1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

876 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
crime, and his name carries weight for criminals realize that he is utterly
fearless and determined to keep his city free from their viciousness.
The jail, in which his office is located, is a modern structure, containing
five cell rooms, and has a capacity for seventy-five persons.
Mr. Palmer was married in 1912 at Bay City, Michigan, to Miss Anna
Copman. His fraternal connections are those he maintains with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Attilio Castigliano. While people of Italian nationality and ances-
try have become so numerously represented in northern Minnesota as to
decidedly influence and call for established institutions i^n church, social,
commercial and other affairs, probably no one person represents more
truly the great body of Italian Americans in an official way than Attilio
Castigliano, consular agent for the Kingdom of Italy at Duluth.
Mr. Castigliano is a man of fine education and in every way highly
qualified for the diverse duties and peculiar responsibilities of his office.
He was born in \''alperga in the Province of Torino, Italy, March 25,
1881. He graduated from the Agricultural College of Caluso in 1901,
and four years later, on March 4, 1905, arrived in the United States. During
the following four or five years he had an active business experience
connected with the State Savings Bank of Laurium, Michigan.
On March 10, 1910, he was appointed consular agent for the Kingdom
of Italy with jurisdiction over the state of Minnesota and northern Michigan.
While his office was temporarily established at Hibbing, it was
transferred to Duluth and has remained there since August, 1911.
The duties of his office involve a general protection of the interests
of the Italian people in the district where over seventy-five thousand
Italians are living; more particularly the furnishing of Italian business
concerns in Italy commercial and financial references ; in administering to
the estates of deceased nationals ; promoting friendlier relations between
the Italian element and the local public.
The World war naturally brought a great increase and extension of
responsibilities and duties. The consular agency was responsible for
recruiting and providing transportation both on land and sea to over
nineteen hundred reserves. After the United States became involved in
the war Mr. Castigliano's office at Duluth had charge of the inspection
of all condensed milk exported from the United States to Italy and of a
large number of meat contracts. Through that office in the last week of
January, 1919, from Kansas City alone were shipped from five packing
companies ninety-two carloads of meat for a value exceeding one million
dollars. Mr. Castigliano was also connected with public work and made
arrangements for all the conferences held in the territory of his juris-
diction by the military officers, besides giving a great deal of his time to
the Saving Stamp and Liberty Loan publicity both in Duluth and in
.St. Paul and Minneapolis. Through his efforts on October 12. 1919, the
sum of 40,000 lire was collected in Duluth and remitted to the Italian
War Orphans' Relief Committee at Rome.
When Mr. Castigliano opened his office at Duluth in August, 1911, he
comprised its entire personnel. Now the office has an assistant in the
person of Edmund T. Powers, attorney at law, and two secretaries. Miss
Louise Signorelli, who has been on duty there for over seven years, and
M;ss Mary Brocco. In recognition of his services the King of Italy
has recently honored him with the appointment as Knight of the Crown
of Italy.
George L. Train, cashier of the First National Bank of Chisholm,
is one of the dependable business men and public-spirited citizens of