Anthony Martin Sinatra
{{Short description|Father of Frank Sinatra}}
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|name = Anthony Martin Sinatra
|image = File:Anthony sinatra.jpg
|birth_name = Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra
|birth_date = {{birth date|1892|5|04}}
|birth_place = Lercara Friddi, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
|death_date = {{death date and age|1969|1|24|1892|5|4}}
|death_place = Houston, Texas, U.S.
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|resting_place = Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California
|other_names = Marty O'Brien
|education =
|occupation = Fireman, professional boxer, bar owner
|spouse = {{marriage|Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa|1913}}
|children = Frank Sinatra
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| module = {{Infobox firefighter|embed=yes
| department = Hoboken Fire Department
| years = 1927–1944
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Anthony Martin Sinatra (born Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra;{{rp|22}} {{IPA|it|saˈvɛːrjo antoˈniːno marˈtiːno siˈnaːtra}}; May 4, 1892 – January 24, 1969) was an Italian-American Hoboken city fireman, professional boxer, and bar owner. He was the father of entertainer Frank Sinatra.
Biography
Sinatra was born on 4 May 1892 at Lercara Friddi, to Francesco Sinatra (1857-1947) and Rosa Saglimbeni (1857-1928). He was their 6th child. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KJDV-K4Z
On December 21, 1903, he emigrated to New York City from Palermo, Sicily, on the SS Città di Milano with his mother Rosa Saglimbeni Sinatra, his sisters Angela and Dorotea, and his brother. His father, Francesco (1857-1947), born in Lercara Friddi,{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-27311-11205-85?cc=1947613&wc=MM54-MF8:1985475368|title=FamilySearch: Sign In|website=FamilySearch |accessdate=18 June 2023}} was already in the city working in a pencil factory earning eleven dollars a week, and his mother went on to own and operate a small grocery shop. Sinatra himself apprenticed as a shoemaker, until he started prize-fighting, calling himself Marty O'Brien, because Italians were not welcomed in boxing.[http://sinatrafamily.com/nancysbook/ Frank Sinatra: My Father] sinatrafamily.com[http://www.njboxinghof.org/cgi-bin/henryseehof.pl?420 Archived copy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007195335/http://www.njboxinghof.org/cgi-bin/henryseehof.pl?420 |date=2007-10-07 }} New Jersey Hall Of Fame{{better source needed|date=August 2022}}
On February 14, 1913, Sinatra eloped with Natalie Garaventa{{cite book|title=Sinatra: The Life|last1=Summers|first1=Anthony|last2=Swan|first2=Robbyn|year=2005|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|location=New York|isbn=0-375-41400-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/sinatralife00summ}}{{rp|25}} (also known as "Dolly"), in Jersey City, New Jersey, as Dolly's parents refused to host a wedding and did not approve of Marty, as he was illiterate, inferior at boxing, and was a Sicilian, whereas the Garaventa family were Ligurian.{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}}
The couple eventually moved to 415 Monroe Street, Hoboken, New Jersey. Their only child, Francis Albert Sinatra, was born on December 12, 1915.{{Cite web |last=Akalin |first=Ozgun |date=2011-06-03 |title=Birth of Frank Sinatra |url=https://www.thefranksinatra.com/articles/birth-of-frank-sinatra |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=Frank Sinatra Dedicated Blog |language=en-US}}
Sinatra continued his boxing career until he broke his wrists after 30 professional fights. He then attempted to find marine work but was rejected due to asthma. Dolly helped him find work as a fireman, and he was eventually appointed to the Hoboken Fire Department in 1927, where he attained the rank of Captain without having to take any formal exams.{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}}
While still a captain in the fire department, Sinatra and his wife opened a tavern, called Marty O'Brien's. With sufficient income, the family of three moved to a three-bedroom apartment, only a few blocks away from Monroe Street, but well out of Little Italy, at 703 Park Avenue.{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}}
Death
Sinatra suffered a fatal heart attack on January 24, 1969 at a Houston hospital at age 76.{{cite book|last=Kelley|first=Kitty|title=His Way: An Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzaF9mdI1XkC&pg=PT334|date=10 November 2010|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-76796-7|page=334}} He was buried at the Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California; other family members, including Frank Sinatra and Anthony's wife are buried nearby.{{cite book|last1=Brooks|first1=Patricia|title=Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous |chapter=Chapter 8: East L.A. and the Desert |page=245 |year=2006|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|location=Guilford, CT|isbn=978-0762741014|last2=Brooks |first2=Jonathan |oclc= 70284362}}
Popular culture
In the 1992 CBS miniseries Sinatra (a series about the life of his son Frank), he is portrayed by Joe Santos.
References
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External links
- [http://www.donaldclarkemusicbox.com/all-or-nothing/detail.php?c=2 Donald Clarke's Frank Sinatra Biography]
- {{Find a Grave|2955|Anthony Martin Sinatra|date=May 20, 1998|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}
- {{BoxRec|170618}}
- [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-27311-11205-85?cc=1947613&wc=MM54-MF8:1985475368 FamilySearch: Sign In]-Francesco Sinatra & Rosa Sagliabeni's Marriage Document Courtesy of Comune di Lercara Friddi, Palermo, Sicily, Italy & LDS
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Category:People from Lercara Friddi
Category:People from the Metropolitan City of Palermo
Category:20th-century American firefighters
Category:Drinking establishment owners
Category:Sportspeople from Hoboken, New Jersey
Category:Boxers from New York City
Category:Burials at Desert Memorial Park