. A son, Richard Gaudrie Kowalewski, was born to the couple in 1844; tragically, this young man died in 1859 at the young age of fifteen, few months after he entered the Jesuit run Spring Hill College. Daughter Balbina V. Kowalewski, born in 1839, became the wife of William G. Beck 19 July 1859 in Mobile, Alabama. Two children were born to Balbina V.: Balbina V. and Frank Kowalewski Beck. Balbina V. Beck went on to marry Alexander McCarty and, later as a widow, she married Frederick G. Stickney. Frank K. Beck would follow in the footsteps of his grandfather becoming a physician and surgeon.
Dr. K. Kowaleski, given name and surname are spelled differently according to source, who studied in Paris and also graduated at Medical College of Louisiana in New Orleans (now Tulane University) in 1842, practiced medicine in Pensacola, Florida, Mobile, Alabama, and from 1848 on in New Orleans, Louisiana. His office was at first at 126 Canal Street, and later at 341 Old Levee Street, now Decatur St., near the Mint. He was a secretary of Washington Lodge No. 3 of the I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) for several terms, he also served as a doctor on the board of the Portuguese Benevolent Society.
His wife, Madam Maria Kovaleski was an accomplished musician, admired from childhood. She organized a singing school in Pensacola, Florida and became church organist in Mobile, Alabama, where she worked for 50 years. See more on Maria at her granddaughter's memorial.
Maria divorced Dr. K. Kowaleski in 1850. May 5th, 1853 he married Heloise Sophie Lerouge, who arrived to New Orleans with her mother in 1850. After Dr. Kovaleski died in 1864, the widow Heloise nee Lerouge, with her mother Fanny, moved in with her sister's Clementine Buckholdtz family in Sandy Creek, Pennsylvania. In 1871 she married Wilbur S. Brown (b.1842 New York). Two children were born to the couple: Clinton (1873) and Bertha (1875).
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Medical Notice.
Dr. Kovaleski being regularly licensed to practice in the various branches of Medicine, Surgenry [sic] and Midwifery, offers his professional services to the citizen of Pensacola.
Dr. K. has just obtained from New Orleans a fresh supply of Cow-Pock matter, and will be inoculating at his office at the National Hotel, each day from 8 o’clock till 11, in the forenoon. He scarcely need remind the citizens that it is advisable to have their children inocculated [sic] before the hot season of the year. Pensacola, May 16, 1840-7-3w* (Pensacola Gazette, Pensacola, Florida, 23 May 1840, Page 3, May 16, 1840)(Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
DOCTOR K. KOVALESKI,
Practitioner of Physic, Surgery and Midwifery,
Resides on Church-street, near the Episcopal Church.
Dr. K. has rented a commodious house on Intendentia-street for a HOSPITAL, to which he is ready to take patients at the rate of two dollars per day; for this sum, Dr. K. will attend on the sick as often as the case will require, will provide with nourishment, nursing and medicines. The patients will bring their own bedding; for washing, wine and the graver surgical operations, an extra charge will be made.
Those wishing to have separate rooms for themselves, will be charged from three to five dollars per day, according to the accommodations they will require.
Pensacola, October 24, 1840 (Pensacola Gazette, 12 December 1840, page 3)(Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
Medical Notice.
Dr. K. Kovaleski respectfully announces to the public that he has located in the city of New Orleans, with the view of making it his permanent place of residence, for the practice of Physic and Surgery. During several years of practice, five of which he resided in Mobile, he became familiar with the diseases peculiar to this climate. While study in Europe he had paid particular attention to fevers, diseases of the lungs, and the diseases of women and children. As an Accoucheur he has a special diploma; he has also graduated at the Medical College of Louisiana.
Dr. K. can be consulted in Polish, English, French, German, Spanish and Italian languages.
Office with Dr. Edday, no. 126 Canal street, near Dr. Hawks’s [sic] church. (Daily Picayune, New Orleans, 29 April 1848, page 3) (Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
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Dr. Kowalewski’s death notice appeared in the French newspaper, The New Orleans Bee/ L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans, 29 August 1864. Image to right; translation by Dorota Jarosz:
Décédé hier soir à 9 heures, à l'âge de 54 ans, le DR K KOVALISKI, natif de Pologne. Les connaissances de la famille sont respectement priés, sans autre invitation, d'attendre aux funérailles qui seront lieu cette après-midi, à quatre heures. Le convoi partira de la maison mortuaire, rue Vieulle Levée, en face de la Monnaie.
Died last night at 9 o'clock, at the age of 54 years, the DR K KOVALISKI, a native of Poland. The family friends are respectfully asked, without further invitation, to attend the funeral which will be held this afternoon at four. The convoy will leave the mortuary house at Vieulle Levée (Old Levee) Street, opposite the Mint.
