BIOGRAPHIES:  Pietro SIRIANNA, Cumberland, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  03 January 2004
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Pietro Sirianni, business man of Cumberland, was born in Italy, April 15,
1888, son of Francisco and Bridget (Chido) Sirianni, who were born in
Italy, and have spent their lives there with the exception of from 1897 to
1900, when he spent three years in the United States. Young Pietro was
educated in his native land and came to America in 1900 at the age of
twelve, locating with relatives in Cumberland, where he continued his
schooling for two years more. In 1902, when but fourteen years of age he
started out to see the country, and worked at varying intervals in
different towns in Montana, Washington and Oregon. In 1905 he came back to
Cumberland, and for three years he worked in the shops in St. Paul. In 1908
he engaged in the retail business for three years. He went to Hudson, Wis.,
in 1911, and bought a pool hall. In 1915 he came back to Cumberland, and
purchased his present establishment. He has the largest pool hall in the
city, conducts it in a clean and business-like manner, serves light
lunches, and handles cigars, tobacco, candy and novelties. Mr. Sirianni was
married Aug. 2, 1908, to Caroline Zappa, born in Pittsburg, Penn., May 10,
1894, daughter of William and Frances (Ronallo) Zappa, natives of Italy,
who came to America in 1906, and bought a small tract of land in Crystal
Lake Township, where they now carry on truck farming. Mr. and Mrs. Sirianni
have six children: Francisco, born April 26, 1909; Benidatto, born June 4,
1911; Emil, born Sept. 7, 1913; Bridget, born May 18, 1915, Anna, born Dec.
20, 1916, and Albert, born June 15, 1918. The family faith is that of the
Roman Catholic Church.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 284.


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