Anthony Martin Sinatra (born May 4 1892,
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, died 24 January 1969, USA) was a professional boxer and the father of singer and actor
Frank SinatraFrancis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers." His professional career had stalled by the...
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Anthony Martin Sinatra was born in 1892, in
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, Sicily, Italy. He immigrated with his parents Frank and Rose Sinatra, to
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(USA), where his father worked in a pencil factory earning eleven dollars a week, and his mother ran a small grocery shop.
Anthony Martin Sinatra (born May 4 1892,
PalagoniaPalagonia is a comune in the Province of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km southeast of Palermo and about 35 km southwest of Catania...
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SicilySicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy. Several much smaller islands surrounding it are considered to be part of Sicily....
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ItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
, died 24 January 1969, USA) was a professional boxer and the father of singer and actor
Frank SinatraFrancis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers." His professional career had stalled by the...
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Biography
Anthony Martin Sinatra was born in 1892, in
PalagoniaPalagonia is a comune in the Province of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km southeast of Palermo and about 35 km southwest of Catania...
, Sicily, Italy. He immigrated with his parents Frank and Rose Sinatra, to
Hoboken, New JerseyHoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the city's population was 38,577. The city is part of the New York metropolitan area and contains Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub for the region...
(USA), where his father worked in a pencil factory earning eleven dollars a week, and his mother ran a small grocery shop. Anthony himself apprenticed as a shoemaker, until he started prize-fighting, calling himself Marty O'Brien, because Italians were not welcome in the fight game.
On Feb 14th 1914, Marty eloped with Natalie Della Garaventa (Aka "Dolly"), to Jersey City, where they married, as Dolly's parents would not give a wedding, and did not approve of Marty, because he couldn't read or write, and wasn't even a good boxer.
Together Marty, and Dolly moved into 415, Monroe St, Hoboken. It was here on the 12th December 1915, they had their only child, Francis Albert Sinatra.
Marty continued his Boxing Career, until he broke his wrists after 30 professional Fights, and then went to work on the docks, where he was dismissed due to his asthma. Out of a job, Dolly helped him find work, and he was appointed to Hoboken Fire Service in 1927, where he became the rank of
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, without having to sit any formal exams.
Still a captain in the Fire Brigade, Dolly and Marty opened up a tavern called 'Marty O'Brian's', and with enough income, the Sinatra family moved house to a three-bedroom apartment, only a few blocks away from Monroe St, but well out of the way of Little Italy.
Marty died of a heart attack on January 24, 1969 at 76 years of age, with his son
Frank SinatraFrancis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers." His professional career had stalled by the...
beside him. He is laid to rest at Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City ,
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, USA, with his wife.
In the 1992
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Sinatra (a film about the life of
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), he was portrayed by
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