Nationality Italian | Name Enrico Mosconi Role Engineer | |
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Died 1910, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
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Enrico Mosconi (1843-1910) was an Italian engineer, father of the General Enrique Mosconi. He had active participation in construction of the railways in the Argentine Republic.
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Personal life
Enrico Mosconi was born in 1843 in Milan, Kingdom of Italy, and he arrived in Argentina about 1869, for work related to construction of the Central Argentine Railway. In Buenos Aires he married María Juana Canavery, born in the city to Tomás Canaverys and Macedonia Castillo. Enrico and María Juana had five children: María (goddaughter of Adolfo Alsina), Ernestina, Enrique, Esther (goddaughter of José Zoilo Miguens) and Ricardo.
In 1881, María Juana Canavery died during the birth of Ricardo in France. Enrico Mosconi returned to Buenos Aires that year with the two youngest children, leaving the older children in a school in Nice. He then married María Luisa Matti, with whom he had five children: Mario Guillermo, godson of Carlos Pellegrini, Raúl Domingo, Enriqueta, María Luisa and María Josefa.
Enrico was brother of Eduardo Mosconi, married with Emma Wahl (Swiss), parents of Sara Mosconi, wife of Juan Bird Guillon (1868-1932), belonging to a family of Irish origin. His second wife, María Luisa Matti was daughter of Guillermo Matti, a businessman, linked to the construction of the Buenos Aires Campana railway). and Hermenegilda Pagani, both were natives of Switzerland.
On April 20, 1898, Cristina Esther Mosconi Canavery was married in the parish of Balvanera with Agustín Gorchs of Catalan origin. He was brother of Antonino Benigno Gorchs, the founder of the town of Gorchs, located in General Belgrano.
Career
Settled permanently in Argentina, Mosconi worked as an engineer for the laying of a telegraph network. In Santa Fe he was commissioned to draw a plan for railway línes. On February 25, 1888 he founded the city of Villa Gobernador Gálvez. He created a journal for the Italian community in the city Rosario.