CHALONS 



JOAQUIN CHALONS 



Civil engineer. 



Joaquin Chalons was born in Santiago 

 de Cuba, on the twenty-fourth of August, 

 1864, and received his early education and 

 his Bachelor's degree in the Colegio "San- 

 tiago." In 1882 he entered the Academia 

 de Ingenieros at Guadalajara, Spain, where 

 five years of study brought him the title 

 Engineer. He devoted the next three 

 years to field work upon the Pyrenean 

 border, then returned to Cuba as Captain 

 of Engineers and was appointed subhead 

 of the engineering offices of the city of 

 Santiago. 



At the outbreak of the war for Cuban 

 Independence (1895) he returned to Spain 

 and took a position with the Southern 

 Railway lines of that country. 



When the war was over he returned to 



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