Wenzel and Mary Holak appear to have arrived in the United States in 1858 and settled in Union Township of Vernon County (then Bad Ax) Wisconsin. They arrived with their three children: Mary Holak married Joseph M. Barta, (the last information I could find was the family had moved to Lacrosse, Wisconsin); Thomas Holak married Mary Machacek and they with, many of their children lived in the Vernon County area; and Anna Holak married Martin Slama, also living in the Vernon and Richland County area.