Restituto Javier

Restituto Javier was the son of Luciano Javier, a Tondo property owner. After studying at the private schools of Pedro Serrano Laktaw and Hipolito Magsalin, Restituto found employment as a personero in the Customs House, and subsequently with Fressel & Co., the German-owned cement, brick and tile company where Bonifacio worked as a warehouseman.

Bonifacio shared most of his thoughts to him, both got acquinted and later was accepted to the Katipunan.

He and his half brother Jose Turiano Santiago were the primary sponsors to the wedding of Andres Bonifacio and Gregoria De Jesus.

His first assignment in the Katipunan was to enlist men of the masses in Sta.Cruz district, then was sent to Laguna and Nueva Ecija.

He was arrested together with his half brother, and banished to the Canary Islands.

Upon his return, through a prisoner-exchange program, he joined the rebels under General Pantaleon Garcia in Tarlac, where a revolutionary government was established in 1899.

He died on December 20, 1936.