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Dublin, Ireland, Probate Record and Marriage Licence Index, 1270-1858
Name: Maria Henrietta Dillon
Spouse: Kajetan Peter Dolega Kowalewski
Document Year: 1838
Record Type: Marriage Licence
New Orleans (La.) Justices of the Peace
Index to marriage records, 1846-1880:
Groom: Kejetan Kovaleski
Bride: Heloise Sophie LeRouge
Date: 5 MAR 1853
Call No.: VEE 678
Page: 108
New Orleans, Louisiana, Death Records Index, 1804-1949
Name: Kerotz Kovaleski
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1810
Death Date: 28 Aug 1864
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The obituary of Dr. Kowaleski’s grandson, Dr. Frank Kowalewski Beck, follows:
DEATH OF DR. FRANK K. BECK.
Death is always pathetic, but it is rendered doubly so when the ruthless hand is laid upon a young man full of promise and with a future before him as bright as the noonday sun. Such was Dr. Frank K. Beck, who passed from this life at ten minutes past 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, after two weeks of illness.
About two weeks ago he suffered a stroke [disease: cerebral hemorrhage; duration: twelve days] of paralysis while in his office on St. Francis street.
He was removed to the residence of Mrs. Rachel Heustis, on St. Joseph street, where kind, gentle and willing hands administered to his comfort until the end came. Progressive paralysis set in and although everything born of skill and science was used and the combined efforts of his co-laborers of the medical profession were exhausted, he fell asleep and his spirt was wafted to another world.
Frank Kowalewski Beck was born in Mobile, October 24, 1866, and had consequently just passed the twenty-ninth anniversary of his birth. He spent the early days of his life in Mobile, but when about ten years of age removed with his parents to Marengo county. He received his collegiate training at Marion Military Institute and later entered the Medical College of Alabama, in this city. He was a laborious student and was characterized at the outset as a young man of marked ability. He graduated from the medical college in the class of 1888, and the two years subsequent practiced medicine in Tuskaloosa and Pickens county, where by his geniality and modest trait of character he made innumerable lifelong friends who will be shocked and pained to hear of his untimely death.
During the year 1890 Dr. Beck went to New York and entered Bellevue Hospital to further perfect himself in his chosen profession. He remained there several months, after which he accepted a position as ship’s surgeon with the Royal Netherlands Steamship Line and served in this capacity for nearly a year. During this time he made a number of passages on the large steamships of the company plying between New York and Amsterdam. Still feeling the need of further research into medical and surgical science, he resigned this position and took special courses in hospital and colleges of Belgium and Holland.
When Dr. Beck returned to his native country he entered the United States marine hospital service and was stationed for some time at Portland, Maine.
In 1892 he returned to Mobile and engaged in the practice of medicine. Being a young man of indomitable energy, studious in his habits and with puck and courage to spare, he soon acquired a fine practice and won the esteem and confidence of the people whom he had known in childhood. The travels of Dr. Beck, combined with his natural intellect, equipped him with a vast store of knowledge and rendered him a most agreeable companion. Charitable, frank and honest in dealing with his fellow man, Dr. Beck held the confidence of those who met him in the business world. There was no set of circumstances under which his generous heart did not respond to the call of those in distress, and this sublime quality of character endeared him to all classes. While it is true that death is life’s greatest tragedy, there is an abiding consolation in the fact that a true life never really dies, its virtues will live forever among the throngs of men.
Dr. Beck is survived by his grandmother, Madam Kowalewski, of Mobile, a sister, Mrs. A. F. McCarty, of Demopolis, and hosts of friends in Mobile and elsewhere, who will grieve with them in their irreparable lost.
Notice of the time and place of the funeral will be found elsewhere in this paper (Mobile Register, 8 December 1895, p. 8; copy in possession of Jane Denny).
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daughter: Balbina K Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #69290777 (born circa 1839, Ireland)
son: Richard Gaudrie Kowalewski, Find A Grave Memorial #69291553 (born circa 1844, probably FL)
granddaughter: Balbina V. McCarty Stickney nee Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #142352438
grandson: Dr. Frank Kowaleski Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #69290809 (born 24 October 1866, died 6 September 1895 Mobile, AL)
After the Polish-Russian war of 1830-31 Kajetan Kowalewski emigrated to Aberdeen, Scotland and later to Ireland.
Kajetan Peter Dolega Kowalewski married Maria Henrietta Dillon in 1838, Dublin, Ireland (see Dublin marriages' index to the right). The "Dolega" part of Dr. K's name on Dublin marriages' index is not a last name, it is a coat of arms. It should be spelled with special Polish characters: an l with a slash and an e with a tail and is pronounced [doh'wangah]. Only some people with noble ancestry use it in front of their last name. It is not a part of their birth certificate. (Courtesy of Dorota Jarosz.)
