Biography
Konstantin Loban, also known as Peter Dedka or Peter Dutka, was born in 1893 in Slutsk in the Russian Empire, in present-day Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1913. He worked at the B. F. Goodrich plant in Akron, joined the Union of Russian Workers in 1915, and became secretary of its Lansing, Michigan branch in 1919. He married Anna Loban in Akron in 1916. The federal government deported both of them to Russia on March 18, 1921.
