Enrico Felice Attilio Rivoire

Rivoire was born into a Waldensian family on 6 January 1873, in Genoa, Italy, the son of Jean Pierre Rivoire (1848–1886) and Louise Jahier Sahier (1852–1910). His brother Ernesto (1875–1879) was born in Pinerolo, and his other brother Emanuel (1877-1946) in Pramollo.

Educated in Pramollo and Litt.B (Liceo Carmagnola), he was ordained by the Waldensian Tavola.

He arrived in Boston, USA on 15 October 1892, and took an STB at Boston University (1896). In 1901 he was ordained in the Congregational Conference and took out naturalization papers. The next year (April 1902) he was appointed by the Massachusetts Home Mission Society of the Congregational Conference to a newly established Italian Conference in the North End of Boston. A week later, he led the establishment of an Italian Christian Endeavour association in the congregation meeting at 170 Hanover Street. The work was particularly focused on children's missions, with special Christmas and Sunday School events attracting hundreds of children, for whom proceedings were translated by Rivoire into Italian. With Canio Cerreta and others, Rivoire founded an annual Italian Conference of Connecticut and Massachusetts, where they gathered the Italian protestant ministers and missionaries and shared information about missional approaches. In 1906, it is possible that he was joined there by his older cousin and another Waldensian minister who migrated to the USA, Daniel Rivoire (1 February 1858 Angrogna, Torino -3 September 1911, Altadena, Los Angeles), who went on to minister at the Plymouth Congregational Church.

He transferred to pastor in Montreal, Canada.

In 1912, he married Gemmina Mandorino (1894–1976) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

In 1913 he transferred by the United Presbyterian Church to found an Italian mission in Los Angeles, California, USA, centred on 209 Ord St., LA. When the Waldensian Tavola's representative in the USA, Davide Bosio toured California in 1913 with an eye to establishing a Waldensian colony in the expanding agricultural industry there, Rivoire was referred to as 'his cousin'. (Los Angeles Express 14 June 1913: 17)

He died on 5 January 1917, in Los Angeles, California.

Sources:

Ancestry.com

Newspapers.com

Tourn, Sara, 'Daniele Rivoire', Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia, online. https://www.studivaldesi.org/dizionario/evan_det.php?evan_id=370&str=rivoire