When Guisseppe Pepinia Altomare was born on 19 October 1869, in Rogliano, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, his father, Nicola Altomare, was 42 and his mother, Maria Domenica Francesca Salvino, was 35. He had at least 1 son with Maria Caterina Stumpo. He died before 1956, at the age of 85.