Editing Leon Czolgosz (section)

== Early life ==
Leon Frank Czolgosz was born in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/leon-frank-czolgosz-235807 |title=Leon Frank Czolgosz Biography |work= Biography.com |publisher=A&E Television Networks |access-date= December 22, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151223004346/http://www.biography.com/people/leon-frank-czolgosz-235807 |archive-date=December 23, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{sfnm|1a1=Briggs|1y=1921|1p=262|2a1=Everett|2y=1901|2p=73}} on May 5, 1873. {{efn|His three older brothers, Waldeck, Frank and Joseph, were born in Poland while Leon was the first child born in Michigan.<ref name="Everett ch5">{{harvnb|Everett|1901| loc = [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/critics/everett/chapter5.html Chapter 5]}}</ref>}} Leon was fourth of eight children{{sfn|Channing|1902}} born to the [[Polish-American]] family of Paul (Paweł) Czolgosz (1843–1944){{sfn|Rauchway|2004|pp=114, 126}} and his wife Mary (Maryanna) Nowak.{{efn|Czolgosz's ancestors probably came from what is now [[Belarus]].

His father may have immigrated to the US in the 1860s from [[Astravyets]] (Ostrowiec) near [[Vilnius|Wilno]]. When he arrived in the United States, he gave his ethnicity as [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]] and changed the spelling of his surname from ''Zholhus'' (Жолгусь, Żołguś) to Czolgosz.<ref name="KPBY">{{cite news| author= Андрей Довнар-Запольский |url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/24205.4/409486/ |title=Президента США Уильяма МакКинли застрелил белорус? |publisher= | website = Kp.ru |date= November 27, 2008|access-date=July 12, 2013}}</ref>}} The family moved to [[Alpena, Michigan]], in 1880. 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.{{sfn|Miller|2011|pp=41}} In 1889, the Czolgosz family moved to [[Natrona, Pennsylvania]], where Czolgosz worked at a glass factory.{{sfnm|1a1=Briggs|1y=1921|1p=287|2a1=Rauchway|2y=2004|2p=115}} At age 17, they moved to [[Cleveland, Ohio]], where he found employment at the [[Cleveland Rolling Mill]] Company.{{sfn|Miller|2011|pp=56}} 

After the [[Panic of 1893|economic crash of 1893]], when the mill 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. Czolgosz joined a moderate working man's [[European socialism|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.{{sfn|Miller|2011|pp=57-60}}<ref>{{Cite book | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MuVRAgAAQBAJ&q=sila+czolgolz&pg=PA243 | title=The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism: An International History, 1878–1934| isbn= 978-1-107-65669-7| last1=Jensen| first1= Richard Bach| year=2013| publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref>