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Dankowski, Alfred
Traveler. Born in Posen, Poland. Came to U.S. as a young boy; in 1888 went to Butte, Mon., where he established a tailoring shop. Tn 1919 retired and started his traveling. Traveled through U.S. thirty times, from coast to coast and from north to south. In 1921 built a small house on wheels, a forerunner of the trailer, to be pulled by the car. The convention of the owners of the trailers held in winter 1938-39 in Florida, recognized him unanimously as the "Father of the Trailers." Dankowski has no house: during the summer he travels north, and in winter, south. His hobbies are: hunting and fishing. In 1938 climbed highest peak of Rocky Mts. in Canada.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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