Alberta "Albina" Caruso was born in Newark, NJ in 1897, one of 12 children (9 living to adulthood) of Frank & Nicolina Caruso, who had immigrated from southern Italy in the 1880s. Raised in the old first ward Italian section of Newark, she obtained a teaching degree and taught elementry school in her old neigborhood (her youngest sisters, twins Florence and Stella, were among her pupils.) Alberta married Serafino "Barney" Federici, a US Postmaster & Democratic politician, in 1933 in Manhattan, NY, and eventually they retired to Spring Lake, NJ, where she died of Parkinson's disease in 1980.
Alberta "Albina" Caruso was born in Newark, NJ in 1897, one of 12 children (9 living to adulthood) of Frank & Nicolina Caruso, who had immigrated from southern Italy in the 1880s. Raised in the old first ward Italian section of Newark, she obtained a teaching degree and taught elementry school in her old neigborhood (her youngest sisters, twins Florence and Stella, were among her pupils.) Alberta married Serafino "Barney" Federici, a US Postmaster & Democratic politician, in 1933 in Manhattan, NY, and eventually they retired to Spring Lake, NJ, where she died of Parkinson's disease in 1980.
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