JHJ collection, photograph by John H. Johnson, detail from larger image

1940 CO Pueblo p15B Mike Milosavich. Mike Milosavich line 72 is 43, Helen line 73 is 39, Nick line 74 is 14, Walter line 75 is 12, Mary line 76 is 11 and Steve line 77 is 10. Mike lived on Shely in the same house he lived in in 1935. He is an alien mill worker who owns his house valued at $900., didn’t attend high school, works 40 hours a week with an income of $1,000. Mike & Helen were born in Yugoslavia.

1950 CO Pueblo p21 Mike Milosavich. 1950 United States Federal Census Colorado Pueblo Pueblo 64-85.

2nd World War soldier

U.S.S. Admiral H. T. Mayo color, this is the ship that Nick was on in 1945.

Pueblo was founded in 1842 as a frontier outpost where the Arkansas & Fountain Rivers meet by mountain men, who like the Indians, favored its mild winter climate. Near, but not in the mountains, it’s where minerals of the Rocky Mountains were processed. CF&I’s predecessor was founded in 1872 ”to purchase lands, minerals springs, coal and iron and other mines and quarries in Colorado Territory” to establish “colonies, towns, coal mining, iron making and manufacturing works.” Owned by Rockefeller and Gould, while Guggenheim had a smelter nearby, Pueblo was a source of much of their great wealth. Many men in our family worked at this behemoth company which had the mill, railroad and mines across Colorado and the surrounding states. Workers came from all over the world sustaining over 30 foreign language newspapers. Today EVRAZ makes the world’s longest rails, while the Federal Test Track Center nearby tests high-speed trains and just south is the world’s largest manufacture of windmills.

Nick Milosavich & train. On back handwritten it says “Nick Milosavich (standing) switchman for Colorado & Wyoming Railroad and later Yardmaster for CF&I Pueblo, CO.”