By 1840, he has settled West of the Escambia River, Escambia, in Florida Territory, most likely in Pensacola; his wife and young daughter, Balbina V., would join him in 1841. A son, Richard Gaudrie Kowalewski, was born to the couple in 1844; tragically, this young man died in 1859 at the young age of fifteen, few months after he entered the Jesuit run Spring Hill College. Daughter Balbina V. Kowalewski, born in 1839, became the wife of William G. Beck 19 July 1859 in Mobile, Alabama. Two children were born to Balbina V.: Balbina V. and Frank Kowalewski Beck. Balbina V. Beck went on to marry Alexander McCarty and, later as a widow, she married Frederick G. Stickney. Frank K. Beck would follow in the footsteps of his grandfather becoming a physician and surgeon.
Dr. K. Kowaleski, given name and surname are spelled differently according to source, who studied in Paris and also graduated at Medical College of Louisiana in New Orleans (now Tulane University) in 1842, practiced medicine in Pensacola, Florida, Mobile, Alabama, and from 1848 on in New Orleans, Louisiana. His office was at first at 126 Canal Street, and later at 341 Old Levee Street, now Decatur St., near the Mint. He was a secretary of Washington Lodge No. 3 of the I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) for several terms, he also served as a doctor on the board of the Portuguese Benevolent Society.
His wife, Madam Maria Kovaleski was an accomplished musician, admired from childhood. She organized a singing school in Pensacola, Florida and became church organist in Mobile, Alabama, where she worked for 50 years. See more on Maria at her granddaughter's memorial.
Maria divorced Dr. K. Kowaleski in 1850. May 5th, 1853 he married Heloise Sophie Lerouge, who arrived to New Orleans with her mother in 1850. After Dr. Kovaleski died in 1864, the widow Heloise nee Lerouge, with her mother Fanny, moved in with her sister's Clementine Buckholdtz family in Sandy Creek, Pennsylvania. In 1871 she married Wilbur S. Brown (b.1842 New York). Two children were born to the couple: Clinton (1873) and Bertha (1875).
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Medical Notice.
Dr. Kovaleski being regularly licensed to practice in the various branches of Medicine, Surgenry [sic] and Midwifery, offers his professional services to the citizen of Pensacola.
Dr. K. has just obtained from New Orleans a fresh supply of Cow-Pock matter, and will be inoculating at his office at the National Hotel, each day from 8 o’clock till 11, in the forenoon. He scarcely need remind the citizens that it is advisable to have their children inocculated [sic] before the hot season of the year. Pensacola, May 16, 1840-7-3w* (Pensacola Gazette, Pensacola, Florida, 23 May 1840, Page 3, May 16, 1840)(Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
DOCTOR K. KOVALESKI,
Practitioner of Physic, Surgery and Midwifery,
Resides on Church-street, near the Episcopal Church.
Dr. K. has rented a commodious house on Intendentia-street for a HOSPITAL, to which he is ready to take patients at the rate of two dollars per day; for this sum, Dr. K. will attend on the sick as often as the case will require, will provide with nourishment, nursing and medicines. The patients will bring their own bedding; for washing, wine and the graver surgical operations, an extra charge will be made.
Those wishing to have separate rooms for themselves, will be charged from three to five dollars per day, according to the accommodations they will require.
Pensacola, October 24, 1840 (Pensacola Gazette, 12 December 1840, page 3)(Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
Medical Notice.
Dr. K. Kovaleski respectfully announces to the public that he has located in the city of New Orleans, with the view of making it his permanent place of residence, for the practice of Physic and Surgery. During several years of practice, five of which he resided in Mobile, he became familiar with the diseases peculiar to this climate. While study in Europe he had paid particular attention to fevers, diseases of the lungs, and the diseases of women and children. As an Accoucheur he has a special diploma; he has also graduated at the Medical College of Louisiana.
Dr. K. can be consulted in Polish, English, French, German, Spanish and Italian languages.
Office with Dr. Edday, no. 126 Canal street, near Dr. Hawks’s [sic] church. (Daily Picayune, New Orleans, 29 April 1848, page 3) (Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
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Dr. Kowalewski’s death notice appeared in the French newspaper, The New Orleans Bee/ L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans, 29 August 1864. Image to right; translation by Dorota Jarosz:
Décédé hier soir à 9 heures, à l'âge de 54 ans, le DR K KOVALISKI, natif de Pologne. Les connaissances de la famille sont respectement priés, sans autre invitation, d'attendre aux funérailles qui seront lieu cette après-midi, à quatre heures. Le convoi partira de la maison mortuaire, rue Vieulle Levée, en face de la Monnaie.
Died last night at 9 o'clock, at the age of 54 years, the DR K KOVALISKI, a native of Poland. The family friends are respectfully asked, without further invitation, to attend the funeral which will be held this afternoon at four. The convoy will leave the mortuary house at Vieulle Levée (Old Levee) Street, opposite the Mint.
