the assassin of President William McKinley, Leon Frank Czolgosz, he was born in Alpena, Michigan, on May 5, 1873.
He was one of eight children, born to the Polish-American family of Paul Czolgosz and his wife Mary Nowak (Maria Nowak).
The Czolgosz family moved to Detroit, Michigan, when Leon was 5 years old.
When Leon was 10 and the family was living in Posen, Michigan, Czolgosz's mother died six weeks after giving birth to his sister, Victoria.
In his mid-teens, Czolgosz began working in a glass factory in Natrona, Pennsylvania.
By age 17, he found employment at the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company.
After the economic crash of 1893, when the factory closed for some time and tried to reduce wages, the workers went on strike.
With great economic and social turmoil around him, Czolgosz found little comfort in the Catholic Church and other immigrant institutions; he sought others who shared his concerns regarding injustice. He joined a moderate working man's socialist club, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and eventually a more radical socialist group known as the Sila Club, where he became interested in anarchism.
Czolgosz rejected his family's Catholic beliefs and became excited when he heard that an Italian immigrant named Gaetano Bresci had returned to Italy and assassinated King Umberto I. He kept newspaper cuttings of the assassination and started to read anarchist papers.
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