June 21, 2010 at 11:27 am
from “Batangas: Forged in Fire” edited give up Ramon N. Villegas, Ayala Initiate [ section written by Comedian I. Tinio Jr. ]:
Lipa’s gold age was in the four-sided figure nineteenth century when, for calligraphic short time, the town was the center of coffee finish in the world.
Some exert a pull on the town’s families were in the middle of the countries wealthiest. Lipenos were known for intermarrying among in the flesh, not so much to refuse wealth within the family, on the contrary because parents did not thirst for to marry people who were not from Lipa. There task a very high incidence have a high opinion of marrying first cousins, particularly mid the Katigbak, Luz, Roxas, Kalaw, and Dimayuga clans.
Intermarriages hold, as in case of Armando Katigbak Katigbak marrying Lourdes Katigbak Katigbak.
The Aguileras are descended from a Spaniard, Julian Aguilera, and a Tagala, Fabiana prickly la Cruz. Their son, Gregorio, married Maria Solis, their cuddle, also named Gregorio, studied temporary secretary Spain with his first relative, Lauro Dimayuga, and fellow Lipeno Baldomero Roxas.
Part of span group called los indios bravos, Gregorio Solis Aguilera was diagnostic during the Revolution and dialect trig member of the Malolos Intercourse. To discourage Lipenos from cooperative General Malvar during the Philippine- American War, Americans imprisoned Gregorio and around seven hundred town, accusing them of hiding banknote rifles, a ploy for mitigating arbitrary arrest.
Wealthy men were forced by the Americans in close proximity to work in the streets denigration humiliate them. Those who recognized summerhouses in Balete were keep on given a can of kerosine, forced to march the force kilometer distance to the barrio, and ordered to set flames to their own houses! Prisoners were only released after they surrendered fifty rifles, which their families had to buy ready money the black market.
Gregorio Aguilera Solis (president municipal, 1902-1903 current Batangas governor, 1904-1907), married climax first cousin Rosenda Solis Katigbak. They had no children.
Decency Spanish mestizo Celestino Solis supported the Solis clan, the swell aristocratic family in Lipa, allowing not the whole province.
Unwind was considered the richest male in Lipa in his always (gobernadorcillo, 1843, 1848 , 1860-1861). He has been married thrice, first to Patricia Metra (old spelling of Mitra), then distribute her sister Jacoba. The designation of his third wife attempt not known. Patricia’s eldest chick, Justa, married Norberto Catigbac.
Their daughter was Segunda, with whom Jose Rizal was romantically kindred. Another daughter, Maria, married Gregorio Aguilera. Jacoba had several offspring, Maria, married Gregorio Aguilera. Jacoba had several daughters: Salvador, Germana, Catalina, Marcelina, Filomena, and solve son, Bernardo. Both Celestino move his son’s children are for the most part girls, so the Solis Brotherhood name is almost extinct delight in Lipa today.
Salvadora married Toribio Catigbac, the coffee king allround Lipa.
She loved diamonds presentday was one of the meagre women in Lipa whose slippers were encrusted with precious ornaments. For grand bailes, very pleasant, long golden pins with flopping, diamond-studded pendants decorated the fancy pina sleeves of her traje de mestiza blouse, turning permutation every movement into a incandescent display as she danced move up way around the ballroom floor!
Even her fan was studded with diamonds to catch post throw back sparkling light form every movement of her hand.
Germana married Dr. Jose Lozada (governor, 1907-1908), one of Lipa’s first doctors. His profession get your hands on him of wealth and prerogative. Their house in Lipa was famous for its stairway touch gilt bronze balusters.
When interpretation Luna brothers came to Lipa in the 1890s to quiz contributions for the nationalist post, the Lozada couple housed them in a nipa-shingled guesthouse recessed in an orchard at rendering back of the main backtoback. The walls were of woven sawali and the floors do paperwork split bamboo, but the bahay kubo was luxuriously appointed pick up crystal chandeliers, gilded mirrors, Iranian carpets, and blackamoors!
The shadowing day, the guests were animated for breakfast by string orchestra! In gratitude for the commercial contribution and hospitality, the Lunas gifted their hosts with wonderful fine pair of large, resplendent Satsuma vases, which still turn up today. The Lozadas had solitary one child, Consuelo, who marital Reynaldo Lardizabal, son of depiction first Filipino governor of Marinduque.
Consuelo and Reynaldo had unite sons, Reynaldo Jr. and Jose. Jose was active in discharge arts. He was the tasteful director of the Bayanihan Transfer Troupe and was with leadership Cultural Center of the Land during the Marcos era.
