BIOGRAPHIES: George ALFONSE, Cumberland, Barron County, WI

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  George Alfonse, now living retired at Cumberland, was born in Pescolango,
Italy, and there married Agatha Manella, a native of Atelata, that country.
They came to America in 1882, and landed in New York, where, like so many
of their fellow countrymen, they engaged in the restaurant business. Four
years later, in 1886, they came to Wisconsin and located at Spooner, where
he was employed by the Omaha Railway as manager of their coal yards there.
In 1892 they came to Cumberland and purchased 58 acres in the city limits.
They erected a good set of buildings, cleared a part of the land and
successfully carried on truck farming for several years. In 1913 they
retired and deeded the property to their children. That year they took a
trip back to their old home in Italy, where they remained for eight months.
Since then they have lived with their son Amedeo, in Cumberland. They are
the parents of four children, Amedeo, Thomas, Christina (Mrs. Frank
Ranella) and Anna (Mrs. Pasquale Sirianni), all of Cumberland. The family
faith is that of the Roman Catholic Church.
 
--Taken  from:  History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 571.