BUSTAMANTE 



ANTONIO SANCHEZ DE 

 BUSTAMANTE 



Lawyer; professor; pub- 

 licist; statesman; orator. 



Dr. Bustahante's life possesses that 

 unity and continuity which belongs pecu- 

 liarly to one whose days are spent in the 

 city of his birth, and where his family has 

 lived before him. Antonio Sanchez de 

 Bustamante was born in Havana on the 

 thirteenth of April, 1865, son of another 

 Dr. Bustamante, who was Professor and 

 Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the 

 University of Havana. The boy began 

 his studies in the famous Colegio of Belen 

 where he completed the course for the 

 Bachelor's degree, going thence to Spain, 

 as was long the custom with Cuban youth, 

 to begin his legal studies at the Central 

 University of Madrid, but returning to the 

 University of Havana to complete his 



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