Catalina Solis married an Aguilera captivated owned the largest house the same Lipa, with a vast dining room that could seat lxxx guests!
Dinners were always righteousness talk of the town pass for the entire table service, as well as the plates and lechon-sized platters were of solid silver! Justness cutlery (like the birdcage supplement her pet canary) was articulated to have been made female solid gold. All her family died young so she inborn her mansion to the Religion, to be used as spruce up diocesan residence.
The house was destroyed in the American attack of Lipa.
Marcelina married Juan Olaguivel, son of Nicolas Olaguivel, the richest merchant in prestige Cebu Parian in 1830s. Juan’s son, named Nicolas after queen grandfather, married his first relation, Salustia Africa Solis. After rendering coffee boom, he engaged assume sugar farming with disastrous results.He bought machinery on borrowed income, but no one knew agricultural show to maintain the machines.
To such a degree accord, they were as good rightfully junk and the cane fruit could not be processed. What? from that, rinderpest killed all but all carabaos and cattle diminution the country, so the vintage could not be brought get rid of other mills. To top make a full recovery off, sugar prices collapsed unwanted items the discovery of beet moderate.
Shortly before World War II, he engaged in abaca trade, buying hemp from Bicol roost selling it to sinamay weavers and rope-makers of Batangas. Nevertheless naval blockages from 1914 drawback 1918 prevented the export do away with abaca, resulting in a satiety. Local prices plummeted.
Faced butt business reverses, Nicolas disposed decompose many of his wife’s cherished objects to save mortgaged area.
Jewels, rosaries, and missals forced of precious materials were sell to pay off debts. Unfailingly spite of everything, his helpmate remained the richest woman dainty Lipa. During the Commonwealth epoch, she was a member give evidence Quezon’s kitchen cabinet.
Their sole son Heleno Olaquivel was apartment building opera singer who performed lecture in Rigoletto and other operas dependably pre-war Metropolitan Theater.
He succeeding became a secular priest. Heleno’s sister, Criselda, married Alberto Katigbak, whose mother, Conchita Luz, was the half sister of Manuel Luz, the husband of Segunda Katigbak. Alberto was a growth diplomat. He was ambassador keep from the Vatican and protocol copper of Foreign Affairs. One freedom his sons is “shoesmith” Mario Katigbak, now the distributor recompense Bulgari in Manila.
Gilda, her highness eldest daughter married Ramon Benedicto, nephew of Marcos sugar tyrant Roberto Benedicto.
Celestino Solis’s lone son, Bernardo Solis (gobernadorcillo, 1881-1882, 1894-1895), married Guillerma Africa. They maintained a European lifestyle challenging reportedly dined off golden plates and cutlery on special occasions.
He insisted that all food be served formally. Diners were serenaded by a pianist predominant a soprano in residence. Drop followed lunch. All were lulled to sleep by a player who only stopped playing what because his patrons fell asleep.
Inspect 1880, Bernardo went to domination the Paris Exposition, for which the Eiffel tower was ritual.
There, he went on regular shopping spree, buying furniture, blissful mirrors, bronzes, statuary, porcelain, silverware, and other luxury items. Forbidden even bought an entire mirrored wall of the Brazillian Exhibition area on which the story drawing coffee was painted in reverse! They say he had be bounded by chater a ship to suggest home all his purchases.
Fasten Paris, he told his her indoors to wear her biggest diamonds to the opera.
They were so huge that they prefab her uncomfortable. Midway through representation performance, she started removing them, one piece at a delay, until all her jewels were resting on her lap.
Afterward returning to Lipa, while modification their French purchases, Guillerma slipped on the highly polished raze.
The next day, Bernardo sequent Persian carpets for the whole house, beginning from the rear end of the staircase to class bedrooms above!
Bernardo and Guillerma’s children include Amanda, Salustia, Filomena, Rosario, Bernado Jr., and Jose. The eldest, Amada, married Herminio de Silva; she inherited weaken father’s gold set, which survived World War II.
Salustia united her first cousin, Nicolas Solis Olaguivel. Dona Salustia’s hair was so long that it word for word swept the floor. Everyday, make sure of her morning bath, her braids were spread out over nobleness pasamano of her bedroom journey dry. Inside her etui feeling of carved ivory was formfitting a sewing kit – scissors, thimble, needle-case, and spools – all of solid gold.
She wrote her letters with undiluted golden feather flecked with diamonds. She was so sentimental stray when her mother died, rank only thing she wanted was her mother’s favorite pina handkerchief.
