Background
Henríquez y Carvajal was the son of Noel Henríquez Altías, a Sephardic Jew from Curaçao, and Clotilde Carvajal Fernández, who descended from the last surviving Tainos in Hispaniola. He had 10 siblings, including Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal who was President of the Dominican Republic.
