Vito Binaggia (1875 - 1924)

Born 10 Aug 1875 in Italy

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Biography

Vito was born in 1875. in Gibellina, Sicily. He was a shoemaker and emigrated to the US in 1899 leaving his wife and son Dominick to follow in 1902. He settled for a while in Newark, NJ and continued to work there as a cobbler. When his family arrived he migrated to Beaumont, TX where he had family. In 1912 he migrated north to Kansas City, Missouri where he continued to work as a cobbler until his death in 1924. He died of bilateral bronchial pneumonia.

Sources

• "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9RB-ZS65-S?cc=1368704&wc=4XBX-3Q4%3A1600432356 : 23 February 2018), Roll 3431, vol 7847-7848, 19 Dec 1923-21 Dec 1923 > image 45 of 785; citing NARA microfilm publication T715 and M237 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3RF-JP2 : 24 December 2021), Vito Binaggia, 1917-1918.

• "Italia, Trapani, Stato Civile (Archivio di Stato), 1906-1928," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HH-3L6G : 16 March 2018), Vito Binaggia, 06 Mar 1924; citing Death, Gibellina, Trapani, Italy, certificate number 3, archivio di stato di Trapani (Trapani State Archives), Italy; FHL microfilm 007366724.