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Dublin, Ireland, Probate Record and Marriage Licence Index, 1270-1858
Name: Maria Henrietta Dillon
Spouse: Kajetan Peter Dolega Kowalewski
Document Year: 1838
Record Type: Marriage Licence
New Orleans (La.) Justices of the Peace
Index to marriage records, 1846-1880:
Groom: Kejetan Kovaleski
Bride: Heloise Sophie LeRouge
Date: 5 MAR 1853
Call No.: VEE 678
Page: 108
New Orleans, Louisiana, Death Records Index, 1804-1949
Name: Kerotz Kovaleski
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1810
Death Date: 28 Aug 1864
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The obituary of Dr. Kowaleski’s grandson, Dr. Frank Kowalewski Beck, follows:
DEATH OF DR. FRANK K. BECK.
Death is always pathetic, but it is rendered doubly so when the ruthless hand is laid upon a young man full of promise and with a future before him as bright as the noonday sun. Such was Dr. Frank K. Beck, who passed from this life at ten minutes past 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, after two weeks of illness.
About two weeks ago he suffered a stroke [disease: cerebral hemorrhage; duration: twelve days] of paralysis while in his office on St. Francis street.
He was removed to the residence of Mrs. Rachel Heustis, on St. Joseph street, where kind, gentle and willing hands administered to his comfort until the end came. Progressive paralysis set in and although everything born of skill and science was used and the combined efforts of his co-laborers of the medical profession were exhausted, he fell asleep and his spirt was wafted to another world.
Frank Kowalewski Beck was born in Mobile, October 24, 1866, and had consequently just passed the twenty-ninth anniversary of his birth. He spent the early days of his life in Mobile, but when about ten years of age removed with his parents to Marengo county. He received his collegiate training at Marion Military Institute and later entered the Medical College of Alabama, in this city. He was a laborious student and was characterized at the outset as a young man of marked ability. He graduated from the medical college in the class of 1888, and the two years subsequent practiced medicine in Tuskaloosa and Pickens county, where by his geniality and modest trait of character he made innumerable lifelong friends who will be shocked and pained to hear of his untimely death.
During the year 1890 Dr. Beck went to New York and entered Bellevue Hospital to further perfect himself in his chosen profession. He remained there several months, after which he accepted a position as ship’s surgeon with the Royal Netherlands Steamship Line and served in this capacity for nearly a year. During this time he made a number of passages on the large steamships of the company plying between New York and Amsterdam. Still feeling the need of further research into medical and surgical science, he resigned this position and took special courses in hospital and colleges of Belgium and Holland.
When Dr. Beck returned to his native country he entered the United States marine hospital service and was stationed for some time at Portland, Maine.
In 1892 he returned to Mobile and engaged in the practice of medicine. Being a young man of indomitable energy, studious in his habits and with puck and courage to spare, he soon acquired a fine practice and won the esteem and confidence of the people whom he had known in childhood. The travels of Dr. Beck, combined with his natural intellect, equipped him with a vast store of knowledge and rendered him a most agreeable companion. Charitable, frank and honest in dealing with his fellow man, Dr. Beck held the confidence of those who met him in the business world. There was no set of circumstances under which his generous heart did not respond to the call of those in distress, and this sublime quality of character endeared him to all classes. While it is true that death is life’s greatest tragedy, there is an abiding consolation in the fact that a true life never really dies, its virtues will live forever among the throngs of men.
Dr. Beck is survived by his grandmother, Madam Kowalewski, of Mobile, a sister, Mrs. A. F. McCarty, of Demopolis, and hosts of friends in Mobile and elsewhere, who will grieve with them in their irreparable lost.
Notice of the time and place of the funeral will be found elsewhere in this paper (Mobile Register, 8 December 1895, p. 8; copy in possession of Jane Denny).
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daughter: Balbina K Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #69290777 (born circa 1839, Ireland)
son: Richard Gaudrie Kowalewski, Find A Grave Memorial #69291553 (born circa 1844, probably FL)
granddaughter: Balbina V. McCarty Stickney nee Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #142352438
grandson: Dr. Frank Kowaleski Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #69290809 (born 24 October 1866, died 6 September 1895 Mobile, AL)
Dr. Kowalewski was born May 19, 1810 in Plock, now central Poland as Kajetan Piotr Celestyn Kowalewski. Parents: Franciszek Kowalewski and Balbina nee Wazyñska. He had four younger sisters, probably by a different mother.
After the Polish-Russian war of 1830-31 Kajetan Kowalewski emigrated to Aberdeen, Scotland and later to Ireland.
