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]

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References

  1. Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 20.
  2. 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.
  3. http://ponce.inter.edu/cai/connections/html/archivo.html Archivo Municipal de Ponce.
  4. http://www.letsgotoponce.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=139&Itemid=81 After Paris
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.

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