DE GONSALES 



AURELIA CASTILLO DE GONSALES 



Traveler; author. 



Aurelia Castillo, daughter of Pedro 

 Castillo y Betancourt and Maria Castillo y 

 Castillo, was born in the Province of Puerto 

 Principe (now Camaguey), Cuba, on the 

 twenty-seventh of January, 1842. Her 

 parents found it impossible to give her the 

 educational advantages they desired, and 

 after her tenth year her intellectual de- 

 velopment was left to the Fates which 

 supplied her with reading matter. 



In May, 1874, she was married to Fran- 

 cisco Gonsales del Hoyo, Major of In- 

 fantry in the Spanish Army. A year later 

 she accompanied her husband to Spain 

 when he was expelled from the Island by 

 the Spanish Brigadier Ampudia [because 

 of his vehement condemnation of the 

 execution of the Cuban patriot, Dr. An- 



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