Teresa Josefa Jado y Urbina (October 20, 1819 – May 1, 1910) was the

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from 1852 to 1856 as the wife of President

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Early life

Teresa Jado was born in the city of

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on October 20, 1819, the daughter of Manuel Mauro Jado Goenaga and María Josefa Urbina y Llaguno.

Marriage and offspring

On March 28, 1845, a few days after the death of her brother Francisco, she met her uncle

, who was half-brother to her mother Josefa. Both showed signs of mutual affection and were promised to each other in a future marriage, which took place in the parish of El Sagrario in Guayaquil four years later, on January 14, 1849, when the groom was 41 years old and she was 30. The couple had five children: * María Mercedes Urbina y Jado (1850-1879), married Antonio de Lapierre Cucalón in 1874, without offspring * María Ana de Jesús Rosa de las Mercedes Urbina y Jado (1856-1919), died single and without offspring * José María de las Mercedes Manuel Adriano Urbina y Jado (1857-1900), died single and without offspring * Francisco Urbina y Jado (1859-1926), with offspring * Gabriel Antonio Urbina y Jado (1864-1895), with offspring

Public life and exile

Jado was a practicing

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, coming to defend the cause of the

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who unexpectedly arrived in Guayaquil when they were expelled from the

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in 1851. In 1855, she and her husband were chosen as baptismal sponsors of

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, who in 1911 would also become President of Ecuador. In March 1864, President Gabriel García Moreno ordered General

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, then Governor of Guayas, to impose exile on Teresa and her four small children, who were unable to attend the wake of her grandmother who had died just twenty hours before. The family moved to Peru, where General Urbina had been sent as Ecuador's Minister of Business in 1847 and then remained in exile. Reunited, they settled in

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until 1867, when they moved to

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. On January 30, 1876, after the death of García Moreno, the family was able to return to Ecuador when General Urbina was called to be part of the National Constituent Assembly, after which their fortunes improved substantially. During Independence festivities in October 1881, Jado was recognized by the Municipality of Guayaquil, along with Baltazara Calderón de Rocafuerte, Dolores R. de Grimaldo, Adela S. de Vélez, Zoila Dolores Caamaño, and Bolivia Villamil de Ycaza, for philanthropy and carrying out works for the benefit of the indigent and most needy.

Death

Teresa Jado died on May 1, 1910 in

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, Peru. Her remains were transferred to Ecuador and she was buried in the , in the same place as her husband, children, and other members of the immediate family.

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