Henry Woodhouse

Henry Woodhouse (1884–1970) was an Italian-born US aviation writer, magazine publisher, investor, and collector. Earlier life Henry Woodhouse was born Mario Terenzio Enrico Casalegno on June 24, 1884, in Turin, Italy. According to his own later account, Woodhouse's father died before he finished school. The young Woodhouse had to settle his father's debts using unspecified means. He later pursued academics in France, Britain, Switzerland and Belgium, and studied languages, economics, sociology and aeronautics. The schools he attended were never mentioned by name. In 1904, Casalengo moved to the US and got a job in a restaurant kitchen in Troy, New York. He got into a fight with the head chef and killed him with a kitchen knife. Casalengo maintained that the other man had accidentally impaled himself on the knife. He was arrested and sentenced to four years in Clinton Prison in Dannemora, New York. He was released in 1909.