Founding member of the Academy of the History of Cuba
He was born in Cifuentes (Santa Clara).
He was translator of the Argentine Legation in Washington (1865-67) and editor of La Voz de América, which was published in New York during that same period.
He obtained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the war of 1868, during which he was Assistant Secretary to Major General Ignacio Agramonte (1872-73), to General Máximo Gómez (1873-75) and Secretary of Foreign Relations and Treasury in 1877.
He has been Chief of the Treasury Secretary's Office (1902-05), Paymaster of the Customs House of Havana (1905-07) and second Chief of the National Archives (1907-10).
He has collaborated and collaborates in various publications, and is author of the following works:
Convenio del Zanjón - Carta á J. M. Macías (New York, 1878);
A pie y descalzo - De Trinidad á Cuba, 1870-71 (Habana, 1890)
Verdad sin ira (Habana, 1908).
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