John Wegrzyn was born about 1899 in Austria/Poland to Henry Andrew Wegrzyn and Julia Brash. He grew up in Poland until the age of 8, when he immigrated to the United States with his mother and siblings to reunite with his father. At that time, he was 4'2" with brown hair and blue eyes.
John's family settled in Chicago, IL, by 1910.
He later had a daughter named Geneva.