From when he arrived in Beacon from Ellis Island in the first decade of the 20th century, to when he raised a growing family, to when his wife died in 1941, to the 4th of May 1945 when his youngest son Marine Clement Pollack, Jr., his namesake, was killed in action, until he died in 1959, Great-grandfather worked and lived on the Brockway property. For fifty years, he never experienced any other part of the new land he called home. My two great-grandfathers: men of the soil- one who cleared the land stone by stone, the other- who manufactured brick by brick to build the city.
Photo: Bonnie Wood 20 November 2021 Courtesy of the Beacon Historical Society.