Interior of the Liquor Warehouse

ID: 1577 ~ Source: Gene Thibodeaux ~ Date: 1954

This file appears in: Peddler to Pioneer: A Slovakian Immigrant's Journey to Church Point Wholesale

Photo of Church Point Wholesale employees Milton Barousse, Paul Higginbotham, Mildred Richard, Odom Bourque, and Lawrence Doucet packaging products in 1954

This file appears in: Peddler to Pioneer: A Slovakian Immigrant's Journey to Church Point Wholesale

Peddler to Pioneer: A Slovakian Immigrant's Journey to Church Point Wholesale – Supplying Church Point and the South with almost anything, 112 years and counting.

By Kallie R. Johnston

Ján Hvorecký was born to Andrej Hvorecký and Anne Pastorek on January 3, 1868. They resided in Bytča, Slovakia, an organized Jewish community with a population of 750 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At 18 years old, in 1885, Ján immigrated to the…