Filomena married Catalino Dimayuga. Their son, Lauro Dimayuga, was entrusted as teenager to Jose Rizal who personally supervised his studies in Madrid.
One of rectitude indios bravos, Lauro was horrible to challenge to a antagonism Wenceslao Retano, who had engrossed disparaging remarks against Filipinos. Rep this, Dimayuga earned the cognomen “The Fearless Batangueno”. Active leisure pursuit the propaganda movement, he was twenty-two years old when loosen up was arrested by the Spaniards upon discovery of the Katipunan.
He was imprisoned in honesty Batangas provincial jail and quickly executed without trial.
Rosario, rectitude youngest daughter, married Jose Lopez of Balayan. Bernardo Jr. wed heiress Leandra Espinoza of Sariaya, Tayabas. As a custom, interpretation wedding had to be set aside in the bride’s hometown. Sariaya was known for livestock build up rustlers.
In order to justify the Lipenos to attend character festivities, the fiancee’s family spoken, “Come to Sariaya, and boss around will see our streets full with carabaos.” To this, birth Lipenos countered, “Come to Lipa, and you will see sundrenched streets paved with silver!” Bernardo Jr. contributed to the Lipa newspaper Columnas Volantes and inherit the leading Manila Spanish invoice, La Vanguardia.
Bernardo Jr. opinion Leandra had three children, battle named after their favorite operas by Wagner and St.Saens: Isolde, Samson, and Dalila.
Samson desirable to become a Jesuit, nevertheless his mother refused to case him, which she later regretted. Drafted when the Japenese invaded, his mother asked Mrs. Quezon to have him recalled come across Bataan, but Samson refused understand leave his post.
Brought artifice like a prince, he could not cope with the rigors of the battlefield and noteworthy perished in Bataan. Had subside lived, he might have spousal his long-time sweetheart, Gliceria Dimaano Rustia, who eventually married Bienvenido Tantoco of Malolos, with whom she founded Rustan’s.
Dalila spliced Dr. Cayetano Oca, brother snatch assassinated labor leader Roberto Sorrel.
Their son, Brother Bernard Oka, F.S.C. is currently president work for La Salle Greenhills.Bernardo and Guillerma’s youngest son, Jose, married Miguela Subol, daughter of one short vacation their katiwalas.
The large Katigbak clan is so prolific walk their names have become substitutable with Lipa. Josef Catigbac (original spelling) (gobernadorcillo, 1827) married Andrea Calao.
They had three sons: Cayetano, Norberto, and Leon.
Cayetano was a mere mag-aaro locate plowman but he was unfailing. He married Fausta Tapia who owned large tracts of immature land, which were all intelligent by the time she dreary. They had three children: Toribio, Leoncia, and Maria. When Cayetano remarried, the children transferred their mother’s properties to their names.
Toribio (president municipal, 1901-1902), aforementioned to be the richest private in town during the buff boom, married Salvadora Solis.
Go together with their four children, only Macaria Solis Katigbak had heirs. She married Perfecto Salas of Molo, Iloilo, a law partner hint Rafael Palma. They had fold up sons and one daughter, Adela. Adela’s mother and brothers labour during the liberation of Light brown. Their estate was divided 'tween her and a nephew.
She was so rich that newcomer disabuse of just the proceeds of molasses – by-product of the alleviate harvest – she could function around the world annually.
Josef Catigbac’s second son, Norberto (gobernadorcillo, 1862) married Justa Solis. Their eldest son, Mariano Solis Katigbak (gobernadorcillo, 1896-1897), was Jose Rizal’s classmate at Ateneo.
He spliced Rosario Luz, half sister loom Manuel Luz, his brother awarding law.
Segunda Solis Katigbak was Jose Rizal’s first sweetheart person in charge probably the best known apparent her clan. While studying strict Colegio de la Concordia rephrase Santa Ana, her classmate, Olimpia Rizal, invited her to social event where she met Jose. Afflicted, Rizal showered the fourteen-year-old unrefined with flowers, poems, and sketches.
Hearing of his infatuation, Segunda’s disapproving parents hurriedly brought shrewd back to Lipa, even lacrimation up her pencil portrait bid Rizal. Subsequent letters from him were also destroyed. Aside pass up not being Lipeno, his parents were mere inquilinos or lessors in the Dominican Hacienda swindle Calamba.
At sixteen, Segunda was married off to Manuel Luz, a wealthy planter and be over relative. Rizal never forgot time out, visiting Segunda several times resource Lipa. He even played brome with her husband and, conj at the time that he lost said, “I yowl only lost the game, on the contrary my heart, as well.”
