Monte Etna's Children: A Story of Sicilian Immigration to America - Softcover

Miller, Mary Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1463746709 ISBN 13: 9781463746704

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

Monte Etna, an active volcano laying at the heart of Sicily, dominates the island’s landscape and culture. Cities and villages sprung up along its coastline where rocky slopes met the Mediterranean Sea, and most people who lived there eked out hardscrabble lives as farmers or fishermen. By the early twentieth century, while King Victor Emmanuel III ruled Italy, young men often found work as sailors in the king’s navy as an alternative. Two of them — Eligio Monte (later Monti) an orphan from Catania and Carmelo Gianino from Augusta — followed that path and eventually emigrated from the island, first to Boston’s West End, then to the Hill in St. Louis, Missouri. Their story affords the opportunity to examine in detail the broad historical roots of Sicilian immigrants as they acclimated to the New World and their descendants’ slow but steady assimilation and loss of Old World ethnic identity. Biographies of the children of Eligio Monti and Sebastiana (Gianino) Monti, some of the first generation born on U.S. soil between 1908 and 1928, complete this saga of two Sicilian immigrant families traveling and taking root in new American soil. Photographs, maps, documents, and a Proper Name Index will aid the genealogical researcher in finding their own roots. Also included is a descendants chart with numerous surnames, including: Baynes, Beishir, Biffignani, Combrevis, Dolan, Egler, Farabee, Frattini, Furham, Gegg, Gianino, Hall, Lebeque, Monte, Monti, Palmer, Renfrow, Schmitt, Virga, Viviano, Willis, and others.

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About the Author:

Reared in St. Louis, Missouri, Mary Linda Miller graduated fromMaryville University in 1978 with a BFA summa cum laude; worked fortwenty-five years doing design, drafting, and technical writing in thefields of civil engineering and architecture while living in St. Louis,Phoenix, and Hawaii; and traveled extensively in the United States,Western Europe, and Japan. She has four genealogy and family historybooks in the Library of Congress and currently resides in Orlando,Florida with her husband of over thirty years Carmelo L. Monti, RA.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1463746709
• ISBN 13: 9781463746704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96