Vasile Stoica
Vasile Stoica (1889-1959), also known as Basil Stoica, is born in a family that originated from Transylvania (then Hungary & now Romania). "He has been over every part of this great country. He has come in contact with university professors, financiers, industrialists, countrymen. He has made a district success wherever he went, as much a social success as an official success. It will take a new man a long time to learn as much as Captain Stoica and to secure the confidence of Americans in the way he has. Because of my official position, I have come during the war period, in contact with the representatives of all the foreign nations, and no one of them has impressed more favourably than Captain Stoica" wrote Stephen P. Duggan on December 10, 1920.
See Florin Mirghesiu, Vasile Stoica in the U.S. (Bucharest: 2000).