Kajetan Peter Dolega Kowalewski married Maria Henrietta Dillon in 1838, Dublin, Ireland (see Dublin marriages' index to the right). The "Dolega" part of Dr. K's name on Dublin marriages' index is not a last name, it is a coat of arms. It should be spelled with special Polish characters: an l with a slash and an e with a tail and is pronounced [doh'wangah]. Only some people with noble ancestry use it in front of their last name. It is not a part of their birth certificate. (Courtesy of Dorota Jarosz.)
By 1840, he has settled West of the Escambia River, Escambia, in Florida Territory, most likely in Pensacola; his wife and young daughter, Balbina V., would join him in 1841. A son, Richard Gaudrie Kowalewski, was born to the couple in 1844; tragically, this young man died in 1859 at the young age of fifteen, few months after he entered the Jesuit run Spring Hill College. Daughter Balbina V. Kowalewski, born in 1839, became the wife of William G. Beck 19 July 1859 in Mobile, Alabama. Two children were born to Balbina V.: Balbina V. and Frank Kowalewski Beck. Balbina V. Beck went on to marry Alexander McCarty and, later as a widow, she married Frederick G. Stickney. Frank K. Beck would follow in the footsteps of his grandfather becoming a physician and surgeon.
Dr. K. Kowaleski, given name and surname are spelled differently according to source, who studied in Paris and also graduated at Medical College of Louisiana in New Orleans (now Tulane University) in 1842, practiced medicine in Pensacola, Florida, Mobile, Alabama, and from 1848 on in New Orleans, Louisiana. His office was at first at 126 Canal Street, and later at 341 Old Levee Street, now Decatur St., near the Mint. He was a secretary of Washington Lodge No. 3 of the I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) for several terms, he also served as a doctor on the board of the Portuguese Benevolent Society.
His wife, Madam Maria Kovaleski was an accomplished musician, admired from childhood. She organized a singing school in Pensacola, Florida and became church organist in Mobile, Alabama, where she worked for 50 years. See more on Maria at her granddaughter's memorial.
Maria divorced Dr. K. Kowaleski in 1850. May 5th, 1853 he married Heloise Sophie Lerouge, who arrived to New Orleans with her mother in 1850. After Dr. Kovaleski died in 1864, the widow Heloise nee Lerouge, with her mother Fanny, moved in with her sister's Clementine Buckholdtz family in Sandy Creek, Pennsylvania. In 1871 she married Wilbur S. Brown (b.1842 New York). Two children were born to the couple: Clinton (1873) and Bertha (1875).
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Medical Notice.
Dr. Kovaleski being regularly licensed to practice in the various branches of Medicine, Surgenry [sic] and Midwifery, offers his professional services to the citizen of Pensacola.
Dr. K. has just obtained from New Orleans a fresh supply of Cow-Pock matter, and will be inoculating at his office at the National Hotel, each day from 8 o’clock till 11, in the forenoon. He scarcely need remind the citizens that it is advisable to have their children inocculated [sic] before the hot season of the year. Pensacola, May 16, 1840-7-3w* (Pensacola Gazette, Pensacola, Florida, 23 May 1840, Page 3, May 16, 1840)(Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
DOCTOR K. KOVALESKI,
Practitioner of Physic, Surgery and Midwifery,
Resides on Church-street, near the Episcopal Church.
Dr. K. has rented a commodious house on Intendentia-street for a HOSPITAL, to which he is ready to take patients at the rate of two dollars per day; for this sum, Dr. K. will attend on the sick as often as the case will require, will provide with nourishment, nursing and medicines. The patients will bring their own bedding; for washing, wine and the graver surgical operations, an extra charge will be made.
Those wishing to have separate rooms for themselves, will be charged from three to five dollars per day, according to the accommodations they will require.
Pensacola, October 24, 1840 (Pensacola Gazette, 12 December 1840, page 3)(Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
Medical Notice.
Dr. K. Kovaleski respectfully announces to the public that he has located in the city of New Orleans, with the view of making it his permanent place of residence, for the practice of Physic and Surgery. During several years of practice, five of which he resided in Mobile, he became familiar with the diseases peculiar to this climate. While study in Europe he had paid particular attention to fevers, diseases of the lungs, and the diseases of women and children. As an Accoucheur he has a special diploma; he has also graduated at the Medical College of Louisiana.
Dr. K. can be consulted in Polish, English, French, German, Spanish and Italian languages.
Office with Dr. Edday, no. 126 Canal street, near Dr. Hawks’s [sic] church. (Daily Picayune, New Orleans, 29 April 1848, page 3) (Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
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Dr. Kowalewski’s death notice appeared in the French newspaper, The New Orleans Bee/ L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans, 29 August 1864. Image to right; translation by Dorota Jarosz:
Décédé hier soir à 9 heures, à l'âge de 54 ans, le DR K KOVALISKI, natif de Pologne. Les connaissances de la famille sont respectement priés, sans autre invitation, d'attendre aux funérailles qui seront lieu cette après-midi, à quatre heures. Le convoi partira de la maison mortuaire, rue Vieulle Levée, en face de la Monnaie.
