Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Testa, Anthony Joseph 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Testa, Anthony Joseph – The advent of the successful flying machine has 
created a profession altogether unknown a decade or so ago. Its members have 
learned their vocation not in schools, or from books, but in the workshop and 
field, in daily contact with the work they have had to do. They have had no 
precedents to guide them, but have been compelled to work out the problems 
which their employment has brought them in the school of experience. Prominent 
among the men who have adopted this calling may be mentioned Anthony Joseph 
Testa, secretary of the Illinois Aero Construction Company, of Coal City, 
since the organization of this concern in 1911. He was born at Braidwood, Will 
County, Ill., in 1883, and is a son of Joseph and Louisa Antonnia Testa. The 
parents of Mr. Testa were both born in Italy, where the father learned and 
followed the trade of a baker. Like many other honorable men of his country, 
he saw no future ahead of him there, and, accordingly, in 1882 emigrated to 
the United States, and located at Braidwood, Ill. He almost immediately 
secured employment in the mines, and for seventeen years followed the 
occupation of miner at Braidwood and Coal City, at which latter place he 
opened a bakery establishment in 1899. At the present time he is the 
proprietor of a bakery at South Wilmington, Ill., where his wife also lives. 
They have been the parents of the following sons: Anthony Joseph, William, 
Defendent and Charles.

Anthony Joseph Testa attended the public schools of Coal City, to which place 
he was brought as a small lad, and upon completing his education secured 
employment in the mines. An alert, intelligent and ambitious youth, he soon 
gained promotion to the position of clerk in the company store, and was thus 
engaged in 1909, when he became candidate for the office of City Clerk. He was 
subsequently elected thereto in that year, and for two years faithfully and 
efficiently served his fellow-townsmen in that capacity, and upon the 
expiration of his term, in 1911, became secretary of the Illinois Aero 
Construction Company, an office which he still holds. Among his business 
associates Mr. Testa is known as a young man of thorough reliability and good 
judgment, whose counsel is valued and appreciated and whose foresight is 
respected. He is a Republican in his political views and has always heartily 
supported that party's candidates and principles. His religious connection is 
with the Catholic Church, and fraternally he is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias. In 1906 Mr. Testa was married to Miss Mary Albright, and to them 
there have been born two children: Gilbert and Marie.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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