Father: CarloCarolus GianniniGianini, b. 7 Oct 1806, Favale di Malvaro, Genoa, Italy.
Mother: GerominaMaria Hyeronima Pezzolo, b. 8 Aug 1806, Favale di Malvaro, Genoa, Italy.
Luigi, was a farmer who had grown up in Ligure, a small village that today is home to just 500 people. His mother, Virginia Demartini, married Luigi when she was fourteen years old and he was 29. Together, the two decided to leave Italy and head to America in the hopes of making a fortune. With the little money they had collected from relatives, Giannini's parents rented a house with a few rooms. After six months of renovations, they had transformed it into a functioning inn with over twenty rooms.
It was in that inn that Amadeo Pietro Giannini was born.
The family inn continued to grow and eventually became a hotel. Luigi sold it after a few more years and bought a 40-acre plot of land. It seemed that the family was finally living their dreams. That is until one day, when Luigi got into an argument with an employee over a simple one-dollar debt and wound up getting killed. It was a massive blow for the seven year old Giannini, who witnessed the tragic event before his very own eyes. In that instant, his 22 year old mother had become a widow."
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/984/Americas-BlueCollar-Banker-The-Early-Years-of-Amadeo-Peter-AP-Giannini.html.
Mother: GerominaMaria Hyeronima Pezzolo, b. 8 Aug 1806, Favale di Malvaro, Genoa, Italy.
Luigi, was a farmer who had grown up in Ligure, a small village that today is home to just 500 people. His mother, Virginia Demartini, married Luigi when she was fourteen years old and he was 29. Together, the two decided to leave Italy and head to America in the hopes of making a fortune. With the little money they had collected from relatives, Giannini's parents rented a house with a few rooms. After six months of renovations, they had transformed it into a functioning inn with over twenty rooms.
It was in that inn that Amadeo Pietro Giannini was born.
The family inn continued to grow and eventually became a hotel. Luigi sold it after a few more years and bought a 40-acre plot of land. It seemed that the family was finally living their dreams. That is until one day, when Luigi got into an argument with an employee over a simple one-dollar debt and wound up getting killed. It was a massive blow for the seven year old Giannini, who witnessed the tragic event before his very own eyes. In that instant, his 22 year old mother had become a widow."
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/984/Americas-BlueCollar-Banker-The-Early-Years-of-Amadeo-Peter-AP-Giannini.html.
Father: CarloCarolus GianniniGianini, b. 7 Oct 1806, Favale di Malvaro, Genoa, Italy.
Mother: GerominaMaria Hyeronima Pezzolo, b. 8 Aug 1806, Favale di Malvaro, Genoa, Italy.
Luigi, was a farmer who had grown up in Ligure, a small village that today is home to just 500 people. His mother, Virginia Demartini, married Luigi when she was fourteen years old and he was 29. Together, the two decided to leave Italy and head to America in the hopes of making a fortune. With the little money they had collected from relatives, Giannini's parents rented a house with a few rooms. After six months of renovations, they had transformed it into a functioning inn with over twenty rooms.
It was in that inn that Amadeo Pietro Giannini was born.
The family inn continued to grow and eventually became a hotel. Luigi sold it after a few more years and bought a 40-acre plot of land. It seemed that the family was finally living their dreams. That is until one day, when Luigi got into an argument with an employee over a simple one-dollar debt and wound up getting killed. It was a massive blow for the seven year old Giannini, who witnessed the tragic event before his very own eyes. In that instant, his 22 year old mother had become a widow."
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/984/Americas-BlueCollar-Banker-The-Early-Years-of-Amadeo-Peter-AP-Giannini.html.
Mother: GerominaMaria Hyeronima Pezzolo, b. 8 Aug 1806, Favale di Malvaro, Genoa, Italy.
Luigi, was a farmer who had grown up in Ligure, a small village that today is home to just 500 people. His mother, Virginia Demartini, married Luigi when she was fourteen years old and he was 29. Together, the two decided to leave Italy and head to America in the hopes of making a fortune. With the little money they had collected from relatives, Giannini's parents rented a house with a few rooms. After six months of renovations, they had transformed it into a functioning inn with over twenty rooms.
It was in that inn that Amadeo Pietro Giannini was born.
The family inn continued to grow and eventually became a hotel. Luigi sold it after a few more years and bought a 40-acre plot of land. It seemed that the family was finally living their dreams. That is until one day, when Luigi got into an argument with an employee over a simple one-dollar debt and wound up getting killed. It was a massive blow for the seven year old Giannini, who witnessed the tragic event before his very own eyes. In that instant, his 22 year old mother had become a widow."
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/984/Americas-BlueCollar-Banker-The-Early-Years-of-Amadeo-Peter-AP-Giannini.html.
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