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Manuel A. Alonso

Died in 1889

Manuel A. Alonso was born on 6 October 1822 in San Juan, the son of a soldier of Galician origin. He left for Barcelona in 1842, studied philosophy and then medicine there, which he completed in 1848, and returned the following year to practise in Caguas. He lived in Spain again from 1858 to 1861 and from 1866 to 1871, edited the liberal and reformist newspaper El Agente and, from 1871, ran a charitable home. He died in San Juan on 4 November 1889.

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