Died last night at 9 o'clock, at the age of 54 years, the DR K KOVALISKI, a native of Poland. The family friends are respectfully asked, without further invitation, to attend the funeral which will be held this afternoon at four. The convoy will leave the mortuary house at Vieulle Levée (Old Levee) Street, opposite the Mint.
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Dublin, Ireland, Probate Record and Marriage Licence Index, 1270-1858
Name: Maria Henrietta Dillon
Spouse: Kajetan Peter Dolega Kowalewski
Document Year: 1838
Record Type: Marriage Licence
New Orleans (La.) Justices of the Peace
Index to marriage records, 1846-1880:
Groom: Kejetan Kovaleski
Bride: Heloise Sophie LeRouge
Date: 5 MAR 1853
Call No.: VEE 678
Page: 108
New Orleans, Louisiana, Death Records Index, 1804-1949
Name: Kerotz Kovaleski
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1810
Death Date: 28 Aug 1864
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The obituary of Dr. Kowaleski’s grandson, Dr. Frank Kowalewski Beck, follows:
DEATH OF DR. FRANK K. BECK.
Death is always pathetic, but it is rendered doubly so when the ruthless hand is laid upon a young man full of promise and with a future before him as bright as the noonday sun. Such was Dr. Frank K. Beck, who passed from this life at ten minutes past 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, after two weeks of illness.
About two weeks ago he suffered a stroke [disease: cerebral hemorrhage; duration: twelve days] of paralysis while in his office on St. Francis street.
He was removed to the residence of Mrs. Rachel Heustis, on St. Joseph street, where kind, gentle and willing hands administered to his comfort until the end came. Progressive paralysis set in and although everything born of skill and science was used and the combined efforts of his co-laborers of the medical profession were exhausted, he fell asleep and his spirt was wafted to another world.
Frank Kowalewski Beck was born in Mobile, October 24, 1866, and had consequently just passed the twenty-ninth anniversary of his birth. He spent the early days of his life in Mobile, but when about ten years of age removed with his parents to Marengo county. He received his collegiate training at Marion Military Institute and later entered the Medical College of Alabama, in this city. He was a laborious student and was characterized at the outset as a young man of marked ability. He graduated from the medical college in the class of 1888, and the two years subsequent practiced medicine in Tuskaloosa and Pickens county, where by his geniality and modest trait of character he made innumerable lifelong friends who will be shocked and pained to hear of his untimely death.
During the year 1890 Dr. Beck went to New York and entered Bellevue Hospital to further perfect himself in his chosen profession. He remained there several months, after which he accepted a position as ship’s surgeon with the Royal Netherlands Steamship Line and served in this capacity for nearly a year. During this time he made a number of passages on the large steamships of the company plying between New York and Amsterdam. Still feeling the need of further research into medical and surgical science, he resigned this position and took special courses in hospital and colleges of Belgium and Holland.
When Dr. Beck returned to his native country he entered the United States marine hospital service and was stationed for some time at Portland, Maine.
In 1892 he returned to Mobile and engaged in the practice of medicine. Being a young man of indomitable energy, studious in his habits and with puck and courage to spare, he soon acquired a fine practice and won the esteem and confidence of the people whom he had known in childhood. The travels of Dr. Beck, combined with his natural intellect, equipped him with a vast store of knowledge and rendered him a most agreeable companion. Charitable, frank and honest in dealing with his fellow man, Dr. Beck held the confidence of those who met him in the business world. There was no set of circumstances under which his generous heart did not respond to the call of those in distress, and this sublime quality of character endeared him to all classes. While it is true that death is life’s greatest tragedy, there is an abiding consolation in the fact that a true life never really dies, its virtues will live forever among the throngs of men.
Dr. Beck is survived by his grandmother, Madam Kowalewski, of Mobile, a sister, Mrs. A. F. McCarty, of Demopolis, and hosts of friends in Mobile and elsewhere, who will grieve with them in their irreparable lost.
Notice of the time and place of the funeral will be found elsewhere in this paper (Mobile Register, 8 December 1895, p. 8; copy in possession of Jane Denny).
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daughter: Balbina K Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #69290777 (born circa 1839, Ireland)
son: Richard Gaudrie Kowalewski, Find A Grave Memorial #69291553 (born circa 1844, probably FL)
granddaughter: Balbina V. McCarty Stickney nee Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #142352438
grandson: Dr. Frank Kowaleski Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #69290809 (born 24 October 1866, died 6 September 1895 Mobile, AL)
After the Polish-Russian war of 1830-31 Kajetan Kowalewski emigrated to Aberdeen, Scotland and later to Ireland.
