47 Facts About Gabriel Daza

Gabriel Daza co-founded the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, Philippine Telegraph and Telephone Co.

Gabriel Daza was the supervising engineer and assistant general manager of Visayan Electric Company and led its expansion out of Cebu City.

In 1945, President Osmena appointed Daza to be a member of the board of directors of the Manila Railroad Company and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.

In 1951, Gabriel Daza was appointed by President Quirino as a founding member of the board of directors of the National Shipyard and Steel Corporation.

Gabriel Daza was born and raised in Borongan, Eastern Samar, to Don Eugenio Gabriel Daza and his wife, Carolina Cinco.

Gabriel Daza was a principale through his father, while the social class was slowly dissolved following American colonialism, Gabriel Daza retained the principale honorific title of Don.

Gabriel Daza was the eldest of 7 siblings: Carlota, Cirilo, Jesus, Rosario, Maria and Juan.

Gabriel Daza was born 3 months before his father left to fight in the Philippine Revolution.

In 1907, when Gabriel Daza was 11, his father became the Representative of their region to the First Philippine Legislature.

Gabriel Daza stated his experience in these odd jobs were the reason he was known for his cleanliness, orderliness, and fondness for nature.

Gabriel Daza's US World War I draft registration card states that he was an American citizen.

In 1915, Gabriel Daza moved to the US to attend Herald's Engineering College in San Francisco, California.

Gabriel Daza then studied at the Bliss Electrical School in Washington, DC where he graduated in 1919.

Shortly after, Gabriel Daza moved to Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, where he lodged at the home of a fellow electrical engineer Everett Ashworth who had recently married and moved from Washinghton, New York.

Gabriel Daza worked at the mainplant of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a company that employed the likes of Nikola Tesla, and studied in the Westinghouse Educational Department.

Gabriel Daza joined the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Bliss Electrical School Alumni Association.

In 1922, Gabriel Daza worked as an electrical engineer and salesman for Catton-Neill Eng.

On December 3,1927, Gabriel Daza became a full member of the AIEE.

In Cebu City, as early as 1927, Gabriel Daza was the Supervising Engineer and Assistant General Manager of the Visayan Electric Company, and the Assistant General Manager of the Visayan Electric Supply Company.

Gabriel Daza led the expansion of VECO out of the Cebu City.

In 1929, Gabriel Daza went to the Philippine Legislature in Manila to develop a new franchise for VECO.

From 1930 to 1939, Gabriel Daza was the Illuminating Engineer of the executive staff, and Electrical Engineer of the Philippine Carnival Association.

Gabriel Daza co-founded the Philippine Electric Manufacturing Company and Phelps Dodge Philippines.

From 1936 to 1937, Gabriel Daza was the chairman of Illumination Committee for the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress.

In 1945, Gabriel Daza worked with the United States Army Signal Corps to survey the extent of the destruction of PLDT's telephone communications infrastructure in Manila.

Gabriel Daza reported that three of PLDT's central exchanges in Santa Cruz, Malate, and Pasay were destroyed by the Japanese.

In June 1947, the Electrical Engineering Law, Republic Act 184, was passed in the Congress of the Philippines and Gabriel Daza was appointed as the chairman of the Board of Electrical Engineering Examiners that Article 1 Section 2 of the Act established.

From 1946 to 1951, Gabriel Daza was the Assistant Chief Examiner and engineering consultant for the US-Philippine War Damage Commission.

In 1961, Gabriel Daza retired as Vice-President and Treasurer of PLDT.

In 1928, Gabriel Daza registered to be a member of the Cebu Council, Boy Scouts of America.

In 1949, after Camus' passing, Vargas became President and worked with Gabriel Daza to establish firm financial foundations for the BSP through lobbying.

Gabriel Daza gave the BSP Board three choices: the Bordner School, the City Court site adjacent to Manila City Hall, and the US Army Hospital site which was a Quonset hut.

Gabriel Daza hired an agriculturist to not only support training and camping but to plant bananas and set up a piggery.

In 1920, Daza was superintendent and special representative of the US House of Representatives Philippine Resident Commissioner Jaime C de Veyra for the Philippines' participation in the Missouri School of Journalism's Journalism Week.

In 1946, as Vice-President and Managing Director of Rehabilitarion of the Manila Hotel, Gabriel Daza was sent to the United States for procurement.

Gabriel Daza spent two months in Los Angeles, with around a $100,000 budget, buying and ordering furniture and utilities for the rehabilitation of the Manila Hotel.

Gabriel Daza was the chairman of Illumination Committee for the 33rd IEC.

In 1938, Gabriel Daza was a Director of the Philippine Wax Products Co.

In 1939, Gabriel Daza was the Directorate of the Ateneo Alumni Association, Directorate of Catholic Action, Reserve Officer in the Signal Corps of the Philippine Army, a member in the Knights of Rizal and Knights of Columbus, and assisted with the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes and Philippine Exposition.

In 1946, Gabriel Daza was a Director of the Philippine Trust Company.

In 1951, Gabriel Daza was the Assistant-Treasurer of the Philippine National Red Cross.

From 1955 to 1956, Gabriel Daza was a member of the Executive Committee of the Second National Eucharistic Congress of the Philippines which was held in 1956, in Manila, from 28 November to 2 December.

In 1965, Gabriel Daza was a member of the Executive Board for the United Nations Association of the Philippines.

Gabriel Daza participated in the First Asian Conference on Industrialization held during the period 6 to 20 December 1965 at Manila.

Gabriel Daza attended as a member of the World Federation of United Nations Associations observer delegation.

Gabriel Daza died in Quezon City, Philippines on May 18,1994, at the age of 98.

Gabriel Daza married Angeles Rosales Ortega on July 8,1922, in Calbayog, Samar.