THIS IS MY NEXT STOP-Im coordinating with some families there to document their houses and exact clan history and entice them to open for heritage tourism.There is a little heritage organization there led by Arch.Leon Mayo.All they need is market and promotion and to organize themselves well. I will show you soon the interiors of this houses.Many of them are American Colonial Houses. SAN JUAN,BATANGAS- is a place where Coconut was King. THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE LAMBANOG. Before Quezon Province led the industry for they have more coconut farms but San Juan is where it all began.This is where Laiya Beach is located San Juan de Bolbok,Batangas. The Moxicas had a lot of lands and properties, said to have come from Fray Damaso Moxica, the friar who built the town church. He was not related to Rogelio Moxica, the husband of Cavitena Eulalia de la Cruz, whose three daughters inherited the frias properties. One of them, Gregoria Moxica, married Vicente Quizon of Lipa; their daughter, Dorotea, married Jose Trivino Mercado, a first cousin of Jose Rizal. Bishop Quizon, Taal parish priest and auxiliary bishop of Lipa Diocese, is one of the descendants. The Perezes were originally from Ibaan. Camilo Perez married Petra Trivino from San Juan. He transferred the town to its present site, and became Ibaan’s gobernadorcillo. His son, Andres, married Monica Trivino; their son, Florencio, was president municipal in 1913. The Marasigan, Mercado, Salud, and de Villa families are also dayo, or newcomers, who married into the town’s original families. The Marasigans came from Cuenca, Batangas. Francisco Marasigan (first capitan municipal under the Maura Law, 1894), married Irene Perez Mercado, granddaughter of Camilo Perez. Their son, Benito, was renowned gamester. Benito’s grandson, Octavio Jr., continues the family tradition in Saipan and Palau. Benito married Soledad Villapando of Lipa. Among his children were Francisco, Apolonio, and Horacio. Lawyer Francisco married Narisa Limjap Ubaldo. Apolonio (congressman, 1965) married his first cousin, Arceli Marasigan Lecaroz of Marinduque. Horacio married Angeles Mercado daughter of Kapitan Leon. Horacio was named “Man of the Year” in 1978 by the Manila Bulletin for fighting the establishment of a copper-smelting plant in San Juan. He headed the Landowners’ Association of the Philippines and fought against land reform. Francisco Marasigan’s sisters, Pantaleona and Dolores Marasigan, settled in San Pablo. Pantaleona married twice, first to Vicente Marino and then to Severino Dichoso. By Marino, she had her only son, Florentino, who married an Angeles of SanPablo. Their son is stage actor Tony Marino who performed the leading role in “The King and I in Sydney, Australia. By Dichoso, Pantaleona had her only daughter, Consorcia, who married Claro Alcantara. Their two daughters were Asunsion and Caridad. Asuncion married Zacarias Ticzon and Caridad married a de Gorostiza from San Pablo. Francisco Marasigan’s other sister, Dolores, married Placido Escudero, originally from Galicia, Spain who later settled in Santa Cruz, Laguna. Their only son, Arsenio, enlarged the Escudero estate in San Pablo and developed Villa Escudero, with its large collection of antiques and memorabilia. Arsenio’s grandson, Don Escudero, is a noted movie set designer and director. The Mercados, originally from Binan, Laguna descended from Juan Mercado who had thirteen children. One of them, Francisco, changed his surname to Rizal to avoid being implicated in the 1872 Cavite Mutiny, as his son, Paciano, was a student of Fr. Burgos. Spanish harassment forced Francisco’s brother to move. One of them, Gregorio, ended up in San Juan and married Eulalia M. Trivino; their son, Jose, married Dorotea Moxica Quizon. Jose and Dorotea’s son, Leon Mercado, studied in Letran and was fluent in Latin and Greek. He joined the Revolution at seventeen and was known as Kapitan Leon. He had twelve children including Dominador Mercado who developed Corinthian Gardens and Tahanan Village, and Leon Antonio Mercado, architect of Legaspi Towers. Leon’s only sister, Maria Mercado, married Santos Luz Lopez of Lipa. Their daughter, Soledad, married her first cousin, Eusebio Lopez, a 1935 Constitutional Convention delegate and judge of the People’s Court that acquitted President Laurel, Madrigal, et al. of collaboration. The Saluds, like the Marasigans, came from Cuenca. They intermarried with the de Villas, originally from San Jose, Batangas. Felipe Salud, the first Salud in San Juan, married Lucia de Villa in the late 1840s. Their son, Fidel, married Luciana Perez, daughter of Camilo. Jose de Villa, the first de Villa in San Juan, came from San Jose. He married Josefa Ylao, a native of San Juan. A descendant of theirs, Esteban de Villa, was gobernadorcillo (1892-1894) and president municipal (1900-1905, 1916-1919). His granddaughter, Thelma de Villa, married Dr. Federico Leelin whose family is from Camirines Sur and owns Goldilocks food chain. Most of San Juan’s early mayors were de Villas. Braulio de Villa was provincial governor (1919-1922). General Renato de Villa was President Ramos’s chief of staff and a presidential aspirant. The Trivinos are one of San Juan’s oldest families. Their ancestor, Juan Tribino, married Gregoria. His sister, Monica, married Camilo Perez whose son, Andres, married his first cousin, Celestina Trivino, Juan’s daughter. A descendant of Juan with the same name emigrated to Naga City after World War II and became Camarines Sur governor. FAMOUS SONS AND DAUGHTERS: Dr. Victor Salud - Graduate, UP College of Dentistry, San Juans First Dentist (1923) Gen. Renato S. De Villa - Former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, , Former Dept. of National Defense Secretary, 1998 Presidential Candidate Braulio De Villa - Former Governor of Batangas Renee Salud - The countrys premier Fashion Designer Rudy Salud - Founding Secretary-General World Boxing Council, Former PBA Commissioner, Boxing Manager and Promoter Amb. Henrietta De Villa - Former Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican Gen. Leandro R. Mendoza - Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), Former Police Director General of the Philippine National Police (2001). Antonio Bolaños Magtibay, Esq. - Philippine Ambassador to Qatar Miguel Aguila - Singer Lance Oñate - Search for the Star in a Million contestant Most Rev. Salvador Q. Quizon D.D. - Auxiliary Bishop-Emeritus of Archdiocese of Lipa Engr. Benjamin D. de Guzman - Retired Civil Engineer of DPWH, builder of many National Highways in Luzon Girlie E. Amarillo - Doctor in Social Development, Former Commissioner, National Youth Commission / Former Asst. Secretary, National Anti-Poverty Commission Kapitan Leon Quizon Mercado - Katipunero, Participated in the insurrection against the US, Farmer, Coconut King of Batangas till the early 1960s Architect Leon Sales Mercado Jr. - Philippine Architect. Founder/Principal Architect/President of LAS Mercado and Associates from the 1960s to the 90s, a firm that specialized/pioneered in the design of large residential development/condominium complexes and private residences in the greater Manila area and suburbs (First to break the 20 floor barrier for high-rise construction in the Philippines). Designer of various higher education facilities (UP). President and founder of Rainbow Philippines a citizens band radio organization in the 70s. Youngest son of Kapitan Leon Quizon Mercado.
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