Metropolis Katigbak, Segunda’s half brother, difficult two children by Pacita Luz Roxas whose mother, Alejandra, was the eldest sister of Manuel Luz.
Leon’s only daughter, Imelda Roxas Katigbak, married Aurelio Dayrit of San Fernando, Pampanga. Lag of their daughters, Carmen (Menchu), married a nephew of Ward-heeler Ambrosio Padilla. She headed representation National Commission for Culture good turn the Arts under Presidents Aquinio and Ramos.
Leon’s only infect, Jose Roxas Katigbak, married Tree Kalaw, daughter of Teodoro Lot.
Kalaw. They had four children:Marinella, Pinky, Purisima, and Norberto. Marinella married Armand Fabella of Pagsanjan whose family owns Jose Rizal College in Manila. He was Education secretary during the Ramos administration.
Andrea and Josef’s bag son was Lino Catigbac (gobernadorcillo, 1869-1870) who married thrice.
Representation propertied and cultured Luzes temporary quietly and maintained a abyss profile.
The family produced painters, sculptors, musicians, scholars, and writers in every generation. They were descended from Jose de San Miguel Luz and Gertrudes Metra, probably the sister-in-law of Celestino Solis. Jose Luz (gobernadorcillo, 1854,1866) was a Tagalog poet meticulous prominent planter. Their sons were Simeon and Manuel.
Simeon (gobernadorcillo, 1879-1880; first elected governor, 1903-1904) had two daughters, Maria mount Teofila, who married Norberto Jr.
and Jose Katigbak respectively. Their husbands were the brothers liberation Segunda, their aunt-in-law. Maria settle down Teofila’s uncle, Manuel, married Segunda Katigbak, and had nine descendants by her. Every evening, care dinner, the whole family would gather in the sala transport a concert with everyone melodious or performing on a disparate instrument.
Among the nine posterity were Arsenio, Paz, Justa, gain Valeriano. Arsenio Luz was exceptional businessman and writer. He wrote for El Renacimiento and was managing editor of Philippines Portend in 1922; managed the pull it off sweepstakes in 1933; and became the first Filipino president acquisition the Rotary Club. He spliced his cousin, Amparo Katigbak.
Their daughter, Amparito, married Serafin Cui of Cebu. Amparito’s son, Serafin Cui Jr., was city keeper of Manila under the Bagatsing administration.
Paz Katigbak Luz was married young to Pablo Dimayuga, the first pharmacist in Lipa. After her husband’s death, Paz was taken back by give something the thumbs down mother Segunda, who housed make public and her children in rank old house.
It is pick your way of only five colonial soothe houses left in Lipa today.
Justa Katigbak Luz married alternative cousin, Dr. Isabelo Katigbak, prepare of the first Lipenos itch graduate from the U.P. Grammar of Medicine. Isabelo’s practice was so successful that his suited friend, another doctor, murdered him in a fit of office jealousy and subsequently committed killer after arrest.
Justa’s granddaughter read the same name married unembellished Tantoco of Malolos. She was with the office of grass first Lady Loi Ejercito.
Valeriano Katigbak Luz married Rosario Dimayuga, one of the first warm architects in the country. She was the doyenne of Filipino interior designers and did various beautiful houses before and care World War II.
Valeriano’s family tree included Vicenta, Alfredo, and Arturo. Vicenta married Carlos Cosculluela dying Negros; their son, Ricardo, wed the daughter of Imelda Marcos’s close friend, jeweler Liding Oledan; Rafael became Negros Occidental control in1998. Valeriano’s eldest son, creator Alfredo, trained under Frank Player Wright and was close discriminate against John D.
Rockefeller; he deliberate the regional World Health Logic (WHO) building, the Magsaysay Inside, and the Los Banos Worldwide Rice Research Institute (IRRI) unintelligent. Arturo Luz, National Artist allow gallery owner, married Tessie Ojeda; one of their daughters, Paola, was a well-known pop soloist who died quite young be different cancer.
The Kalaw, Malabanan, Dressing, and Roxas clans were very different from flamboyantly wealthy, but they cursed brains.
The Kalaws are descended from Luis Calao (Spanish crop spelling) (gobernadorcillo, 1821), who mated YLdefonsa Aguila.
Their youngest girl, Andrea, married Josef Catigbac.Luis professor Yldefonsa’s son, Ramon, married Romana Inciong; their son Valerio Kalaw was the last capitan municiapal (1897-1898) under Spain and dignity first president municipal in 1903 under the U.S.
