George Frank  KORCH

1930 Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts
name: George Korch
event: Census
event date: 1930
event place: Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts
gender: Male
age: 5
marital status: Single
race: White
birthplace: Massachusetts
estimated birth year: 1925
immigration year:
relationship to head of household: Son
father's birthplace: Connecticut
mother's birthplace: Massachusetts
enumeration district number: 0293
family number: 752
sheet number and letter: 32A
line number: 2
nara publication: T626, roll 966
film number: 2340701
digital folder number: 4607702
image number: 00866
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head George F Korch M 35 Connecticut
wife Mae N Korch F 30 Massachusetts
daughter Jayne O Korch F 9 Massachusetts
daughter Charlotte Korch F 8 Massachusetts
son George Korch M 5 Massachusetts
son Harold Korch M 4 Massachusetts
daughter Barbara Korch F 3 Massachusetts
son Warren Korch M 1 Massachusetts
son Donald Korch M 0 Massachusetts
1930 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data

1940 Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts
Box 112 - Thompson Road
Korch Mae, head, divorced, 40, b. MA
Korch Jayne, daughter, single, 19, b. MA
Korch Charlotte, daughter, single, 18, b. MA
Korch George, son, 15, b. MA
Korch Harold, son, 14, b. MA
Korch Barbara, daughter, 13, b. MA
Korch Donald, son, 10, b. MA
Korch Norma, daughter, 6, b. MA
1940 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data

1943 Army Enlistment
Name: George F Korch Jr
Birth Year: 1924
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Massachusetts
State: Massachusetts
County or City: Worcester
Enlistment Date: 22 Apr 1943
Enlistment State: Massachusetts
Enlistment City: Fort Devens
Branch: No branch assignment
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private

Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law

Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 3 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Aeronautical Engineer
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 08
Weight: 098

World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
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1947 - Two Trustees Flee Windham Prison
BROOKLYN - Sept. 19 - (AP) - Two trustees of the Windham County jail, who had been inmates of that institution less than a week, were the object of a concentrated State police search today following their escape from the jail yard, the fifth break there in about a year.

The missing prisoners were identified by Sheriff Lionel Poirier as George F. Korch, 23, of Webster, Mass., and Ronald Pickering, 20, of Danielson…Both men, said Poirier, were sentenced to the jail on Sept. 12 from the Windham County Superior court session at Putnam and were brought to the institution that day. Both, he said, had previous jail records.

Korch, he said, originally had been sentenced to a year in jail on a charge of taking a motor vehicle without the owner's permission but was paroled after serving 3 months. This time he was sentenced to serve 6 months on a similar charge in addition to charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor and operating a motor vehicle while his...Read full story



The Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut
September 19, 1947

1947 - Fugitives Caught
DANIELSON - Sept. 22 - (AP) - Two prisoners who escaped from the Windham County jail last Thursday were captured in Canterbury by a lone State policeman this afternoon…According to Rivers, the men were taken while breaking into a vacant house after attempting to burglarize two other houses.

The Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut
September 23, 1947

Sunday, September 25, 1949 Sunday Herald - Bridgeport, Connecticut
Parolee's Wild Ride Fails Him

George Korch Can't Convince State Cops He Had Been Asleep

George F. Korch, Jr., 25, a Cheshire parolee, tried some good tricks in his effort to avoid arrest by Sgt. Louis Marchese and Officer Thomas Smith of the Bethany State Police barracks.

He led the officers a merry auto chase over a path full of rocks and stumps that all but upset the low-slung police car.

Then he tried to make a get-away, leaving his pal, Claude Battles, 34, to take the rap of diz-driving the truck.

Then Korch got into bed at the farm of his Bethany employer and tried to make believe he had been there for hours.

Marchese and Smith told Korch the jig was up when they pointed out that his trousers were still wet from rushing through the dewy grass and brush.

Korch was held for violation of parole, reckless driving, operating without a license and operating while his license was suspended.

Battles, who was so drunk he hardly was able to stand, was charged with...Read full story