Aureliano urrutia biography examples
Aureliano Urrutia, a controversial and legendary San Antonian, inspired an interest in the figure that continues to this day.
The only other known example of bronze work commissioned by Dr Aureliano Urrutia is found at the top of the tiled side of the Broadway Arch.!
Luz Urrutia Fernández (1903-1945), the second daughter and fifth child of the Urrutias, was named for her mother, Luz Fernández.
Born in Mexico City, she was 11 years old when the family immigrated from Mexico in the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution.
She, her four older teenage siblings, and a younger sister, Alicia, were transported with Dr. Urrutia and his wife aboard a military vessel from Veracruz to Galveston. Urrutia, having served briefly in the Mexican government as Minister of the Interior, had been granted diplomatic status by the United States.
At the time of their exit from Mexico, another seven younger children stayed behind with their maternal grandparents.
The youngest child passed away during that time, but the remaining six eventually traveled to San Antonio when the family settled.
Seven years after their arrival, Luz, the mother, passed away. With her older sister Refugio already involved in the family’s pharmacy business, it fell to the 18-year-old Luz to tak