BETA N COURT 



PEDRO E. BETANCOURT 



Soldier; official, 



Pedro E. Betancourt y Dovalos was 

 born in 1858 and baptized in Seiba Mocha, 

 Province of Matanzas. Having chosen 

 Medicine for his profession he studied 

 first in Philadelphia and later in Madrid 

 where he graduated in 188 1. He returned 

 to Matanzas to practice his profession, but 

 when the War of Independence broke out 

 in 1895 he was one of the first to take part 

 in it. As President of the Revolutionary 

 Club of the Western part of the Island he 

 was charged with the selection and organi- 

 zation of the revolutionary forces of the 

 Province of Matanzas and was one of the 

 members of the ill-fated force that took 

 up arms in Matanzas on the twenty-fourth 

 of February, 1895. When this force was 

 defeated and scattered Betancourt was 



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