Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Duque, Thomas Lorenzo 
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Author: Robert J. Burdette (1910)

THOMAS LORENZO DUQUE, LOS ANGELES 
Born in province of Havana, Cuba, Sept. 5, 1853. Educated in public schools and
College of Monserrate, Havana, and Friends Central School, Philadelphia
(1865-9). In Sept., 1869, joined an unsuccessful Cuban expedition under General
Goicouria; spent several months of 1871 with his brother in Jamaica; then Panama
Railroad clerk until 1878; purser on Pacific Mail steamers between Panama and
San Francisco until 1884; returned to Havana in 1885, married in 1886, and in
1888 (Apr. 25th) came to Los Angeles; father of nine children. Prominent in
banking; has served as Pres. of Security Savings Bank and Main Street Savings
Bank (1895-1905); leading member Los Angeles and San Diego Chambers of Commerce;
Pres. and Mangr. San Felipe Land & Water Co. and Dir. Southern Trust & Savings
Bank. For some years Consular representative of Ecuador, Honduras and Cuba.


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THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO          LOS ANGELES          NEW YORK
1910


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