Slides de Figueroa

Anna "Slides" de Figueroa is a Manhattan Newsie under the rule of Speedy Del Toro.

Early Life
Anna "Slides" de Figueroa was born on October 25, 1881 in the Bronx, New York City to Tomas de Figueroa and Isabel Barbosa, 3rd generation Spanish immigrants.

Name

 * Anna: Form of Channah (see HANNAH) used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament. Many later Old Testament translations, including the English, use the Hannah spelling instead of Anna.
 * de Figueroa: The Spanish surname Figueroa is a habitational name from any one of several small towns in Galicia, Spain, named Figueroa, from a derivative of figueira, meaning "fig tree."