MENOCAL 



MARIO G. MENOCAL 



Engineer, soldier, man 

 of affairs, third President 

 of the Republic of Cuba. 



Like many of his compatriots of recent 

 times President Menocal has spent much 

 of his life away from his own country. His 

 boyhood was passed largely in Mexico and 

 his youth in the United States where he 

 was educated. 



Menocal was born in Hanabana, Prov- 

 ince of Matanzas, on the seventeenth of 

 December, 1866, the son of Don Gabriel 

 G. Menocal, an experienced and skillful 

 sugar planter who, when his son Mario 

 was about two years old, had to flee from 

 Cuba in consequence of his revolutionary 

 activities. He went first to the United 

 States and thence to Mexico where he 

 settled down as a sugar planter at San 



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