Cirilo Villaverde
(Oct. 28, 1812-Oct. 23, 1894)

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(Jan. 18, 1832-March 4, 1897)

 
 
 
Spanish loyalist cartoons of Cirilo and Emilia Villaverde (1869-1870)

 
 
Bust of Cirilo Villaverde at Plazuela del Santo Angel, Havana.

 
 


Emilia Casanova arrival in Philadelphia, May 6, 1854



Arrival in N.Y.C. Aug. 20, 1860
Arrival in N.Y.C. Dic. 12, 1861

 
 
 
Arrival in N.Y.C. April 23, 1863
U.S. citizen, Oct. 27, 1876

 
 
 
1870 N.Y.C. census
1880 N.Y.C. census

 
 
 
Passport, Oct. 23, 1880
Passport, Nov. 8, 1886

 
 
 
Cirilo Villaverde, death Certificate, Oct. 23, 1894

Carta de Cirilo Villaverde a su hermano Juan (Enero 25, 1850)
Carta de Cirilo Villaverde a José Sánchez Yznaga (Junio 17, 1850)
Emilia C. Villaverde arrives in New York from Havana, April 23, 1863
Daughter Emilia Villaverde obituary (New York Herald, Dec. 26, 1867, 3
Singular Charge of Stealing a Cuban Flag (New York Times, Sept. 14, 1870)
The Cuban Flag Litigation (New York Times, Sept. 29, 1870)
Madame Emilia C. de Villaverde, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 6, 1871, 133

Why Wealthy Ricardo Casanova Rodriguez Deserted His Beautiful Wife, New York Herald, July 27, 1890, 13
Obituary, New York Herald, Oct. 24, 1894, 1

The Cuban Flag, Springfield Daily Illinois State Register, Aug. 1, 1898, 4
Here to Purchase Sugar Machinery, Trenton Evening Times, Jan. 11, 1912, 4

Leopoldo Borrego, Emilia Casanova: Rasgos definidores, Diario de la Marina, abril 15, 1951, 47
Hollingsworth, C. Cirilo Villaverde and Realism: The Theme of Slavery in Cecilia Valdes. Caribbean Studies, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Jan., 1976), pp. 29-42

Leiva, Roberto. En el centenario de Cecilia Valdes, El Miami Herald, agosto 22, 1983
del Risco, Enrique. Tras los pasos del escritor cubano Cirilo Villaverde en Nueva York, El Nuevo Herald, Oct. 14, 2016