12 Months of My Family Tree in Print – June

This month, the following news bits relate to my family in the old papers:

On June 5, 1924, my immigrant great grandfather Carmen (Carmine) Ferraro appeared in what may be a Brooklyn English-language newspaper.  The name of the paper has crumbled off with age.  Carmen, as general manager and artistic director of the National Grand Opera Association, Inc., conducted a performance of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.

Carmen’s “international” travel bureau was advertised in The Chicago Tribune on June 22, 1930.

My immigrant great great grandfather Johann (John) Leies appeared in the marriage license announcements section of The Chicago Tribune on June 23, 1896 when he obtained a license to marry his second wife, Caroline Sickel, after my immigrant great great grandmother Emilia Bold had passed.  Their ages are listed in the column to the right.

On June 28, 1910, my immigrant great great grandfather Angelo Ferraro’s name appeared as an incorporator in The Chicago Tribune with his son-in-law Angelo Scarnecchia and Arturo Cinquini.  I am not familiar with Arturo or his relationship to my family.  That is something to research.  If I found out anything I will let you know!

Their new corporation was named The Italo-American Forwarding Company and would apparently deal in insurance and brokerage.  Does this mean Angelo was living in Chicago?  Maybe.  I cannot locate him on the 1910 Census.  At this time his son Carmen’s profession was listed as fruit broker on the 1910 census and was fruit merchant on his 1910 Naturalization application.

Do you have any corrections, comments, or additions?  Are we related?  I would love to hear from you!  Please email me: cinziarosagenealogy@comcast.net.   

 

Women’s History Month: Great Grandmother Helen Kirsch Ferraro – Identifying Witness In A 1906 Chicago Murder Case

My great grandmother Helen Kirsch Ferraro was a protected witness in a Chicago murder case that involved an international manhunt on 3 continents before she met and married my great grandfather.  She had become acquainted with a man that later was wanted for murder while she worked in an Italian “boot-blacking” shop on Clark Street in Chicago.  Because she had seen him get in a car near the scene of the crime and the amount of national press coverage the investigation garnered, the Chicago Police Department sent her to Poughkeepsie, NY to identify him with a different name.  Below is an oldie and touched-up version of a 2 year old blog post I offer this week for Women’s History Month.  The only sources available about the investigation and crime were newspaper articles.  The case file has been destroyed.

Great Grandmother Helen Kirsch Ferraro: Witness in the 1906 Chicago Murder Case of Mrs. Louise Gentry.

-cinziarosagenealogy@comcast.net