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Author of "Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce." Andrés Ramos Mattei, sugar industry historian Said to be "the undisputed authority" on the subject of Puerto Rico's sugar industry. Gladys Esther Tormes González, historian Head archivist and longest-serving archivist at the "Archivo Historico de Ponce".
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.
Luis Manuel Irizarry Pabón was born on 12 November 1958 [3] in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His parents were Félix Irizarry and Carmen Lydia Pabón. [3] [5] A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, [3] [5] Irizarry Pabón was an internal medicine physician prior to becoming Ponce's mayor-elect in November 2020. [6]
Marín moved to the city of Ponce during the tumultuous years of the late 1860s, [12] joining Manuel Gregorio Tavárez and Manuel Zeno Gandia. [13]On 21 May 1874, Marín founded his first newspaper "El Avisador." [14] In May 1875 he published his second paper in Ponce, "La Crónica de Ponce", later renamed "La Crónica". [15]
Salvador de Vives Rodó (1784 – 24 November 1845 [7]), also known as Salvador Vives, was a Puerto Rican hacendado and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1840 to 5 January 1842 [8] [9] and then again from 1 January 1844 to 24 November 1845. His son, Carlos Vives, was a member of the Ponce Municipal Assembly.
[8] [a] On 1800, Benítez reported that the municipality of Ponce (then called "Partido de Ponce") measured 200 "caballerías", that is, 38,800 acres (60.6 sq mi). [b] He categorized the jurisdiction into cotos, hatos, criaderos, monterías, and terrenos realengos. [9] Cotos were lands awarded to residents as reward for their services to the king.
Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 334. Item 1666. LCCN 92-75480; Ponce. Ordenanzas de policía urbana urbana y rural para la ciudad de Ponce y su termino municipal; aprobadas por el Excmo. Sr. Gobernador General en 24 de febrero de 1888. 2. ed. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta de Manuel Lopez, 1904 ...
José Benito Paz Falcón (c. 1800 – c. 1860) was one of five interim mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico, during the period of 14 February 1854 to 24 July 1854. [2] [3] The other four interim mayors during that six-month period were Julio Duboc, Escolástico Fuentes, Pablo Manfredi, and Antonio E. Molina.