Date of birth:

February 18th, 1907 (Mountain View/Hawaii, United States)

Date of death:

July 21st, 2005 (Mojave/California, United States)

Nationality:

American

Louis Markiewitz was born on February 18th, 1907 in Mountain Vieuw, Hawaii as the son of Polish immigrants. He left school at an early age and held several occupations as carpentry, fireman on a steamlocomotive and several other jobs.
Later he worked as a gold and silver miner and blacksmith. From 1931 he worked as a blacksmith on the building of the Boulder "Hoover" dam and later as goldminer in Skidoo (Death Valley).

During the Second World War he was with the U.S. Army Air Corps in building runways in the China-Buma-India area within the Corps of Engineers. He survived the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, working as a civil servant in the Department of the Navy and survived a German guided missle attack on the H.M.T. Rohna on November 26th, 1943.

After the war he returned to his life as gold and silver miner in the Mojave Mining District until his retirement in 2001.

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