Edoardo Agnelli (entrepreneur, born 1831)

Edoardo Carlo Tommaso Agnelli, better known as Edoardo Agnelli, was the youngest son of Giuseppe Francesco Agnelli and Anna Maria Maggia. He was the father of Giovanni Agnelli, co-founder of FIAT.[1] At birth he was baptised at home with the Superior's permission and six days later in the Church of San Carlo in Turin. His godparents were Tommaso Ferrero and Anna Maria Chiarini.[2]

Edoardo participated in the administration of Villar Perosa and was member of the city board since 1866. He became a protagonist of the city life in the Turin of his time. He was also active in the cultural field by joining the "Society for Promotion of the Fine Arts".[3]

In 1865 Edoardo married Aniceta Frisetti, who belonged to a wealthy family and with whom he had three children:

• Giovanni, co-founder of FIAT, who was born in Villar Perosa on 13 August 1866 and died in Turin on 16 December 1945.[4]
• Carolina, who was born in the house of Via Cernaia 30 in Turin on 11 April 1868 and died at an early age.[5]
• Felicita Carola Anna Giustina Maria, who was born in Villar Perosa on 3 November 1869 and died at a very young age on 22 February 1871.[6][7]

• Gustavo Mola di Nomaglio, Gli Agnelli. Storia e genealogia di una grande famiglia piemontese dal XVI secolo al 1866, Torino, Centro Studi Piemontesi, 1998, ISBN 88-8262-099-9