Manuel Rionda Explained

Manuel Rionda y Polledo
Birth Date:1854
Birth Place:Noreña, Spain
Death Date:1943
Death Place:Alpine, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation:Businessman
Spouse:Harriet Clarke

Manuel Rionda (1854–1943) was a Spanish-born, US-based sugar baron in Cuba.

Early life

Manuel Rionda was born in 1854 in Noreña, Spain.[1] [2] The Rionda family began investing in Cuban sugar in the 1860s.[3] By 1870, when Rionda was sixteen, Rionda emigrated to Cuba.[2]

Career

Rionda co-founded the Czarnikow-Rionda Company with Julius Caesar Czarnikow in 1909.[4] By 1915, he co-founded the Cuba Cane Sugar Company with his family.[2]

Rionda was the owner of sugar plantations in Cuba.[1] Prior to the 1930s, Czarnikow-Rionda Company "sold 40 per cent of Cuba's sugar".[2]

Personal life

Rionda married Harriet Clarke,[1] and they resided at Rio Vista estate, a 300-acre estate in Alpine, New Jersey.[1] [5] They had no children, but they raised his orphaned nephew, Manuel Enrique Rionda, who later resided on the Glen Goin estate in Alpine with his wife, Ellen Goin.[1]

Death and legacy

Rionda died in 1943.[6] A tower designed by architect Charles Rollinson Lamb on his former estate still stands in Alpine, New Jersey, one of the most affluent zipcodes in the United States.[7] [8]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Davis. E. Emory. Nelsen. Eric. New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Park. 2007. Arcadia Publishing. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. 9780738549729. 29–32. 144399264.
  2. Whitney. Robert. Reviewed Work: Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba by Muriel McAvoy. Journal of Latin American Studies. November 2004. 36. 4. 831–832. 10.1017/S0022216X0442851X. 3875561.
  3. Smith. Mark. The Political Economy of Sugar Production and the Environment of Eastern Cuba, 1898-1923. Environmental History Review. 1995. 19. 4. 31–48. 10.2307/3984691. 3984691.
  4. Web site: Braga Brothers Collection - Contents List Continued: Record Group 3: Records of the Czarnikow-Rionda Company 1891-1984. George A. Smathers Libraries. University of Florida. April 24, 2016.
  5. Web site: [Manuel Rionda's 'Rio Vista' Estate, Alpine, NJ]]. Central University Libraries. Southern Methodist University. April 24, 2016.
  6. News: Sugar Magnate Passes. April 22, 2016. Medford Mail Tribune. September 3, 1943. Medford, Oregon. 11. Newspapers.com. registration . Manuel Rionda, 81, sugar company executive died late yesterday at his estate here..
  7. News: Clemence. Sara. The Most Expensive Home In New Jersey. https://web.archive.org/web/20050215185529/http://www.forbes.com/2005/02/14/cx_sc_0214how.html. dead. February 15, 2005. April 24, 2016. Forbes. February 14, 2005.
  8. News: A Tower In Alpine, N.J.. April 24, 2016. The New York Times. February 22, 1998.

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