S. S. Cherokee Ellis Island Manifest of Zoilo H. Garcia

Zoilo H Garcia arrived in the U.S. in 1911, at the age of 30. He had come from La Vega, Dominican Republic to Washington D.C. He stayed with the “Dominican Legation” in D.C. He was a civil engineer at the time of arrival at the port of Ellis Island. According to a piece in the social chronicles of the Dominican magazine Blanco y Negro, Zoilo had just invented a new airplane model, and had been hired by the United States government to build an airplane according to his calculations, which “resolved the problem of the plane’s stability.”

Drawn from the research of CUNY DSI Research Associate Vivian Guerrero Aquino, this story is part of the Institute’s Ellis Island Project, which chronicles the arrival of Dominican immigrants and preserves their personal histories.

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