Carlos Casado del Alisal (March 16, 1833 – June 29, 1899) was a

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businessman.

Life and times

Carlos Casado del Alisal was born in

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, Palencia Province,

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. He arrived in

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in 1857, and in 1864, was named to the Board of Directors of the newly established

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by its chief stockholder, William Wheelwright. Serving in the

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City Council, he also established the Casado Bank in 1865, and ''Colonia Candelaria'', an agricultural colony, in 1870; the latter was later reestablished as

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, in honor of his mother. He founded the Provincial Bank of Santa Fe in 1874, and purchased the highly indebted ''Colonia Caridad'' in 1878, redeveloping it as San Genaro (in honor of his daughter's

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, Saint Gennaro). Casado arranged the first shipment of Argentine

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in 1878; the 4,500 tons of wheat had been grown in Candelaria, and were shipped on April 12, 1878. He was subsequently named

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adviser by President

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, and helped direct national support toward the export of cereal at a time when

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and

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s earned most of the nation's

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.''Historical Dictionary of Argentina''. London: Scarecrow Press, 1978. President of the Bank of Santa Fe, he also sat on the boards of the

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and the

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as the representative for Santa Fe Province stockholders from 1882. Casado founded the

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in 1883, and the rail line would, by 1890, connect much of the agriculturally-rich province to the

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and the

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.Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe. ''Historia institucional''
Following the

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, in which Argentina annexed what became

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from

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, Casado became of the new province's leading landowners. He died in

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in 1899, at age 66. Carlos Casado del Alisal was honored with a monument sculpted by

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, and unveiled at the Rosario headquarters of the Provincial Bank of Santa Fe in 1970. His brother was the Spanish painter

José Casado del Alisal José María Casado del Alisal (1830/32 – 8 October 1886)Brief bi ...

References

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