Rose G. Szewc was born in Warsaw, Poland; her family came to the United States when she was four years old. Rose worked as a legal stenographer and, later, as a manager in the Ft. Wayne (Indiana) Department of Western Life Indemnity Company. She contributed poetry to the Indianapolis Star (ca. 1917). She became interested in teaching English and Americanization to foreign born recruits at Ft. Benjamin Harrison (Indiana) in 1917. She served as secretary of the American Association for the Education of Foreign Born Soldiers in the United States Army (Indianapolis). In 1918, she moved to New York City, where she was associated with Paderewski and the Polish National Committee. She went to Washington briefly in 1918 as secretary of the Mid-European Union and worked with Professor Herbert Miller. During the 1920s and 1930s, she lived in New York City and worked with Tatra Production Company.
From the guide to the Rose G. Szewc Papers, 1916-1929, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Immigration History Research Center [ihrc])
