CHACON 



JOSE MARIA CHACON Y CALVO 

 Scholar; author; diplomat. 



Jose Maria Chacon y Calvo was born 

 in Santa Maria del Rosario, Province of 

 Havana, on the twenty-seventh of October, 

 1893, and was educated in Havana where 

 he took his early studies in the school of 

 the Jesuits Belen, continued in the In- 

 stitute, where he completed the courses 

 for the Bachelor's degree and entered the 

 University where he obtained the two 

 degrees of Doctor in Civil Law, in 19 13, 

 and Doctor of Philosophy and Letters in 



1915- 



His youthful inclination was toward 



letters and he began early to contribute 

 to the magazines in Havana the Figaro, 

 Cuba Contempordnea, and the Magazine 

 of the Faculty of Letters and Sciences. In 

 1 91 6 he organized, on the occasion of the 



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