CARRICARTE 



ARTURO R. DE CARRICARTE Y DE 



ARMAS 



Editor; author; official. 



ARTURO R. DE CARRICARTE Y DE ARMAS 



was born on the sixth of November, 1880, 

 in Havana and receivecHiis early education 

 at home under the instruction of a noted 

 teacher and writer, Doctor Esteban Borrero 

 Echevarria. In 1894 he gained the degree 

 of Bachelor of Science and Letters and 

 thereafter pursued for three years the 

 Medical course. In 1900 he won the rank 

 of Professor in competitive examination, 

 being one of eleven successful out of a 

 total number of a hundred and five com- 

 petitors. 



In 1902 he resigned his professorship and 

 went to Mexico where he engaged in liter- 

 ary work which occupied him either in 

 Cuba or in Mexico until 1909 when he 



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