I am researching early attempts at ethnic libraries and ethnic history among the Czechs. I need the final addresses, exact dates and circumstances of death for the following two individuals. Obituaries would really be nice. The two are: Tupy, Ladislav J., 1872-1918 Newspaper editor, publisher, notary, real estate and insurance agent. Tupy worked on the editorial staffs of the daily Svornost, working-class Denni Hlasatel, Catholic daily Narod, published by the Czech Benedictines, and Organ Ceskoslovanske Jednoty. With a partner, Bartos Bittner, Tupy launched the satirical Freethinkers weekly Sotek in 1893. Financial difficulties forced them to suspend publication twice. Tupy and Bittner were at odds and took their quarrels to court. Sotek ceased in 1905. All of these periodicals were based in Chicago. Tupy was publisher of Slavie when he died in a train accident near Chicago. Tupy collected Czech-American periodicals and sought out the publishers archives of defunct periodicals. Thomas Capek traveled to Chicago in 1910, where Tupy helped him verify, correct and complete the bibliography in Padesat let ceskeho tisku v Americe. Capek also reported that Tupy was collecting and intended to publish biographical information about prominent Czech-Americans. Jaroslav Vojan mentioned Tupy s collection in connection with his call for a Czech American Museum in 1911. After Tupy s death, his collection was dispersed. Vojan, Jar. E. S. (Jaroslav Egon Salaba), 1872-1944 Author, attorney and newspaper editor. Vojan earned a Ph.D. at Charles University in Prague and arrived in the United States in 1904. In New York, he worked on the editorial staffs of New Yorske Listy and Hlas Lidu. From 1914 Vojan worked as head of advertising in the Chicago firm of Triner. He edited Organ Bratrstva CSPS for nine years and also served as an editor of Slavie and Vek Rozumu. As director of the Czech-American Press Bureau, founded in Chicago in December 1909, Vojan sought to inform the American public about the Czechs. He promoted fund-raising for Czech Freethought schools in New York, accurate representation of the Czechs in government statistics and other campaigns. Vojan wrote articles about Hus, Komensky, Havlicek, L|tzow, the Freethought movement, Czech music and graphic arts. Vojan is the author of Cesko-Americke Epistoly (Chicago, 1911), a series of essays about the Czechs in America, Velky New York (New York: New-Yorkske Listy, 1908), a history of New York and its Czech community, and histories of the C.S.P.S. fraternal order and Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago. Thanks, David Chroust d-chroust@tamu.edu David Chroust Monographs cataloger Evans Library Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-5000