José María Quesada Explained

José María Quesada
Order1:46th
Office1:Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Term Start1:1 October 1848
Term End1:31 December 1848[1]
Predecessor1:Juan Lacot
Successor1:Juan Prats
Birth Date:ca. 1778
Birth Place:Spain[2]
Death Date:ca. 1858
Spouse:Maria del Rosario Perez
Children:José María,[3] Eustaquio,[4] Eustaquia[5]
Occupation:Merchant[6] and Hacendado[7]

José María Quesada[8] (ca. 1778  - ca. 1858) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 October 1848[9] to 31 December 1848.[10]

Background

Quesada was a Spaniard who migrated to Puerto Rico from Venezuela in 1819, establishing himself in Ponce. His wife was Maria del Rosario Perez, and they had three children, Jose Maria (Jr.), Eustaquio and Eustaquia.[11]

Merchant business

In 1826,[12] Quesada and his two male children formed a business corporation in Ponce and established it as a financial services company focused on money lending.[13] On 27 February 1820 there was a fire in Ponce that destroyed almost the entire city. Over one hundred of the best residences in the city were destroyed and most of the businesses, and two-thirds of the townspeople were left homeless. Among the business losses were Jose Maria Quesada's.[14]

See also

References

  1. Eduardo Neumann Gandía. "Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. p.277.
  2. Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto Inc. 2015. p. 344.
  3. Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto Inc. 2015. pp. 115, 196, 199, 214.
  4. Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto Inc. 2015. p. 344.
  5. Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto Inc. 2015. p. 348.
  6. Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto Inc. 2015. p. 101.
  7. Francisco Antonio Scarano. Sugar and slavery in Puerto Rico: the municipality of Ponce, 1815-1849. Appendix A: "On the National Origin of the Hacendados." p. 446. Ph.D. Thesis. Columbia University. 1978.Citing, Archivo General de Puerto Rico (AGPR), Records of the Spanish Governors of Puerto Rico [formerly, Record Group # 186 at the National Archives, Washington, D.C.], Political and Civil Affairs, entry 9, box 14, "Lista...de los vecinos blancos...")
  8. https://enciclopediapr.org/encyclopedia/municipio-de-ponce/#1465331383974-fc51e170-c3cd Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia.
  9. "Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce." 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p.277.
  10. "Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce." 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p.277.
  11. Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto Inc. 2015. pp. 344-346, 348.
  12. Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia. San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto. 2015. p. 295.
  13. Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto Inc. 2015. pp. 344-346.
  14. Ivette Perez Vega. Las Sociedades Mercantiles de Ponce (1816-1830). San Juan, PR: Ediciones Puerto Inc. 2015. p. 101.

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