rafaelreyes

Rafael Reyes Prieto (December 5, 1849, Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá, Colombia – February 18, 1921, Bogotá) was commander in chief of the Colombian National Army and President of Colombia (1904-1909). In his years as president he received money from the United States as part of the indemnity for Panama. This brought years of progress to Colombia but clearly the North American country got more profit from the Panama Canal. After being president Reyes was exiled from Colombia, after suffering several attempts to kill him. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Reyes James Martin Eder (June 24, 1838 – December 26, 1921), known in Colombia as Santiago Martín Eder Kaiser, or simply don Santiago Eder, is considered the pioneer of the sugar industry in Colombia, and is widely recognized as one of Colombia's leading 19th century industrial pioneers. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_Eder

I would love to have more information about Mme. De Valenzuela if there is any.

he looks a good deal like this man: filipinomasons.blogspot.com/2007/08/wb-jose-reyes-pm-maso... Jose A Reyes, maybe?

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Rafael Reyes Prieto (December 5, 1849, Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá, Colombia – February 18, 1921, Bogotá) was commander in chief of the Colombian National Army and President of Colombia (1904-1909).. On August 3, 1913 he wrote an article in the New York Times: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E7DC113BE6... The article has an engraving of him and it matches. I will start a biography in Wikipedia in a bit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Reyes

There are other negatives in the Bain collection of this person and they are labeled R. Reyes, so it appears that we have a match. Thanks for helping to clear this up. We'll add the fuller name to the source catalog and correct the erroneous title.