(Transcribed by Lois Theodoratus, loistheo@gmail.com)
"No Fiction But Some of His Adventures" (Introduction written by Frank Jacobin)
With 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 exercising his profession for five years. He's been an officer of national guards. In time of the Italian Revolution, 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" (Cagliari, the main province of the region Sardinia) after three years forced exile escaped to Corsica Island France.
In 1872 he embarked from Havre Port to USA. In N.Y. he gave Italian lessons to several rich people, and Methodist Preachers who afterward implanted churches in Rome. He was a railroad foreman in time the railroads were built from N.Y. to Terrytown. He had been employed as a coal miner in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois, a general store manager in a coal mine co. in Pennsylvania and a general merchant.
N.B. - In time of the Italian Revolution he belonged to the Republican Group which corresponded with the Mussolini Club in London where Mussolini was exiled. They wanted to implant a Republic in Italy.
P.J. kept store in Coolburg, Ohio, Pittsburgh and Allegheny Pa., and in Sparta, Ill. Miner and Mines Surveyor in Roslyn, Wash. Homestead squatter, prospector, store keeper and saloon keeper in Hamilton, where at present still lives at "age 75", says it is the mysterious law of nature in which humbles one to exalt the other -- and the life is imagination null and void, the death sure. P.J.
Phosphate Joplin, MO. P. J. Life