Dear Qntara,

Actually this manifest is fairly legible compared to some that I have seen (over 1,000!) He was from Inancs, Hungary. There is a place by this name located 106.6 miles ENE of Budapest, not far from the border with Slovakia.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&...

He was going to Galeton, PA to a brother. There is a Galeton in Potter County PA (northern part of the state)

As far as who he was traveling with I don't see anyone from the same town. The person below him is MATYI, Gyorgy and the person above is SZEDLAK, ?

In re to the place he was going.... and his brother... there is an earlier ship manifest for an Istvan (=Stephen) arr 1898 also fro Inancs (sounds like eenahch) but his destination is listed as Galeton OH... Galetown is near Sandusky. Istvan was traveling with a BARNA family (father and 2 sons) Istvan's manifest also says that he had been in the US prior to this trip from 1892.

I might mention that many Hungarians "were recruited" to work in the limestone quarries in that part of the State of Ohio. An Ohio history article briefly mentions (only by initials and not by full name) a Hungarian immigrant who was employed by a quarry company to recruit other Magyars (Hungarians) to come to work in the quarries in that part of Ohio. In fact Cleveland was one of the largest "Hungarian cities" in the world, a distinction that would last into the 1970s. In the 70s many left the traditional neighborhoods in Cleveland being victims of the black riots and crime. Sadly now those Cleveland neighborhoods they built are like ghost towns!

http://www.clevelandmemory.org/Hungarians/

http://www.jcu.edu/language/hunghemu/hunghem2.htm

Robert Jerin
Croatian Heritage Museum
Cleveland Ohio