Juan Malixi

From Cornejo's Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1917)

MALIXI, Juan - Civil Engineer; Assistant Manager, Metropolitan Water District; res. 1704 Washington Avenue, Sampaloc, Manila.

Born in Balanga, Bataan, on June 24, 1888, son of Pablo Malixi and Bernardina Miaco. After receiving his primary instruction from the public school of his home town during the early part of American administration, he was appointed a municipal teacher with a salary of ₱15.00 a month. He was later appointed a teacher pensionado to take a special course in the Philippine School of Arts and Trades in 1908, and passed the Insular Teacher examintion. He was appointed a Supervising Teacher in Bataan in 1910. He went to the United States in 1912 and continued his studies, graduating with the degree of B.S.C.E. in 1919. While he was studying engineering in America, he worked for the United States Bureau of Public Roads and the State Highway Department of Wyoming with a salary of $150.00 a month, and resigned from said position on July 1, 1920, when he returned to the Philippines. On Aug. 1, 1929, he was appointed a Civil Engineer in the Metropolitan Water District, taking charge of the investigation, surveys and construction of the Angat project, and was later entrusted the administration of the Service Department. He was acting Asst. Manager and at the same time taking charge of all the work of the Engineering Department with a salary of ₱6,000.00 per annum, and was later promoted to his present position.

Engineer Malixi is married to Josefa Reyes, and has five children. he is a member of the Philippine Society of Civil Engineers.

Immigration to San Francisco, California, United States (1912)