Giuseppe Caporrino first appears in the Painesville, Ohio, area between 1935 and 1940. He migrated to Painesville from Cleveland. In America, Giuseppe Caporrino was known as Joseph Caporrino.
Giuseppe Caporrino, son of Francesco Caporrino, was born on January 16, 1900, at Palermo, Sicily.
Giuseppe immigrated to the United States on December 2, 1923, at age 23, travelling to New Y0rk City. He was joining his father, Francesco Caporrino, in New York City. Giuseppe Caporrino was enumerated for the 1940 Census of the United States, on April 9, 1940, living at 365 Sanford Street, Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, as a lodger of Pasquale Caione.
How Giuseppe was related to other Painesville Italians, Salvatore Caporrino, Antonio Fontana (his mother was a Caporrino), or Salvatore DiMaggio (his wife was a Caporrino) is not known.