The Italians of Cleveland

THE ITALIAN S O F CLEVELAN D
which have received favorable comment. Since coming to this city he
has devoted himself to surgery, although he continues to be official examiner
for the majority of the Italian
societies in the district. Dr. Joseph
D. Mannino, formerly a student at
Western Reserve University, Ohio
Northern and the University of Cincinnati,
after a year of practice in the
Woodland district, is now assisting
Dr. Romano and is a man of promise.
Both of these practitioners are connected
with the city tuberculosis sanitarium
and are laboring in their immediate
community to break down
the swaddling custom by which ignOt·ant
mothers continue to hamper
.the development of their tender
offspring.
Two recent graduates of Vvestern
Reserve Dental School, both Ameri­
can born of Italian parents, are now
practicing in the city ; one, Chas. The Swaddling Custom
Angellotta, on Euclid near Lakeview ; the other, Michael Castrignano,
at 28th and Woodland: Both have built themselves into the life and
confidence of their respective communities in the five years of their
practice.
The pharmacy business also has Italian representatives. The Italian
Drug Company, on the corner of Murray Hill and Mayfield, is the
oldest and largest in the city. Angelo C. Serra, who owns the Italian
Drug Store at 27th and Woodland, has through the past fourteen years
personally conducted that business.
Many of the foremost Italian professional men in the city are in the
fraternity of law. They do not forget that the jurisprudence of the
Western World owes more than a superficial debt to the code of the
Romans, in fact it was in Rome that modern law was born. A catalogue
of Cleveland's prominent lawyers would include more than a few Italian
names. Attorneys Benedetto D. Nicola, Loui Perry, D. J. Lombardo,
Giuseppe V. Zottarelli, Alessandro Chiostergi , B. A. Buonpane, Louis
Lonza would have their places in uch a catalogue, together with Michael
Picciano, Charles Russo, and Joseph Nuccio, recen1t graduates of the
Cleveland Law School, the latter of whom fills the office of Assistant
City Prosecutor. Peter Filocco, for many years the Italian police court
interpreter, is now one of the probation officers in the city.
Throughout the entire field of the professions we find the Italians
of the city giving a creditable account of themselves. T11ese men are
to be commended the more highly for their achievements in that many
of them came to America under onerous handicap , in spite of which
they have made their way and contributed to our civic life.
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