Josip Marohnić (November 12, 1866 – January 23, 1921) remains up to this day the most influential Croatian emigrant in the Americas.
Marohnić was born in Hreljin, Croatia (then in the Austrian Empire) and lived in the United States for 28 years, where he emigrated alone in 1893 and was later joined by his wife Andrijana and daughter Josipa.
He started working at a Chicago's local printing house before attending Wheaton College (Illinois).
He later founded his own print house and bookstore, and became publisher, writer and editor of his newspaper "Hrvatski glasnik".
He was the first poet among the Croatian diaspora, having published his collections "Jesenke" in 1897 and "Amerikanke" in 1900[2] and his "Census of Croats in America".