The Vaccaro Bros. company dealt with fruit importing and later providing ice for refrigeration steamships.
During the late 1850s, Stefano was a revolutionary involved with Giuseppe Garibaldi, and served in the Second Italian War of Independence.
[citation needed] Giuseppe "Joseph" Vaccaro (1855-1945) was born on November 2, 1855, in Contessa Entellina, Italy.
[citation needed] Luca Vaccaro (1858-1936) was born on June 5, 1858, in Contessa Entellina, Italy.
His second marriage was to an American woman named Marie Louise Tranchand whom he married in 1894 in Manhattan.
The couple had seven children together and stayed married until Luca's death in New Orleans on November 29, 1936, at the age of 78.
[citation needed] Felix Philip Vaccaro (1866-1943) was born on February 20, 1866, in Contessa Entellina, Italy.
[citation needed] To escape the Second Italian War of Independence, Stefano Vaccaro immigrated to the United States in 1860 and settled in New Orleans.
[2] In 1899, Joseph's daughter Maria married a Sicilian immigrant named Salvador D'Antoni (1874-1957).
[citation needed] The same year, the Vaccaro brothers brought D'Antoni into the company and bought a beachfront property in La Ceiba, Honduras, to build a harbor as they intended to buy a fleet of ships.
The Vaccaro Bros. worked with Dávila's government to fund roadways, railways, and shipping wharves.
[5] As a result, in 1911, Zemurray ordered mercenaries Lee Christmas and Guy Molony to oust Dávila.
[6] Dávila was successfully replaced in March 1911 by Francisco Bertrand, who resigned in February 1912 and was replaced with Manuel Bonilla,[7] who favored Cuyamel over the Vaccaro Bros.[5] The Vaccaro Bros. made up for the loss of profits from Honduras by expanding their business into providing ice for steamships with refrigerators.
[citation needed] The company used some of their newfound profits to provide funding for Honduras' first bank, Banco Atlántida in La Ceiba, which was opened in 1913.