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Don Gonzalo Puyat

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Guagua, Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines
Death: February 05, 1968 (89)
Malate, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Place of Burial: Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Immediate Family:

Son of Alejandra Puyat
Husband of Nicasia Juco de Puyat
Father of Virginia Macaraig; Deogracias Juco Puyat; Gil Puyat; Sandalio Juco Puyat; Leoncia Puyat-Reyes and 5 others

Occupation: Businessman
Managed by: Private User
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About Gonzalo Puyat

Gonzalo Puyat left his home in Guagua with his wife in 1906 for a better life in Manila. He founded the "House of Puyat", which became one of the larges furniture manufacturers of the time. The company eventually expanded to include billiard tables and bowling lanes. Considered one of the first Filipino industrialists, he founded "Gonzalo Puyat and Sons" which diversified the family's holdings to include flour, lumber, vinyl and steel.

New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 373-374)

Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the New Philippines (1936, p. 496-497, Images 206-207)

Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 2028)

Death certificate

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Gonzalo Puyat's Timeline

1878
September 20, 1878
Guagua, Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines
1900
March 23, 1900
Guagua, Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines
1904
1904
1907
September 1, 1907
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
1908
September 3, 1908
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
1910
January 13, 1910
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
1912
March 30, 1912
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
1914
1914
Intramuros, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
1916
December 22, 1916
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
1924
June 5, 1924
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines