by PolackTony » Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:35 pm
, Luigi and Adelina's son, Nicholas Guglielmucci, was baptized in
B. wrote: ↑Wed Aug 02, 2023 11:20 am
LaMare also witnessed the passport application of Angelo Polizzi in 1922. Polizzi was from San Cataldo (like the Melis) and the father of Mike. Angelo was an important member in both Pittston and Detroit.
Yes, and was supposedly also the best man for Black Bill Tocco's marriage to Rosalia Zerilli. Clearly, LaMare was an important man in Detroit long before the events leading to the Castellammarese War, and as with Capone, Masseria seems to have enticed LaMare to turn against his friends with the offer of recognising him as boss.
LaMare's February 1931 death record in Detroit had him as "Chester Sapio LaMare", born in 1884 in Ripacandida, Potenza, Basilicata, to Nicola and Rosa Sapio. I believe that his real name was Donato Antonio Sapio, born around 1882 in Ripacandida to Nicola Sapio and Rosa Begotti. In 1902, a Donatantonio Sapio, born 1882 in Ripacandida, arrived in NYC via Rotterdam, giving "clerk" as his profession, indicating that he was educated; he stated that a "cousin" named something like "Peppino Sylos" (difficult to make out), living on 2nd Ave near E 68 St in Manhattan was his contact. There are no later documents that match someone with this name in the US. I suspect that LaMare may have been in trouble with the law already before arriving in the US, hence the radical name change.
In 1906, "Chester William LaMare", born about 1883, makes his first appearance in documents in Chicago, marrying Julia Schuster there (born in Chicago to German parents). LaMare had a sister, Adelina Sapio, born in 1881 in Ripacandida to Nicola Sapio and Rosa Begotti. In 1906, she married Luigi Guglielmucci in Ripcandida and they subsequently emigrated to Blue Island, IL, a suburb immediately to the south of Chicago which was the primary colony of Ripacandidesi in the US, alongside Altoona, PA (actor Gary Sinise, who is from Blue Island, has ancestry from Ripacandida; Chicago member Dominic Senese, whose father was from Ripacandida, may have been a relative of Gary Sinise). In 1909, Luigi and Adelina's son, Nicholas Guglielmucci, was baptized at St Anthony Parish, an Italian church in the Far Southside Chicago neighborhood of Kensington, near Blue Island. His godmother was Julia Schuster, and the priest who baptized him was Orazio "Horace" D'Andrea, brother of later Chicago boss Tony D'Andrea (Father Horace D'Andrea was a parish priest at St Anthony's).
As noted above, in 1910 "Chester LaMare", occupation "labor agent" (presumably a patrone), was recorded in the US census at 348 W Chicago Ave, on the border of Little Sicily (this was presumably his commercial address and I'm not sure where his residential address was), along with his partner Giovanni Piediscalzi, a real estate agent from Piana dei Greci, indicating that LaMare was already working closely with Sicilians before his later move to Detroit. Now, the village of Ripacandida is in the mountainous Vulture region of northern Potenza province, near the juncture of Basilicata, Puglia, and Campania. The area has a significant concentration of Arbereshe, and Ripacandida is surrounded by the Arbereshe settlements of Rionero, Barile, Ginestra, and Maschito. "Sapio" was probably originally Sapìa, a surname in the area believed to be of Albanian origin. The fact that LaMare was closely associated with a Sicilian Arbereshe during his time in Chicago could be significant here, in that he was probably of at least partial Arbereshe ancestry himself.
After LaMare moved to Detroit, he separated from Julia Schuster and remarried Anna Simms in 1922 (she was born in Michigan to parents from England). In 1920, LaMare was living with Anna as his "wife" in an apartment at 110 Henry St (it seems the address no longer exists), in the old 2nd Ward, in what is now the Cass Park Historic District in Midtown Detroit. He gave his occupation as a wholesale produce merchant (they had boarders living with them from Hungary and Kentucky also). In 1930, LaMare and Anna lived in a house at 4851 S Martindale in the Petoseky-Otsego neighborhood on Detroit's Westside; Lamare stated that he was employed as the manager of an auto dealership. LaMare's sister, Adelina, was living with him at this time, while her children were listed as his "stepchildren" on the census, with the surname LaMare (Adelina's husband had died). After LaMare was killed in 1931, Adelina and her kids returned to Blue Island, where she died in 1936. Her son, Nicholas Guglielmucci, was later a secretary of the Blue Island Sons of Italy Lodge, and other Guglielmucci relatives led the San Donato di Ripacandida Society and held political offices in Blue Island over the decades.
, Luigi and Adelina's son, Nicholas Guglielmucci, was baptized in [quote=B. post_id=265313 time=1691000423 user_id=127]
LaMare also witnessed the passport application of Angelo Polizzi in 1922. Polizzi was from San Cataldo (like the Melis) and the father of Mike. Angelo was an important member in both Pittston and Detroit.
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Yes, and was supposedly also the best man for Black Bill Tocco's marriage to Rosalia Zerilli. Clearly, LaMare was an important man in Detroit long before the events leading to the Castellammarese War, and as with Capone, Masseria seems to have enticed LaMare to turn against his friends with the offer of recognising him as boss.
LaMare's February 1931 death record in Detroit had him as "Chester Sapio LaMare", born in 1884 in Ripacandida, Potenza, Basilicata, to Nicola and Rosa Sapio. I believe that his real name was Donato Antonio Sapio, born around 1882 in Ripacandida to Nicola Sapio and Rosa Begotti. In 1902, a Donatantonio Sapio, born 1882 in Ripacandida, arrived in NYC via Rotterdam, giving "clerk" as his profession, indicating that he was educated; he stated that a "cousin" named something like "Peppino Sylos" (difficult to make out), living on 2nd Ave near E 68 St in Manhattan was his contact. There are no later documents that match someone with this name in the US. I suspect that LaMare may have been in trouble with the law already before arriving in the US, hence the radical name change.
In 1906, "Chester William LaMare", born about 1883, makes his first appearance in documents in Chicago, marrying Julia Schuster there (born in Chicago to German parents). LaMare had a sister, Adelina Sapio, born in 1881 in Ripacandida to Nicola Sapio and Rosa Begotti. In 1906, she married Luigi Guglielmucci in Ripcandida and they subsequently emigrated to Blue Island, IL, a suburb immediately to the south of Chicago which was the primary colony of Ripacandidesi in the US, alongside Altoona, PA (actor Gary Sinise, who is from Blue Island, has ancestry from Ripacandida; Chicago member Dominic Senese, whose father was from Ripacandida, may have been a relative of Gary Sinise). In 1909, Luigi and Adelina's son, Nicholas Guglielmucci, was baptized at St Anthony Parish, an Italian church in the Far Southside Chicago neighborhood of Kensington, near Blue Island. His godmother was Julia Schuster, and the priest who baptized him was Orazio "Horace" D'Andrea, brother of later Chicago boss Tony D'Andrea (Father Horace D'Andrea was a parish priest at St Anthony's).
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As noted above, in 1910 "Chester LaMare", occupation "labor agent" (presumably a patrone), was recorded in the US census at 348 W Chicago Ave, on the border of Little Sicily (this was presumably his commercial address and I'm not sure where his residential address was), along with his partner Giovanni Piediscalzi, a real estate agent from Piana dei Greci, indicating that LaMare was already working closely with Sicilians before his later move to Detroit. Now, the village of Ripacandida is in the mountainous Vulture region of northern Potenza province, near the juncture of Basilicata, Puglia, and Campania. The area has a significant concentration of Arbereshe, and Ripacandida is surrounded by the Arbereshe settlements of Rionero, Barile, Ginestra, and Maschito. "Sapio" was probably originally Sapìa, a surname in the area believed to be of Albanian origin. The fact that LaMare was closely associated with a Sicilian Arbereshe during his time in Chicago could be significant here, in that he was probably of at least partial Arbereshe ancestry himself.
After LaMare moved to Detroit, he separated from Julia Schuster and remarried Anna Simms in 1922 (she was born in Michigan to parents from England). In 1920, LaMare was living with Anna as his "wife" in an apartment at 110 Henry St (it seems the address no longer exists), in the old 2nd Ward, in what is now the Cass Park Historic District in Midtown Detroit. He gave his occupation as a wholesale produce merchant (they had boarders living with them from Hungary and Kentucky also). In 1930, LaMare and Anna lived in a house at 4851 S Martindale in the Petoseky-Otsego neighborhood on Detroit's Westside; Lamare stated that he was employed as the manager of an auto dealership. LaMare's sister, Adelina, was living with him at this time, while her children were listed as his "stepchildren" on the census, with the surname LaMare (Adelina's husband had died). After LaMare was killed in 1931, Adelina and her kids returned to Blue Island, where she died in 1936. Her son, Nicholas Guglielmucci, was later a secretary of the Blue Island Sons of Italy Lodge, and other Guglielmucci relatives led the San Donato di Ripacandida Society and held political offices in Blue Island over the decades.