City: Memphis
CANALE, Domenico, business man; born in Italy, Jan. 16, 1843; in February, 1859, he started for the New World in a sailing vessel, landed in New Orleans after a voyage of sixty-five days, took steamer for Memphis, and arrived there on 1st of May; he secured immediate employment from his uncles, the Vaccaros, and for ten years worked for wages, and in 1869 engaged in the fruit business in a modest way on his own account; he has remained in that line of business for forty years, and at present he is head of the wholesale fruit firm of D. Canale & Co., Memphis, Tenn.; married Catherine SOLARI in 1869; member of Business Men’s Club.
