ZE Q U E I RA 



SERGIO CUEVAS ZEQUEIRA 



Teacher; orator; publicist. 



Sergio Cuevas Zequeira was born on 

 the thirty-first of January, 1863, in the city 

 of San Juan de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico) , 

 and there, in the Colegio of the Society of 

 Jesus, he obtained his early education and 

 received the Bachelor's degree. He then 

 devoted himself to the teaching profession 

 and by competitive examination gained a 

 position in the city schools of Ponce (Puerto 

 Rico). In 1887 the Spanish Governor 

 General, D. Romualdo Palacios, threatened 

 him with deprivation of office unless he 

 would renounce his Autonomist opinions. 

 Thereupon Cuevas Zequeira resigned his 

 post, left Ponce and went to Mayagiiez 

 where the Society for the Propagation of 

 the Faith entrusted him with the charge 

 of El Liceo, a school of primary and second- 



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