Joseph W NYIKOS

1 DEC 1899 - ____

• BIRTH: 1 DEC 1899, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: 4 FEB 1926, St Joseph County IN

1.  Jane Ann NYIKOS
2.  Joan Helen NYIKOS

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[N12894] JOSEPH WALTER NYIKOS is a native of Saint Joseph County, a sterling representative of the younger generation of professional men, and has won recognition as an able attorney and has done some good work in public office. He is now a justice of the peace at South Bend.

He was born in that city December1, 1899, son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Gerencser) Nyikos. His father died in 1910 and his mother is now the wife of Vendel Hajdu, editor and publisher of City Life, a South Bend Hungarian newspaper.

Joseph W. Nyikos was the third in a family of five children, all of whom are living. During his boyhood he attended St. Stephens and St. Patrick's schools, the South Bend High School, for one year was a student in the University of Illinois and in June, 1923, graduated from the law department of Notre Dame University. He also studied and worked in the law office of Jones, Montgomery & Oberchain during 1922-23 and after his admission to the bar he practiced as an associate of the law firm of Jones & Oberchain from June, 1923, until 1927. He has a well furnished office in the new Odd Fellows Building. Mr. Nyikos was assistant prosecuting attorney under Prosecuting Attorney Sam Swartz from May, 1927, to December, 1928. He was appointed justice of the peace December 16,1929.

Mr. Nyikos is a member of the Saint Joseph County, Indiana State and American Bar Associations. He is well known in a civic and social way, being a director of the Hungarian Business Men's Association, member of the Hungarian Young Men's Club, the Knights of Columbus, B. P. O. Elks, and Saint Stephen’s Magyar Church.

He married, February 4, 1926, Miss Anna G. Lassu, who was also born at South Bend, daughter of Frank Lassu. They have one daughter, Joan Helen, born January26, 1927.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931