Washington S. Valentine

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Washington S. Valentine ( 1844 - March 16, 1920 in Staten Island ) was an American entrepreneur in Honduras .

Life

He married Bertha A. Valentine. Their children were Edna, Juanita, Paula and Fred.

Washington S. Valentine was a member of Kane Lodge No. 454

The government of Honduras under Marco Aurelio Soto offered companies that invested the San Juancinto mine a 20-year exemption from all taxes. This commitment was attractive to Washington S. Valentin and he founded the New York & Honduras Rosario Mining Company with other New York investors

Washington S. Valentine was the majority owner of the New York & Honduras Rosario Mining Co.

From 1892 to 1912, Washington S. Valentine held the operating license of the Ferrocarril Interocéanico in the Departamento de Cortés in Honduras.

In 1892 the Honduras Syndicate was founded.

Washington S. Valentine founded the first private bank in Honduras, the Banco de Honduras , located in Plaza Morazán in Tegucigalpa.

In 1908 Washington S. Valentine was in Managua, negotiating with José Santos Zelaya over an interoceanic channel.

In October 1911, Manuel Bonilla became president of Honduras for the second time, he gave Sam Zemurray three railroad concessions, one port concession and ten thousand acres, and he canceled a major railroad concession which was granted to Washington S. Valentine.

On November 27, 1913, José Santos Zelaya was arrested at Washington S. Valentine, at 645 West End Avenue.

In 1915, Washington S. Valentine was part of the consortium that wanted to secure an oil prospecting concession in the Talamanca region through useful expenditures in Costa Rica. The corresponding Contrato Pinto-Greulich had passed parliament. President Alfredo González Flores put veto one.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Mahoney, The legacies of liberalism: path dependence and political regimes in Central America , JHU Press, 2001, 396 pp. 173
  2. ↑ Darío A Euraque, Marcela Carías, El capitalismo de San Pedro Sula y la historia política hondureña: (1870-1972) , Guaymuras, 2001, p. 35
  3. ↑ Juan E. Paredes, The Morgan-Honduras Loan, second part, The external dept of Honduras , New Orleans, The L. Graham Co., Ltd., Printed 1912
  4. ^ New York Times , Nov. 28, 1913, ZELAYA'S ARREST BRINGS A PROTEST night in the home of his friend, Washington S. Valentine, at 645 West End Avenue

References

  1. ↑ en: Rosario Mining Company
personal data
SURNAME Valentine, Washington S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rey de Honduras
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur in Honduras
DATE OF BIRTH 1844
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1920
Place of death Staten Island