Kajetan Peter Dolega Kowalewski married Maria Henrietta Dillon in 1838, Dublin, Ireland (see Dublin marriages' index to the right). The "Dolega" part of Dr. K's name on Dublin marriages' index is not a last name, it is a coat of arms. It should be spelled with special Polish characters: an l with a slash and an e with a tail and is pronounced [doh'wangah]. Only some people with noble ancestry use it in front of their last name. It is not a part of their birth certificate. (Courtesy of Dorota Jarosz.)
By 1840, he has settled West of the Escambia River, Escambia, in Florida Territory, most likely in Pensacola; his wife and young daughter, Balbina V., would join him in 1841. A son, Richard Gaudrie Kowalewski, was born to the couple in 1844; tragically, this young man died in 1859 at the young age of fifteen, few months after he entered the Jesuit run Spring Hill College. Daughter Balbina V. Kowalewski, born in 1839, became the wife of William G. Beck 19 July 1859 in Mobile, Alabama. Two children were born to Balbina V.: Balbina V. and Frank Kowalewski Beck. Balbina V. Beck went on to marry Alexander McCarty and, later as a widow, she married Frederick G. Stickney. Frank K. Beck would follow in the footsteps of his grandfather becoming a physician and surgeon.
Dr. K. Kowaleski, given name and surname are spelled differently according to source, who studied in Paris and also graduated at Medical College of Louisiana in New Orleans (now Tulane University) in 1842, practiced medicine in Pensacola, Florida, Mobile, Alabama, and from 1848 on in New Orleans, Louisiana. His office was at first at 126 Canal Street, and later at 341 Old Levee Street, now Decatur St., near the Mint. He was a secretary of Washington Lodge No. 3 of the I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) for several terms, he also served as a doctor on the board of the Portuguese Benevolent Society.
His wife, Madam Maria Kovaleski was an accomplished musician, admired from childhood. She organized a singing school in Pensacola, Florida and became church organist in Mobile, Alabama, where she worked for 50 years. See more on Maria at her granddaughter's memorial.
Maria divorced Dr. K. Kowaleski in 1850. May 5th, 1853 he married Heloise Sophie Lerouge, who arrived to New Orleans with her mother in 1850. After Dr. Kovaleski died in 1864, the widow Heloise nee Lerouge, with her mother Fanny, moved in with her sister's Clementine Buckholdtz family in Sandy Creek, Pennsylvania. In 1871 she married Wilbur S. Brown (b.1842 New York). Two children were born to the couple: Clinton (1873) and Bertha (1875).
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Medical Notice.
Dr. Kovaleski being regularly licensed to practice in the various branches of Medicine, Surgenry [sic] and Midwifery, offers his professional services to the citizen of Pensacola.
Dr. K. has just obtained from New Orleans a fresh supply of Cow-Pock matter, and will be inoculating at his office at the National Hotel, each day from 8 o’clock till 11, in the forenoon. He scarcely need remind the citizens that it is advisable to have their children inocculated [sic] before the hot season of the year. Pensacola, May 16, 1840-7-3w* (Pensacola Gazette, Pensacola, Florida, 23 May 1840, Page 3, May 16, 1840)(Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
DOCTOR K. KOVALESKI,
Practitioner of Physic, Surgery and Midwifery,
Resides on Church-street, near the Episcopal Church.
Dr. K. has rented a commodious house on Intendentia-street for a HOSPITAL, to which he is ready to take patients at the rate of two dollars per day; for this sum, Dr. K. will attend on the sick as often as the case will require, will provide with nourishment, nursing and medicines. The patients will bring their own bedding; for washing, wine and the graver surgical operations, an extra charge will be made.
Those wishing to have separate rooms for themselves, will be charged from three to five dollars per day, according to the accommodations they will require.
Pensacola, October 24, 1840 (Pensacola Gazette, 12 December 1840, page 3)(Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
Medical Notice.
Dr. K. Kovaleski respectfully announces to the public that he has located in the city of New Orleans, with the view of making it his permanent place of residence, for the practice of Physic and Surgery. During several years of practice, five of which he resided in Mobile, he became familiar with the diseases peculiar to this climate. While study in Europe he had paid particular attention to fevers, diseases of the lungs, and the diseases of women and children. As an Accoucheur he has a special diploma; he has also graduated at the Medical College of Louisiana.
Dr. K. can be consulted in Polish, English, French, German, Spanish and Italian languages.
Office with Dr. Edday, no. 126 Canal street, near Dr. Hawks’s [sic] church. (Daily Picayune, New Orleans, 29 April 1848, page 3) (Copy in possession of Jane Denny and courtesy of Lynn H.)
