Dominick Cascino and his wife, Anna (La Barbera) Cascino, were residents of Baucina, a town of Sicily, twenty-five miles southeast of Palermo, Italy, at the time of the birth of their son, George Cascino, March 1, 1882. Seven years later the family left Sicily and in New York City public schools the lad, George, completed his studies with graduation. During the years 1893-98 Brooklyn was his home and there he learned the barber's trade. In 1898 he entered the employ of William Lauterbach, a large New York City manufacturer of pants, and continued with that firm twelve years, becoming manager of the operating department, and developing strong ability as a business man.
In 1910 he began the upbuilding of a business of his own, starting a small plant at No. 178 Malcolm street, Garfield, New Jersey. At that time, business in Garfield was greatly depressed and for about one year Mr. Cascino, in order to help furnish employment for many women, contracted with New York manufacturers the "finishing" process of one thousand pairs of pants daily, personally attending to the shipment and transportation. During this period he was engaged in constructing a factory building, and upon its completion in 1911 he began business as a pants manufacturer under contract with leading New York houses. For ten years he has continued thus and gained high reputation as a man of business integrity and ability. In March 1921, he retired from the contracting field in order to himself become a manufacturer, joining with others in forming an independent firm, The Garfield Pants Manufacturing Company, with offices at No. 722 Broadway, New York. He was not satisfied in that connection, however, and in December, 1921, he withdrew from the corporation and resumed his old business as a contractor in his own factory, No. 178 Malcolm street, Garfield, New Jersey. He has been very successful in his business and has other Garfield interests.
Mr. Cascino is a Democrat in politics and in January 1922 was elected a justice of the peace for Garfield. During the war period, 1917-18, he aided freely in Liberty Loan drives, his own factory hands purchasing bonds to the amount of $3,000, a one-hundred percent. record for the Cascino force of twenty-eight people. At the present time (1922), he is a member of the advisory board. He is a member of Mount Virgin Roman Catholic Church; treasurer of the Third Ward Citizen's Club, the Democratic Forum, and Independent Sons of Italy, all of Garfield.
George Cascino married, in New York City, August 15, 1907, Maria Carmela Oliva, of that city, daughter of Alphonzo and Carmela (Maneri) Oliva, her father a roofing contractor. Mrs. Cascino is president of the Regina Elena, Independent Daughters of Italy, which she was instrumental in organizing. She is also a member of the Ladies' Democractic Forum of Garfield. Mr. and Mrs. Cascino are the parents of three children, all born in Garfield: Anna, born August 11, 1908, now a student in Garfield High School, having completed grammar school courses; Carmela, born April 9, 1910; Dominick, born July 19, 1913.
From: History of Passaic and its environs: historical, biographical. By Scott, William W. Published 1922.
