Background
His father was a farmer, so to help his family had to work as a child doing the same work on a ranch.
His father was a farmer, so to help his family had to work as a child doing the same work on a ranch.
After recovering from some diseases, he studied teaching at a seminar.
He also reached the position of mayor of Tandil. With the aim to colonise new frontiers, he arrived in Argentina and settled in Tandil where he dedicated to teaching and agriculture, and where he also established the first school in the village and built the first bakery. In Tandil there is still the mill he built himself.
He was mayor and justice of the peace, besides occupying other political posts.
He had eight children, one boy and seven girls, six of whom died at an early age.