Gabriele Lupo, a banker and steamship ticket agent, doing business at 819 Dixwell avenue in New Haven, was born October 24, 1877, at Castelpagano, province di Benevento, Italy, a son of the late Peter Lupo, who was a carpenter and builder by trade, conducting a very successful business in his native city. His wife, Eda Greco, was also a native of Italy, and they became the parents of six sons and a daughter.

  Gabriele Lupo, the third in order of birth in the family, attended the high school of his native city and a local college, and when eighteen years of age started out in the business world as a bookkeeper. At twenty years of age he joined the army and served for three years, holding the rank of corporal. After leaving the army in 1901 he came to America, arriving in New York in July of that year and making his way direct to New Haven, where he was immediately employed by the Greist Manufacturing Company and the Winchester Arms Company. In 1901 he entered the banking business at 21 Goodrich street, New Haven, and during his banking career he also studied chemistry and embalming, being graduated from the Barnes School of Anatomy in New York city. He there won his diploma in January, 1916, and received a license on state examination on the 9th of April, 1917. In November, 1913, he erected a building at 819 Dixwell avenue in New Haven, which is his bank and residence, and he has won a creditable position among the leading private bankers of his adopted city. He also deals in real estate and makes a specialty of a foreign money business. His bank is capitalized for ten thousand dollars.

  In 1903, in New Haven, Mr. Lupo was married to Miss Theresa Cocco, a native of Italy, and they have become parents of six children, four sons and two daughters, Peter, Ralph, Eda, Angelina, Luke and Salvatore, all born in New Haven.

  The family are communicants of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Lupo is identified with several Italian societies, holding membership with the Sons of Italy, the Castelpagano Society, of which he is the president, and the Liberty Society. He was also, at one time, president of the Sons of Italy. He took out his naturalization papers in 1905 and since securing the right of franchise has given his political allegiance to the republican party. He has met with substantial success in the conduct of his business affairs and has never had occasion to regret his determination to try his fortune on this side of the Atlantic.  (Updated information below.)
 
 

 1/20/2004  Email from Pattie Heyer, granddaughter of Gabriele Lupo.
   I was reviewing your website and found an error in my grandfather's write up.  His name is Gabriele Lupo and he had nine children, not six.  There were six boys and three girls.  The names that are missing are the three last children he and my grandmother had, in their order are Daniel, Lillian and John.