210:, appointed BacardĂ as mayor of Santiago. In this position, Emilio worked extensively with the American military administration, and the relationship between him and General Wood warmed to the level of friendship, tempered by their complicated political relationship. As mayor, he was generally recognized as a competent and effective manager, succeeding on extending services and practicing good government under the military administration and later the new Cuban republic. His reputation for honesty and public service distinguished him from many of the would-be leaders who arose in the post-independence political scramble, and he eventually ran for and won a seat in the national senate in 1906.
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33, devastating Emilio and sending him into a depression from which it took months to recover. The following year Emilio's heartbreak worsened with the passing of family patriarch Don
Facundo BacardĂ MassĂł. His eventual recovery to both the Bacardi business and forefront of the fight for independence coincided with the companionship of Elvira Cape, whom he married in 1887 and lived with for the rest of his life. Their four children (Marina, Lucia (Mimin), Adelaida (Lalita), and Amalia) further enlarged the BacardĂ family.
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day (including abolition of slavery, criticism of organized religion, nationalism, and democracy). By the time he returned to Cuba, his interests lay more in political and poetic activism than business. However, as the first-born son of his father, at the age of 17, he was given a growing and important role in the fledgling company.
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Jerusalem, and Egypt, bringing back antiquities, art, and Cuba's first genuine Cuban mummy to display in the Emilio BacardĂ Moreau
Municipal Museum in Santiago de Cuba. By the age of 75, Emilio had mostly retired from business affairs and spent much of his time reading, and writing novels like his famed series
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descent. His father was a businessman who in 1862 founded the
Bacardi rum company that would grow into today's international corporation, Bacardi Limited. However, before finding stability in the rum business, Facundo and his young family experienced hardships in Cuba. For instance, in 1852 a major
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Emilio's personal life continued to develop as well: in 1876 he married Maria Lay
Berlucheau, a French Cuban from Santiago. He would go on to have a number of children with her, including Emilio (Emilito), Daniel, Jose, Facundo, Maria, and Carmen. In the spring of 1885, Maria Lay died at the age of
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In some ways, Emilio was protected from the turbulence by distance: the family's return to Cuba was completed without him, as Emilio stayed behind with a family friend in Spain. He received instruction in literary and political topics and grew to appreciate the arts and the liberal politics of the
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Into the 20th century, Emilio and the second generation of BacardĂ family oversaw the expansion and eventual success of the BacardĂ rum company. This led Emilio to spend more time in private ventures, and traveling the world. In 1912, Emilio and his wife Elvira took a long trip overseas to Paris,
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Throughout the 1870s, 1880's, and 1890's, Emilio's dual identity as business magnate and subversive political activist grew. The rum business continued to grow under his leadership, which was made official in 1877 when Don
Facundo retired and named him president of the company. At the same time,
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Emilio BacardĂ Moreau died from a heart ailment on August 28, 1922, at the age of 78. The city of
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