Background
Arrighi, Antonio Andrea was born on September 25, 1835 in Florence, Italy. Son of Luca and Angiola (del Darme) Arrighi.
Arrighi, Antonio Andrea was born on September 25, 1835 in Florence, Italy. Son of Luca and Angiola (del Darme) Arrighi.
Served as drummer boy in Garibaldi’s Army at the siege of Rome, 1849. Came to America, 1855. Ohio Wesleyan University, 1861-1863.
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, 1863. Graduate Boston Theological Seminary, 1869.
Missionary Methodist Episcopal Church at Florence, Italy, 1871-1880. Founded the first Italian mission in American at the Five Points, New York, 1881. Sent by Free Evangelical Church of Italy as delegate to Pan-Presbyterian Council, Philadelphia, 1880.
Ordained, 1875, by Bishop Mathew Simpson in the city of Rome and is the first man of Protestant faith ever ordained in that city. Member Presbytery, New New York Author: The Story of Antonio, the Galley Slave. Address: 395 Broome St., New New York.
Member Presbytery, New New York.
Married Emma Vining, of Delaware, O., October 3, 1865.