Ignacio Eugenio Lozano Sr. (1886-September 21, 1953)Handbook of Texas Online
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border. He was a famous journalist of northern Mexico, but he joined the exodus into the

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during the

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., He moved to

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and established a

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bookstore and worked on two

periodicals. He founded ''La Prensa'' as a

daily newspaper in 1913.Interview of Monica Lozano by Shirley Biagi, Pg.1, Washington Press Club Foundation, 13 December 1993
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Press, 2006, His granddaughter,

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, would later say though ''La Prensa'' was not the first

daily, it became the largest. He founded ''

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'' in

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, home of ''La Prensas biggest readership, in 1926.Hernandez, Sandra: "Stuck in Translation,"

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, 17 June 1999 He and his wife, Alicia Elizondo Lozano, operated both papers, the one in San Antonio, the other in Los Angeles. After his death from

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in 1953, his son Ignacio E. Lozano Jr. took over as publisher at ''

'' and his widow returned to San Antonio to keep ''La Prensa'' in business for ten more years.,

Personal life

He was married to Alicia Elizondo de Lozano, who kept ''La Prensa'' running after his death, until she sold it in 1959. They had two children: Ignacio Eugenio Lozano Jr. (born 1927) and Maria Alicia Lozano (born 1923), who moved to

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as a married woman.

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