Biography
Gavril Mikhnevich was born in Kremno, Russia (present-day Belarus). Immigrated to the United States in 1913.
His wife remained in Russia while he emigrated. Joined the URW in Hartford in August 1919 and was deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919.
After arrival in Soviet Russia he was one of six deportees who met Lenin seeking financial support. He later worked at the Russian-American Tool Plant and helped form a factory committee there, and appears to have joined the Russian Communist Party.
The congressional digest of Buford deportation cases lists Hawril Michnewitz as arrested in Hartford, Connecticut on November 13, 1919. This is the digest’s immigration-arrest entry; it does not establish an uninterrupted period of detention.
Congressional hearings, April 21–24, 1920, Appendix B, printed p. 151.
