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Amadeo Pietro Giannini, also known as A.P. Giannini, was the man who began the democratization of banking and helped California become one of the world's largest economies. Amadeo was the son of Italian immigrants.
Amadeo Pietro Giannini was born in San Jose, California, to Italian immigrant parents. He was the first son of Luigi Giannini (1840–1877) and Virginia (née Demartini) Giannini (1854–1920). Luigi Giannini immigrated to the United States from Favale di Malvaro near Genoa, Liguria in the Kingdom of Sardinia (later part of Italy) to prospect ...
Amadeo Gianini. A native of San Jose, California, Amadeo Peter Giannini became a true booster of the San Francisco region and the financial guarantor of the Golden Gate Bridge. Born into a...
A documentary about the life of Amadeo Peter Giannini. Founder of Bank of Italy first, Bank of America later. He rebuilt San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Virginia Giannini, a widow at age 21 and pregnant with her third child, was determined to keep the farm and provide for her children. With Amadeo at her side, she traveled 42 miles by boat to San...
Their son Amadeo, born in San Jose in May, 1870, would take his own risks in the world of banking. Bank of Italy As a young man, Giannini succeeded in the wholesale produce business, but grew...
Part of an astonishing rags-to-riches story, Amadeo Giannini, a first-generation American, founded the Bank of Italy, a San Francisco institution that would later become one of the world's...
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