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HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY lea, June 27, 1887, he is a son of Octavius Anzano, now deceased, who served for seven years in the Italian army, and from 1863 to 1865 was engaged in agricultural work in Italy, and of Lucia (Morese) An- zano, who is now living in West Ho- boken. The early education of Ralph Anzano was received in his native land, where he attended the public elementary and high schools, but in 1903, when he was a lad of fifteen years, he came to this coun- try, and it was here that his education was completed. After preparing for col- lege in the Harlem Preparatory School, he became a student in Valparaiso Uni- versity, where he completed a general course. In 1911 he removed to New York City, where he found employment in a phamaceutical concern. Four years later, in 1915, he entered the College of Jersey City, from which he was graduated as a pharmacist in 1918. Upon the com- pletion of his pharmaceutical course he enlarged his practical experience by one year spent in the employ of Mr. Franck, proprietor of a pharmacy at Union Hill, New Jersey, and one year in the employ of Harry Biskoff in Weehawken, New Jersey. In 1919 he purchased the busi- ness of Joseph Anrig, druggist, of West Hoboken, New Jersey, and since that time has been successfully engaged in de- veloping that enterprise. His thorough knowledge of his business and his sound business methods are bringing him an ex- tensive patronage, and his establishment Is recognized as one of the first-class con- cerns of its kind in the city. Politically Mr. Anzano has been especially active. He casts his vote independently and gives his support to all measures which he con- siders to be wisely planned for the pub- lic good, irrespective of political organ- ization. He is a member of the North Hudson Pharmaceutical Association and of the State Pharmaceutical Association. His fraternal affiliation is with the Knights of Columbus, of Weehawken, and his religious affiliation is with the Catholic church of West Hoboken. On August 10, 1916, at Union Hill, New Jersey, Ralph Anzano married Concet- tina DeRiso, daughter of Mauro DeRiso, who 1s engaged in business as a contrac- tor, and of Victoria DeRiso, both of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Anzano are the parents of one son, Octavius, born September 5, 1917. FALCONE, Michele, Business Man. A native of Italy, where he lived until 1906, Mr. Falcone has established him- self with a large concern doing an im- porting and exporting business in drugs, and won considerable success in real es- tate and insurance business in Hoboken, where he now resides. His father, Frank Falcone, living in retirement at West Or- ange, New Jersey, was president of a bank in Italy for a period of twenty years. The mother, Louise (Alliagro) Falcone, is deceased. Michele Falcone was born in Padula, Italy, June 24, 1882, and educated in the public schools there and at Salerno Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1902. Later he secured employment as a tele- graph operator, remaining at that work until coming to America in June, 1906. From 1908 to 1910 he conducted a steam- ship agency in Newark, New Jersey, known as the Fera and Falcone Com- pany, then moved to Hoboken and opened a real estate and insurance office in 1017, also a steamship agency which is now lo- cated on Fifth street, Hoboken. At the present time he is engaged as secretary for the Importing and Exporting Com- pany, Incorporated, of Providence, Rhode Island, which concern handles wholesale drugs and medicinal products, in which672