• Born: 06 Dec 1882 in Wilga, Poland.
  (birth certificate: missing)
• Married to Emilia Snopczynska on 19 Aug 1953 in Czestochowa, Poland
  (marriage certificate)
• Died: 06 Aug 1955, Czestochowa, Poland
  (death certificate)
• Occupation: mechanical engineer

1922

In the 1930s he owned a typewriter and mechanical calculator shop in Warsaw on Plac Napoleona 4. He was the representative for Poland of the International Business Machines (IBM) company. According to the 1938 Warsaw phone directory (available in electronic form from the Library of Congress) page 76/26, his home phone number was 2 29 67 and on 5 Zgoda Street he had a store and a repair shop with typewriters, calculators, and accounting machines as well as cash registers. Click here to see the listing.

In May 1926, Emilia Praska nee Snopczynska with her daughter Janina (age 12 years) left her husband Wladyslaw Sylwester Praski and and after a short stay with friends in the manorial farm of Rokotow near Sochaczew west of Warsaw, moved with Mieczyslaw Bialobrzeski, who was her lover.

An interesting photo survived made in 1926 just a short while before Emilia left her husband. It shows Wladyslaw Praski, his wife Emilia, Emilia's sister Natalia and Janina, the daughter of Wladyslaw and Emilia. Also present in the photograph is... Emilia's lover, Mieczyslaw Bialobrzeski, who was giving Emilia typewriting lessons.