Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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THOMAS LORENZO DUQUE, Los Angeles
 
Born in province of Havana, Cuba, Sept. 5. 1853. Educated in Public schools and 
College of Monserrate, Havana, and Friends' Central School, Philadelphia 
(1865-9). In Sept., 1869, joined an unsuccessful Cuban expedition under General 
Goicouria; spent several months of 1871 with his brother in Jamaica; then Panama 
Railroad clerk until 1878; purser on Pacific Mail steamers between Panama and 
San Francisco until 1884; returned to Havana in 1885, married in 1886, and in 
1888 (Apr. 25th) came to Los Angeles; father of nine children. Prominent in 
banking; has served as Pres. of Security Savings Bank and Main Street Savings 
Bank (1895-1905); leading member Los Angeles and San Diego Chambers of Commerce; 
Pres. and Mangr. San Felipe Land & Water Co. and Dir. Southern Trust & Savings 
Bank. For some years Consular representative of Ecuador, Honduras and Cuba.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.59