Mayor Joseph Alioto, predecessor of lionhearted Mayor George Moscone, was born of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. No, he wasn't born in 1906, but a little backstory will shed light on this curious connection. Joseph's father, Giuseppe Alioto, had sailed from Palermo at the age of nine to the United States and ended up working on the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay.

In the Bay, he met and married Domenica Lazio, the daughter of Sicilian immigrants. (In fact, Giuseppe was one of three Alioto brothers who married three Lazio sisters and all lived in the same apartment building!) Anyhow, Giuseppe met Domenica on a fishing boat while escaping the carnage of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. 

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Source: http://sanfranciscoitaly.com/