Background
MATAMOROS JARA, Carlos was born on April 4, 1871 in Guayaquil. Son of Eulogio Matamoros and Francisca Jara de Matamoros.
MATAMOROS JARA, Carlos was born on April 4, 1871 in Guayaquil. Son of Eulogio Matamoros and Francisca Jara de Matamoros.
Among the many public offices held by Senior Matamoros may be mentioned: Employee of the customs department. School inspector of Guayas.
Provincial delegate to the National Pedagogical Conferences of 1916 and 1920.
Member of the Directive Board of the first Teacher’s Assembly of Quito, 1916. Founder and first president of the Boy Scouts of Ecuador.
Member of the committee of historians appointed by the Municipality of Guayaquil to ascertain the original site of the city, 1929. Sometime editor of El Telégrafo, the oldest daily of Guayaquil.
Etc. An educator for more than 25 years.
At present director of the Municipal Library and Museum, and of the Revista Municipal, of Guayaquil.
Centro de Investigaciones Históricas of Guayaquil (charter member and assistant director). Boy Scouts of Canada. Centro de Estudios Históricos y Geográficos of Azuay.
Ateneo of El Salvador.
Centro Intelectual “Agustín Aspiazu” of Louisiana Paz.
Married Rosario Luástegui de Matamoros Jara.