Manuel Rionda (1854–1943) was a Spanish-born, US-based sugar baron in
Cuba
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Early life
Manuel Rionda was born in 1854 in
Noreña,
Spain
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The Rionda family began investing in Cuban sugar in the 1860s.
By 1870, when Rionda was sixteen, Rionda emigrated to
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
.
Career
Rionda co-founded the Czarnikow-Rionda Company with
Julius Caesar Czarnikow
Julius Caesar Czarnikow (1838 – 17 April 1909) was a German-born, London-based sugar broker and investor.
Early life
Julius Caesar Czarnikow was born in 1838 in Sondershausen, Germany. He was of Polish Jewish descent. His father was Moritz C ...
in 1909.
By 1915, he co-founded the Cuba Cane Sugar Company with his family.
Rionda was the owner of sugar plantations in Cuba.
Prior to the 1930s, Czarnikow-Rionda Company "sold 40 per cent of Cuba's sugar".
Personal life
Rionda married Harriet Clarke.
They resided at Rio Vista estate, a 300-acre estate in
Alpine, New Jersey
Alpine is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, approximately north of Midtown Manhattan. It is the easternmost community in New Jersey.
As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 1,849, .
They had no children, but they raised his orphaned nephew, Manuel Enrique Rionda, who later resided on the Glen Goin estate in Alpine with his wife, Ellen Goin.
Death and legacy
Rionda died in 1943.
A tower designed by architect
Charles Rollinson Lamb
Charles Rollinson Lamb (1860 – February 22, 1942) was an American architect and sculptor.
Born and raised in New York City, he studied under William Sartain at the Art Students' League. He was a member of his father's firm, the J&R Lamb ...
on his former estate still stands in Alpine, New Jersey, one of the most affluent zipcodes in the United States.
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References
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1854 births
1943 deaths
American businesspeople
Cuban businesspeople
People from Alpine, New Jersey
Spanish emigrants to Cuba