V I L L O L DO 



JULIO VILLOLDO 



A uthor; editor. 



Julio Villoldo y Bertran was born in 

 Havana on the eleventh of October, 1881, 

 and obtained his early education partly in 

 Cuba, and partly in the United States 

 where he spent a portion of his youth. On 

 returning to Cuba he entered the Univer- 

 sity of Havana to pursue the career of the 

 law and won the degree of Doctor of Civil 

 Law in 1907. But the call of journalism 

 was stronger than that of the law and he 

 devoted himself to writing. He became 

 one of the editors of La Discusion, in which 

 he established and, with the collaboration 

 of associates, maintained for several years 

 a special section called Ornato Publico 

 dedicated to the embellishment and adorn- 

 ment of the city. 



In 191 2 he was made a member of the 



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