Cuban Exile Community in 19th Century Key West

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Wharf in 1838

Key West  in 1838

Light House in 1838

Alpizar Poyo, Raoul. Cayo Hueso y Jose Dolores Poyo (1947)
Perez Rolo, Juan. Mis recuerdos [s.l.: s.n., 192?]
Poyo, Gerald E. Cuban Revolutionaries and Monroe County Reconstruction Politics, 1868-1876The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 4 (April, 1977), pp. 407-422
_____. Key West and the Cuban Ten Years War The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Jan., 1979), pp. 289-307
_____. Cuban Patriots in Key West, 1878-1886: Guardians at the Separatist Ideal The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 1 (July, 1982), pp. 20-36
Ronning, C. Neale. Jose Marti and the Emigre Colony in Key West (1990)
Shofner, Jerrell H. Cuban Revolutionaries and the 1876 Election Dispute. American Chronicle, Vol. 1, Feb. 1972, pp. 21-25.
Harper, Paula. Cuba Connections: Key West. Tampa. Miami, 1870 to 1945 The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol. 22, Cuba Theme Issue. (1996), pp. 278-291.
How Cigars Are Made, The Manufacturer and Builder, April 1872, 77-78.
Rockwood, Caroline Washburn. Cayo Hueso. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, March 1892.
The Unionization of Florida Cigarmakers and the Coming of the War with Spain, The Hispanic American Historical Review, (Feb., 1956), pp. 38-49
Key West embraces its Cuban heritage
 

ARTICLES
"Wreck Statistics at Key West,"The New York Times, Feb. 21, 1857, p. 5
"The Improtance of the Place as a Military and Naval Station," The New York Times, March 26, 1863, p. 8
"The Island--Its Uses--Inhabitants," San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, May 9, 1868
"Key West a manufacturer of cigars," Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, Sept. 4, 1869
"Five cigar factories at Key West," Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express, Oct. 23, 1869
"The Cubans in Key West," San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Nov. 26, 1869
"Mr. Rollins, agent of the Cuban Junta," Little Rock Morning Republican, Feb. 4, 1870, 1
"The Havana Sensation--Further Contradiction," Baltimore Sun, Feb. 5, 1870, p. 1
"Key West, Florida," Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal & Messenger, Feb. 27, 1872
"A public meeting of the Junta," Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, Feb. 4, 1873, 4
"Florida Items," Columbus, GA Daily Sun, Feb. 7, 1873, 2
"Interesting Information About the Isolated City," The New York Times, May 15, 1873, p. 4
"Resort for invalids," Cleveland Morning Daily Herald, May 20, 1873
"U.S. steamer Worcester," Washington Daily Critic, Nov. 24, 1873, 3
"The Navy Department strenghtening Key West" Trenton Daily State Gazette, Dec. 5, 1873, 2
 "Key West: Its Situation, Inhabitants and Indiustry," Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, Dec. 21, 1873, 3
"Key West Cigar Factories," Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal & Messenger, Dec. 23, 1873
"A Queer Town," The New York Times, Jan. 2, 1874, 3
"Gen. Rafael Quesada: Interview with the Cuban General," The New York Times, Jan. 8, 1874, 5
"Key West,"The New York Times, Jan. 11, 1874, p. 3
"Key West Sketches," The New York Times, Jan. 19, 1874, p. 2
"Key West a rising island city," Houston TX Galveston Daily News, Feb. 6, 1874
"The Naval Drill at Key West," Middleton, Ct. Daily Constitution, March 6, 1874, p. 4
"Key West cisterns are nearly dry," Houston TX Galveston Daily News, May 17, 1874
"A Cuban woman wishes to engage herself to a family," Baltimore Sun, June 15, 1874, p. 4
"Floridian Facts," Trenton, N.J., Daily State Gazette, Oct. 11, 1875, p. 1
 "A Cuban prisoner's escape," Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, November 17, 1875, 3
"Letter from Key West," Baltimore Sun, Jan. 17, 1876, p. 4
"Mardi Gras observed by Cubans of Key West," Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph & Messenger, March 21, 1876, 2
"What Judge Bernard Has to Say of the Politics of His State," Wheeling, WV Daily Register, Nov. 14, 1876, 1
"Travels in South Florida and Cuba," Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph & Messenger, June 19, 1877, 8
"A Trip to the Tropics," Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean, May 9, 1878, p. 2
"A Trip to the Tropics," Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean, May 11, 1878, p. 9
"Key West," San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, July 31, 1879
"The Cuban citizens of Key West," San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 18, 1879
"Key West versus Imported Cigars," San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, April 28, 1880
"The Island of Key West," San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, May 15, 1880, p. 2
"Chicago Cigars," Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean, Dec. 14, 1880, p. 8
"Meeting of colored Cuban citizens," Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph & Messenger, Jan. 7, 1881, 5
"Cigar Manufacturers Surprised," Washington Evening Critic, April 27, 1883, p. 1
"Key West and the Conchs,"The New York Times, May 11, 1884, p. 6
"A Spanish Consul Threatened," The New York Times, May 17, 1884, p. 2
"The Key West Collectorship,"The New York Times, May 18, 1884, p. 3
"Home Life in Key West," The New York Times, May 18, 1884, p. 6
"He is Fined Heavily at Key West" Dallas Weekly Herald, July 3, 1884, p. 1
"Key West in Flames,"The New York Times, March 31, 1886, p. 1
"The Key West Fire," The New York Times, April 1, 1886, p. 1
"For the Fire Victims,"The New York Times, April 3, 1886, p. 2
"An Appeal from Key West,"The New York Times, April 5, 1886, p. 2
"A Large Cigar Factory,"The New York Times, Jan. 30, 1888, p. 1
 

CENSUS RECORDS
Key West 1870 census
Key West 1880 census, Precinct 1
Key West 1880 census, Precinct 2
Key West 1880 census, Precinct 3
Key West 1880 census, Precinct 4
Key West 1880 census, Precinct 5
Domingo J. Milord (1910 census) Picker at cigar factory
Domingo J. Milord (1920 census) Cuban Consul
Domingo J. Milord (1925 passenger list) Cuban Consul
Domingo J. Milord (1930 census) Cuban Consul
 
 

GONZALO CASTAÑON ESCARANO

An Havana Editor in Florida to Fight a Duel (New York Times, Jan. 30, 1870)
Excitement at Key West--The Editor of the Voz de Cuba Killed (Baltimore Sun, Feb. 1, 1870)
Cuban Patriots at Key West (Baltimore Sun, Feb. 1, 1870)
A Cuban Editor Shot (New York Times, Feb. 1, 1870)
Arrival of Senor Castanon's Remains at Havana (Baltimore Sun, Feb. 2, 1870)
Remains of Castanon at Havana (New York Times, Feb. 2, 1870)
(Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 2, 1870)
(Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, Feb. 5, 1870)
The Editorial Recontre at Key West (Columbus Enquirer, Feb. 8, 1870)
From Key West (Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, Feb. 25, 1870)
Cubans in Key West (Galveston Tri Weekly News, March 7, 1870)
Reign of Terror at Key West (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 5, 1870)
Tragedies at Key West (Daily Cleveland Herald, April 7, 1870)
The Castanon Murder (New York Times, May 21, 1870)
The Executions at Havana (Trenton Daily State Gazette, Dec. 5, 1871)
Combate de Russell House Cayo Hueso 1870: Muerte de Castañón (1870)