Richard A. Cimiotti
Abb.:Richard A. Cimiotti (Foto Priv.Arch.G.O.Cimiotti)
Richard Angell CIMIOTTI was born at 54 Bond (now St. Marie) Street in Pittsburgh, Pa November 12 ,1907.He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University where he majored in Architecture. He was employed by Smith & Reif, Architects, the Pennsylvania Railroad and their consulting engineers, Gibbs & Hill, Inc., Universal Credit Company and Johns-Manville.
After coming to Ardsley he participated in civic affairs. He ran a close race for the office of Village Trustee and was a member, and later Chairman, of the Zoning Board of Appeals for many years. When the New York Central Railroad proposed discontinuance of their Putnam Division Line through Ardsley, he organized and became Co-Chairman of the Commuters´Association and succeeded in deferring the loss of service for two years. He served on several committees of the Board of Education toward building the Elementary and Junior-Senior High Schools in Ardsley. He was a member of the congregation of the Fort Washington Prespyterian Church, which he served as a Deacon and an Elder. After moving to Ardsley his membership was transferred to the Irvington (N.Y.) Presbyterian Church which he served as Trustee.
On April 1962 Richard A. Cimiotti presented to the public five copies of his book "TWO AND ONE HALF CENTURIES OF THE CIMIOTTI FAMILY". Thirty years ago he had started to accumulate material about the Cimiotti family, stimulated by the advice of John D. Grier (later his father-in-law). In addition to the old documents which were included, he obtained further information from relatives, municipal directories, cemetery records and diaries. He only used "factual data", as he pointed out. One of the major factors in developing the American genealogy of the family was a document dated August 30, 1735. It was the translation in German of a letter-of-safe-conduct which was given to Leonard(o) Cimiotti by the Gastaldo of Tolmezzo when he was about to settle in Amöneburg(Hessen/Germany).Richard called this letter "international letter of introduction". The book contains about 270 members of the family,most of them in the USA.
Richard A. Cimiotti died November 3, 1994.