Figure 1.--Here New York Mayor Fiolrello LaGuardia is shown taking his two adopted children to school. They are Eric and Jean. Jean was his niece. The photograph was taken November 6, 1937. . |
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La Guardia had two families. His first wife was Thea Almerigotti, an Italian (Istrian) immigrant. Istria was an area near Trueste, now part of Croatia. They married (1919). They had a daughter, Fioretta Thea La Guardia (1920). Theit daughter died of spinal meningitis (1921). His wife died soon after of tuberculosis. She was only 26 years old. La Guardia re-married to Marie Fisher (1895–1984) who had been his secretary in Congress while in Washington. They adopted two children. Eric Henry (1930- ). They were brought up in New York City. Eric graduated from Hobart College in upstste New York and becme a professor at the University of Washington. Jean Marie (1928–62) was La Guardia's niece from his first marriage, the daughter of Thea's sister. She graduated from Barnard College and became an editor of Mademoisell.
La Guardia Gluck, Gemma. Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story (Syracuse University Press: 1961).
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