Al Capone was possibly the largest and most feared mofia boss
America has ever seen. This 1920's gangster made his mark on the world
through organized crime during the Prohibition era. He is solely attributed
with Chicago's reputation as a lawless city.
Alphonsus Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New
York. As a child he was a member of the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty
Thieves Juniors "kid gangs." Capone quit school at age fourteen in the sixth
grade. He worked a few odd jobs in Manhattan in a bowling alley and a
candy store. Then Capone took a position as a bouncer in Frankie Yale's
Brooklyn dive and the Harvard Inn. While working at the Inn he was
attacked by a man and received the facial scars that would give him the
byname "Scarface."
Capone met Anne "Mae" Coughlin at a dance in 1918. Later that year
on December 4, 1918 she gave birth to their son, Albert "Sonny" Francis.
Less than a month later they were married.
Capone became a......
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