Milan Getting
Czech, 1878 - 1951
Getting emigrated from Slovakia to Pittsburgh in 1902 and published in 1905-1919 the Slovak Sokol newspaper . Between 1914 and 1918, he organized a campaign in the US that prepared a visit to Tomas G. Masaryk and during his visit he was one of the signatories of the Pittsburgh Agreement of 1918.
In 1919, he returned to Czechoslovakia on the invitation of Vavř Šrobár and later returned to the USA as head of the Press Office of the Czech-Slovak Embassy in Washington . He then worked as a Czech-Slovak consul in West Pennsylvania (1924-1932). In 1925 he changed his official surname from Göttin to Getting a com as well as a note in his native record