Sacco was a shoemaker and a night watchman,[3] born April 22, 1891 in Torremaggiore, Province of Foggia, Apulia region (in Italian: Puglia), Italy, who migrated to the United States at the age of seventeen.[4] Vanzetti was a fishmonger born June 11, 1888 in Villafalletto, Province of Cuneo, Piedmont region, who arrived in the United States at the age of twenty. Both men left Italy for the US in 1908,[5] although they did not meet until a 1917 strike.[6]