Background
José Martínew york Espinosa de los Monteros was born in Malaga, Spain on November 29.
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Jose Martin y Espinosa de los Monteros
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1776.
As a boy was orphaned. After a full military career in the Spanish Navy, he became a "Piloto Mayor" in the Casa de Contratación. He was granted honorable discharge by royal decree for special services to the Spanish Crown.
Then, he decided to settle in the city of Merida, Department of Yucatan, then New Spain which now belongs to Mexico.
With an education instilled under the so called "full Spanish illustration". He developed himself in the fields of exact sciences as mathematician and astronomer, as a naturalist with special inclination to identify the peninsular flora and its possible uses, as a surveyor and cartographer, and in the graphic arts
He died in Octuber, 15th.
Membership
He devoted himself to public service participating as financier of the Province of Yucatan, administrating various charities, as an active member of the Council of Trade of Yucatan and being Synod of public examinations.