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Dr. Kowalewski’s death notice appeared in the French newspaper, The New Orleans Bee/ L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans, 29 August 1864. Image to right; translation by Dorota Jarosz:
Décédé hier soir à 9 heures, à l'âge de 54 ans, le DR K KOVALISKI, natif de Pologne. Les connaissances de la famille sont respectement priés, sans autre invitation, d'attendre aux funérailles qui seront lieu cette après-midi, à quatre heures. Le convoi partira de la maison mortuaire, rue Vieulle Levée, en face de la Monnaie.
Died last night at 9 o'clock, at the age of 54 years, the DR K KOVALISKI, a native of Poland. The family friends are respectfully asked, without further invitation, to attend the funeral which will be held this afternoon at four. The convoy will leave the mortuary house at Vieulle Levée (Old Levee) Street, opposite the Mint.
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Dublin, Ireland, Probate Record and Marriage Licence Index, 1270-1858
Name: Maria Henrietta Dillon
Spouse: Kajetan Peter Dolega Kowalewski
Document Year: 1838
Record Type: Marriage Licence
New Orleans (La.) Justices of the Peace
Index to marriage records, 1846-1880:
Groom: Kejetan Kovaleski
Bride: Heloise Sophie LeRouge
Date: 5 MAR 1853
Call No.: VEE 678
Page: 108
New Orleans, Louisiana, Death Records Index, 1804-1949
Name: Kerotz Kovaleski
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1810
Death Date: 28 Aug 1864
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The obituary of Dr. Kowaleski’s grandson, Dr. Frank Kowalewski Beck, follows:
DEATH OF DR. FRANK K. BECK.
Death is always pathetic, but it is rendered doubly so when the ruthless hand is laid upon a young man full of promise and with a future before him as bright as the noonday sun. Such was Dr. Frank K. Beck, who passed from this life at ten minutes past 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, after two weeks of illness.
About two weeks ago he suffered a stroke [disease: cerebral hemorrhage; duration: twelve days] of paralysis while in his office on St. Francis street.
He was removed to the residence of Mrs. Rachel Heustis, on St. Joseph street, where kind, gentle and willing hands administered to his comfort until the end came. Progressive paralysis set in and although everything born of skill and science was used and the combined efforts of his co-laborers of the medical profession were exhausted, he fell asleep and his spirt was wafted to another world.
Frank Kowalewski Beck was born in Mobile, October 24, 1866, and had consequently just passed the twenty-ninth anniversary of his birth. He spent the early days of his life in Mobile, but when about ten years of age removed with his parents to Marengo county. He received his collegiate training at Marion Military Institute and later entered the Medical College of Alabama, in this city. He was a laborious student and was characterized at the outset as a young man of marked ability. He graduated from the medical college in the class of 1888, and the two years subsequent practiced medicine in Tuskaloosa and Pickens county, where by his geniality and modest trait of character he made innumerable lifelong friends who will be shocked and pained to hear of his untimely death.
During the year 1890 Dr. Beck went to New York and entered Bellevue Hospital to further perfect himself in his chosen profession. He remained there several months, after which he accepted a position as ship’s surgeon with the Royal Netherlands Steamship Line and served in this capacity for nearly a year. During this time he made a number of passages on the large steamships of the company plying between New York and Amsterdam. Still feeling the need of further research into medical and surgical science, he resigned this position and took special courses in hospital and colleges of Belgium and Holland.
When Dr. Beck returned to his native country he entered the United States marine hospital service and was stationed for some time at Portland, Maine.
In 1892 he returned to Mobile and engaged in the practice of medicine. Being a young man of indomitable energy, studious in his habits and with puck and courage to spare, he soon acquired a fine practice and won the esteem and confidence of the people whom he had known in childhood. The travels of Dr. Beck, combined with his natural intellect, equipped him with a vast store of knowledge and rendered him a most agreeable companion. Charitable, frank and honest in dealing with his fellow man, Dr. Beck held the confidence of those who met him in the business world. There was no set of circumstances under which his generous heart did not respond to the call of those in distress, and this sublime quality of character endeared him to all classes. While it is true that death is life’s greatest tragedy, there is an abiding consolation in the fact that a true life never really dies, its virtues will live forever among the throngs of men.
Dr. Beck is survived by his grandmother, Madam Kowalewski, of Mobile, a sister, Mrs. A. F. McCarty, of Demopolis, and hosts of friends in Mobile and elsewhere, who will grieve with them in their irreparable lost.
Notice of the time and place of the funeral will be found elsewhere in this paper (Mobile Register, 8 December 1895, p. 8; copy in possession of Jane Denny).
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daughter: Balbina K Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #69290777 (born circa 1839, Ireland)
son: Richard Gaudrie Kowalewski, Find A Grave Memorial #69291553 (born circa 1844, probably FL)
granddaughter: Balbina V. McCarty Stickney nee Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #142352438
grandson: Dr. Frank Kowaleski Beck, Find A Grave Memorial #69290809 (born 24 October 1866, died 6 September 1895 Mobile, AL)
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