“At 21 I had just been graduated as a doctor from Cornell Medical School, when my father died, leaving the support of my mother and several children to my brother and myself.
“Knowing that it would be a long time before I could make enough money out of medicine to support my family, I thought of getting a job. But before I did that my brother and I decided that we would try to finish a building my father had left half completed. So we tackled the job, and much to our surprise we discovered that we know more about building that we realized, and that determined us to make our living through building operations.” – Dr. Charles V. Paterno.
TODAY Dr. Paterno is the record apartment building of New York. He has built around 100 large and many luxurious apartment houses, and about 50,000 people in New York owe their homes to him.
The San Francisco Bulletin 21 August 1924