Carlos Cabrera y MartínezEduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 166.Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia. Puerto Rico Encyclopedia. Fundación Puertorriqueña para las Humanidades. 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2009. () was interim Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 November 1866Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 278. to 19 December 1866.Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 278. He was interim mayor, together with Francisco Romero, and both performed as interim corregidors until Colonel Enrique O'Neil became the appointed corregidor on 20 December 1866 for the remainder of that year and into 1867.
Background As a young man, Cabrera y Martínez liked to write poems. As an adult, he was a sugar cane hacendado farmer and was several times appointed a Diputado Provincial (Provincial Delegate) as well as other prominent positions in the Ponce society.Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 166.
Cabrera y Martinez had his house at the northeast corner of Calle Cristina and Calle Marina, across from Plaza Las Delicias. His house had belonged to José Ortiz de la Renta.Mariano Vidal Armstrong. Ponce: Notas para Su Historia. p. 12. During the planning years for the construction of the Asilo de Damas de Ponce (Ponce Women's Shelter), founded on 9 April 1863, Cabrera Martínez lent his house for the shelter-to-be board of directors to meet and perform all the necessary planning and organizing for the construction and opening of the shelter. During these meetings they also created the Shelter Foundation's by-laws, which was later approved by the Spanish Crown on 11 November 1863.Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 109. He was also an active member of the Casino de Ponce, having lent his spacious home as a headquarters for the casino in July 1876, when the society has 105 member.Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 119.
Mayoral term Cabrera y Martínez is known to have been of liberal ideas and opinions.Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 166. During his mayoral term, a conference was convened in Madrid by order of the Spanish Overseas Minister, named Antonio Canovanas del Castillo,Bolivar Pagan. Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños (1898-1956). San Juan, Puerto Rico: Litografía Real Hermanos, Inc. 1959. Tomo I. page 11. to discuss matters related to social, political, and economic issues.The Cuban Problem. Eugenio María de Hostos Community College. 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2019.Eduardo Neuman Gandia. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 48. A representative from the ayuntamiento was to attend, and Ponce elected Luis Antonio Becerra, who didn't attend for political reasons related to slavery n Puerto Rico.Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 266.
See also
List of Puerto Ricans List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Notes
References
Further reading Ramon Marin. Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce. Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico. 1994.
External links Guardia Civil española (c. 1898) (Includes military ranks in 1880s Spanish Empire.)