Eduardo Georgetti, was an agriculturist, businessman, philanthropist, and politician.
25 Facts About Eduardo Georgetti
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Eduardo Georgetti was born in the town of Manati.
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Eduardo Georgetti's father was Dr Pedro Juan Giorgetti Battesti, an immigrant from Corsica and his mother Guadalupe Fernandez Vanga y Freites, native of Puerto Rico whose family were land owners.
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Eduardo Georgetti became orphaned at a young age and went to live with his maternal uncle.
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Eduardo Georgetti received his primary education in the Colegio de los Jesuitas de San Juan.
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Eduardo Georgetti inherited the lands of his parents which his uncle administrated, during the time that he was in Corsica pursuing his secondary education at the Liceo de Corcega.
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Eduardo Georgetti founded and was the owner of the Plazuela Sugar Company, a sugar refinery, in the town of Barceloneta which had its own dock that was used to transport sugar by barge to the waiting ships on the ocean.
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Eduardo Georgetti expanded his sugar industry empire by purchasing land and other sugar refineries.
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Eduardo Georgetti was the owner of the island's second largest pineapple plantation.
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On December 23,1897, Eduardo Georgetti was named Mayor of Barceloneta by Sabas Marin Gonzalez, the then-appointed Spanish governor of Puerto Rico.
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Eduardo Georgetti did not agree with this, and fought successfully for the re-establishment of Barceloneta as a separate, stand-alone municipality.
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Eduardo Georgetti continued to serve as mayor of Barceloneta from 1897 to 1898.
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Eduardo Georgetti was a member of the Liberal Party of Puerto Rico, which supported the Spanish government headed by Praxedes Mateo Sagasta, which had promised an autonomous government for Puerto Rico.
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The party won the elections in 1904 and Eduardo Georgetti was elected to the Puerto Rican House of Representatives.
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Eduardo Georgetti summoned Munoz Rivera's wife and son, Luis Munoz Marin, to Puerto Rico and informed them that he was suffering from an infection that had begun in the gallbladder, before expanding throughout his body.
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Eduardo Georgetti's 1914 Pierce Arrow automobile was used in the statesman's funeral procession.
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Together with a group of friends, Eduardo Georgetti purchased Munoz Rivera's newspaper La Democracia and provided Munoz Rivera's widow Amalia Marin Castilla with a small monthly pension.
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Eduardo Georgetti purchased the Munoz Rivera home in 1916 and donated it together with the Pierce Arrow car to the town of Barranquitas to be preserved as a national monument.
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Antonio R Barcelo was named President of the Puerto Rican Senate and Georgetti was named vice-president, thus becoming the first Puerto Rican to hold said position.
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Eduardo Georgetti was committed to the original independentista ideals of the Union Party, and found these incompatible with an "economic partnership" with the United States, as espoused by the Alliance coalition.
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Eduardo Georgetti's actions were viewed by Barcelo as an attempt by Eduardo Georgetti and the Fuerzas Vivas to discredit Barcelo and weaken the Alliance.
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The house, known as the "Casa Eduardo Georgetti," is the oldest Spanish colonial structure in Puerto Rico.
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Eduardo Georgetti was the president of the Children's Tuberculosis Sanitarium of Puerto Rico.
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Eduardo Georgetti died in his Santurce residence on November 26,1937.
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Eduardo Georgetti was buried at Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery.