D E ROJAS 



ALBERTO DE ROJAS Y CRUZAT 



Business man; patriot; 

 official. 



Alberto de Rojas y Cruzat was born 

 in Cardenas, Cuba, on the second of April, 

 1868. He fulfilled the requirements for 

 the degree of Bachelor at the Colegio "La 

 Gran Antilla" in Havana, then entered 

 the law department of the University in 

 that city where he remained until, at the 

 end of the third year, he was called to take 

 charge of his father's sugar plantation near 

 his native town. 



Throughout the War for Cuban Inde- 

 pendence he was representative of the 

 Revolutionaries in Cardenas, where he was 

 arrested and imprisoned and his sugar 

 properties destroyed. Shortly after General 

 Blanco succeeded Weyler, Rojas was freed. 



During the American Intervention he 

 belonged to the City Council of Cardenas 



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