Luis de Quixano y Font explained
Honorific Prefix: | Coronel |
Luis de Quixano y Font |
Order: | 63rd |
Office: | Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico |
Term Start: | 11 July 1863 |
Term End: | 23 June 1865 |
Predecessor: | Hilarión Pérez Guerra |
Successor: | Francisco Olazarra |
Birth Date: | c. 1810 |
Death Date: | c. 1880 |
Profession: | Military |
Luis de Quixano y Font (c. 1810 - c. 1880) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 11 July 1863 to 23 June 1865.
Background
Quixano Font was a retired Spanish colonel that performed as corregidor mayor of Ponce. He was also an early propeller of the celebration of the fiestas patronales in Ponce.[1]
Mayoral term
Luis de Quixano y Font is best known for building the now-historic 65-kiosk Plaza del Mercado de Ponce in 1863.[2] [3] Occupying a full city block, this farmers' market was modeled after the Paris farmers' market.[4] Luis de Quixano is also credited with setting up the first lighting of the city, when he ordered the installation of 16 oil-based lampposts around Plaza Las Delicias in 1864.[5] Upon leaving his mayoral duties in Ponce on 23 June 1865, Quixano y Font became mayor of San German.[6] [7]
See also
References
- Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 20.
- Socorro Girón. Ponce, el teatro La Perla, y la campana de la Almudaina: Historia de Ponce desde sus comienzos hasta la segunda decada del siglo XX. Page 105. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Gobierno Municipal de Ponce. 1992. Impreso por Editora Corripio, C. por A. Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana. LOC Catalog Number: 85-90989. Registration Number: TX-1-977-212.
- http://ponce.inter.edu/cai/connections/html/archivo.html Archivo Municipal de Ponce.
- http://www.letsgotoponce.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=139&Itemid=81 After Paris
- Neysa Rodriguez Deynes, Rafael J. Torres Torres, and Carlos Aneiro Perez. Brevario Sobre la Historia de Ponce y sus Principales Lugares de Interes. Published by Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 1st edition. 1991. p. 105.
- Socorro Girón. Ponce, el teatro La Perla, y la campana de la Almudaina: Historia de Ponce desde sus comienzos hasta la segunda decada del siglo XX. Page 103. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Gobierno Municipal de Ponce. 1992. Impreso por Editora Corripio, C. por A. Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana.
- https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2013201074/1865-06-10/ed-1/seq-1/ Gobierno Capitanía General de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Secretaria de Gobierno, Puerto Rico. Parte Oficial. 5 June 1865.
Further reading
- Ramon Marin. Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce. Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico. 1994.
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