H E VI A 



AURELIO HEVIA 



Lawyer; soldier; publicist; 

 administrator; Secretary of 

 Government (i. e., Army, 

 Navy, Railways and Police) 

 in the Republic of Cuba. 



Aurelio Hevia y Alcaide was born in 

 Havana on the twenty-fifth of October, 

 1866, and after a preliminary course of 

 study entered the law office of Sefior 

 Antonio Govin, where he was introduced 

 to the practice of the law. 



When the Revolution broke out in 1895 

 Dr. Hevia enlisted in the army where he 

 won his way upward step by step to the 

 rank of Colonel. In 1898 he was a mem- 

 ber of the Assembly of Santa Cruz del Sur 

 by which he was designated a member of 

 the commission which visited the United 

 States to treat with President McKinley 

 in regard to the claims of the Cuban Army 



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