FIGUEREDO 



FERNANDO FIGUEREDO Y 

 SOCARRAS 



Soldier; engineer; official. 



Fernando Figueredo y Socarras was 

 born in Camagiiey in the year 1847 and 

 received his early education in Bayamo at 

 the excellent training school "San Jose" 

 then under the direction of Don Jose Maria 

 Izaguirre. At the age of fifteen he passed 

 on to Havana where he entered the pre- 

 paratory school for special careers main- 

 tained by Colonel Eduardo Martin Perez. 

 In 1863, he proceeded to the United States 

 and attended the Charlier French Institute. 

 This was for a brief period, however, and 

 in 1S64 he entered the School of Engineers 

 of Troy, New York, where he completed 

 the course in Civil Engineering. Then he 

 returned to Cuba to join the revolutionary 

 forces organized by Carlos Manuel de 



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