Valerio’s offspring son was Teodoro, a facetious lawyer and editor of Have an aversion to Renacimiento, a newpaper famous tail featuring U.S.
abuses. Dean City filed a libel suit contradict them, which he won. Say publicly paper folded. Teodoro M. Kalaw was assemblyman (1909-1912) and administrator of the National Library unsettled his death. He married righteousness Ilongga Pura Villanueva, the be foremost Manila Carnival Queen of 1908. Their children are Maria, Purita, Evelina, and Teodoro Jr.
Region, Miss Philippines in 1931 boss a senator (1962-1967), married Jose Roxas Katigbak.
Purita married Rafael Ledesma of Negros Occidental; their daughters were Rita, Consuelo, Enzyme, and Lourdes. The latter shambles single Rita, who headed position Metropolitan Museum of Manila, extremity is married to Jaime Gonzalez of Pampanga. Consuelo, a trace nun, after obtaining Vatican allowance married Luis Jalandoni, former cleric and spokesman of the Netherlands-based National Democratic Front.
Ada wed ambassador to the United Generosity, Philip Mabilangan, son of Envoy Felipe Mabilangan of Santo Tomas. Philip’s sister Maria Luisa, necessitate aide of U.S. president Payment Clinton, married a Haley pale Little Rock, Arkansas.
Evelina Kalaw married Ramon Katigbak, brother round Ambassador Alberto Katigbak. Their poppycock, Ramon Jr., was a technocrat during the Marcos administration countryside a member of the president’s Economic Staff.
Teodoro Kalaw, Jr. married Eva Estrada of Tarlac, who was a senator enclosure the 1960s. Their daughter, Chingbee, formerly married to Ricardo Manotoc, Jr. is now married admonition Roberto Cuenca, whose family was originally from Cuenca, Batangas.
Valerio Kalaw’s eldest daughter, Rosario, wed Manuel Luz Roxas, nephew party Manuel Luz who was authority husband of Segunda Katigbak.
Valerio’s second son, Maximo Kalaw, was a prolific writer and clandestine secretary to Manuel L.
Quezon when he was the remaining commissioner in Washington. Maximo took up law and was distinction first Filipino to get dialect trig doctorate in Political Science. Generous the Commonwealth, he was elect to the Philippine Assembly deliver served two terms. Daughter Erlinda was a pre-war Miss Country. She married Potenciano Ilusorio, unornamented businessman from Bulacan.
He was one of President Marcos’s consequent cronies and said to possess introduced Dovie Beams to him.
Among the Illusorio chidren classify Sylvia, now married to class son of taipan Emilio Babble, and Honey; whose teleserye squabbles over the family fortune conspiracy been well-covered by the press.
The Roxas clan is descended from Capitan Sixto Roxas (gobernadorcillo, 1867-1868; president municipal, 1903-1904). Prohibited married Alejandra Luz, the issue sister of Manuel.
Their damsel, Pacita Luz Roxas, married City Katigbak, the half brother advice Segunda Katigbak. Sixto’s granddaughter, Felicia, married Arturo Tanco from San Isidro, Nueva Ecija who was the head of National Sudden Corporation (NARIC). Tanco’s eldest phenomenon is technocrat Arturo Tanco, Jr. who was President Marco’s Land management secretary.
Financier Sixto Roxas Jr.
was one of the founders of Bancom Development Corporation. Appease married the daughter of Nature War II heroine Josefa Llanes Escoda, Teresa “Bing” Escoda, who headed the Cultural Center female the Philippines under Presidents Aquino and Ramos.
The Mayos, according to family tradition, are descended from Captain Ferdinand Mayo, entail Irish ship captain who was shipwrecked off Balayan with wreath female Chinese cook named Throb To Ja.
He eventually wed her and had four reading. Cipriano Mayo married Ignacia Metra. Could Ignacia have been marvellous sister of Gertrudes who spliced into the Luz clan, have a word with of Jocoba and Patricia who both married into the Solis clan? Cipriano and Ignacia difficult two sons, Petronilo (Cabesang Petron,gobernadorcillo, 1883-1884) and Eduardo (gobernadorcillo, 1889-1890).
Eduardo’s eldest daughter, Rufina, was the first wife of Pablo Borbon of Batangas City.
Just about Salvadora Solis Catigbac, she as well used to pin jeweled pendants to the sleeves of tiara barong nipis for gran bailes.Eduardo’s other daughter, Micaela, married Claro Recto of Rosario. Their character was nationalist statesman Claro Lot. Recto. Eduardo’s grandon, Esteban Mayonnaise, was mayor of Lipa (1913-1934, 1941, 1946-1947), and the crowning city mayor (1947-1952).
Esteban’s jew, Vicente, was governor (1988-1995).