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Submitted by raspberrytuli on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Al Capone
Newspapers, books, movies, and magazines wrote countless number of articles about Al Capone. Unfortunately, most of them are completely false. The biggest myth around him and other gangsters of that era was that he was born in Italy—he was not born there.
It was true that many immigrants from Italy like all nationalities went to the New World with very little assets. People in rural Italy came to escape the lack of opportunity. Regrettably, most ended up as laborers due to their inability to speak/write English and the lack of professional skills. This was not the case for Al Capone's family.
Teresina Capone
In 1894, 43,000 Italians arrived in the U.S. including Gabriele Capone (not Caponi as many claimed). He was a barber by trade and was able to read and write his native language. He was thirty and he brought along his pregnant twenty-seven year old wife Teresina (often called Teresa) and his two-year-old son Vincenzero and his infant son Raffaele. He was one of the few that did not owe anyone anything from passage over to the States. His overall plan was to earn money anyway possible until he could open his own barbershop.
Like thousands of other Italian families, the Capone family moved to Brooklyn near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was not a place they would have had dreamt about. 95th Navy Street was a cold-water dwelling flat that had no indoor toilet or furnishing. The slum neighbor was always filled with noisy sailors off duty.
Gabriele's ability to read and write landed him a job in a grocery store. Terisina also took up sewing piecework to add to the family's coffers even though she had two growing boys to take care of. Her 3rd son Salvatore was born in 1895 and then followed by Alphonse, the first son to be born and conceived in the New World on January 17th, 1899.
You have to wonder what kind of people these two parents were, giving birth to children who could carry the genetic...
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