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(Transcribed by Lois Theodoratus, loistheo@gmail.com)

"No Fiction But Some of His Adventures"

Whit the permission of P. Jacobino our father we print some of his life exploit - as the same were stranger and unknown to us, but a surprise. He was born in South of Italy "between Naples and Rome" 1841. Student and graduated in the Naples University with the Diploma of Civil Engineer exercizing his profession for five years - he's been an officer of national guards - In time of the Italian Rivolution, beginning in 1860 and subsequent years he was messed up with a revolutionary party, and picked up with a great number of the big class of citizens without process to several prisons and fortresses - deported in Sardinia Island "Caghliari" after 3 years forced exile escaped to Corsica Island France. In 1872 embarked from Havre Port to USA. In N.Y. gave Italian lessons to several rich people, and Methodist Preachers who afterward implanted churches in Rome. He was railroad foreman in time the R. roads built from N.Y. to Terrytown. He had been employed coal miner in Pensilvania, Ohio, and Illinois. General store manager in a coal mine co. in Pensilvania an a general merchant.