DUANY 



DEMETRIO CASTILLO DUANY 



Soldier; man of affairs; 

 administrator. 



Demetrio Castillo Duany was born 

 in Santiago de Cuba on the seventeenth 

 of November, 1856, into one of the leading 

 families of the eastern region of Cuba and 

 went for education to France. After spend- 

 ing some years at the Lycee of Bordeaux 

 he went on to the United States where he 

 gave himself to the study of English and 

 entered an established business house. 

 In 1878, at the age of twenty-two, he re- 

 turned to Santiago de Cuba to take charge 

 of the interests of his mother. A year later 

 the outbreak of the "little war" obliged 

 him to emigrate to the United States where 

 he remained until 1885. 



The outbreak of the War of Indepen- 

 dence in 1895 found him ready for the final 



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