Juan Cortada y Quitana
Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office 1873 – 1874
Preceded by	Alejandro Albizu
Succeeded by	Rafael León y García
Profession	Politician

Juan Cortada y Quitanawas a Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1873 to 1874.

Cortada was an hacendado, a landowner who ran a sugar cane hacienda, a estate dedicated to the growing of the produce for sale to sugar cane mills for the production of cane sugar. The workers in such estates were almost always slaves. Thus it is likely that Cortada owned slaves in working his sugar cane farm.^[1] In fact, another source confirms that Cortada in fact owned 28 slaves in 1872, one year before the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico.^[2]

As with businesses today, each hacienda in those days had a business name, and Cortada's hacienda was called La Mallorquina. It was located in the nearby town of Santa Isabel.^[3]

Cortada, together with his brother Ramon, was also in the money-lending business, lending capital to 11 other hacendados in the area. By 1870 Cortada owned five haciendas in the municipality of Ponce.^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ Terratenientes Extranjeros
2. ^ Propietarios de esclavos en los barrios rurales de Ponce.Retrieved November 28, 2009.
3. ^ Terratenientes Extranjeros
4. ^ Terratenientes Extranjeros

[edit] External Links

• Link to Puerto Rico

[edit] See also

• Ponce, Puerto Rico
• List of famous Puerto Ricans

Political offices
Preceded by Alejandro Albizu	Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico 1873–1874	Succeeded by Rafael León y García