JOSE G. VILLA 



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JOSE G. VILLA 



Writer; teacher. 



Jose G. Villa was born on the thirteenth 

 of January, 1850, in Matanzas and obtained 

 his education in his native place. He first 

 studied Pharmacy, later turned to tech- 

 nical and practical Electricity and at last 

 to teaching, in which he gained a place as 

 Professor of primary instruction and Eng- 

 lish in a mercantile Academy. 



Sr. Villa has written much both in prose 

 and verse for many periodicals, many of 

 his contributions appearing in the Havana 

 magazine Cuba y America. He has also 

 edited and published periodicals of his 

 own which have had more or less success, 

 for example, El Ramo de Acacia, a masonic 

 paper; El Pajaro Sirvidango, a furtive pa- 

 per issued during the period of freedom of 

 the press in 1869; El Consuelo de los Pobres, 



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