Background
Joaquin Gonzalez was born on July 22, 1853, in Baliuag, Bulacan, Philippines. He was the son of Fausto Gonzalez and Maria Amparo Angeles.
C/Plaza de Santa Cruz, 8, 47002 Valladolid, Spain
Universidad de Valladolid where Joaquin Gonzalez received his Licentiate of Medicine degree.
151 Muralla St, Intramuros, Manila, 1002 Metro Manila, Philippines
Colegio de San Juan de Letran where Joaquin Gonzalez received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Joaquin Gonzalez was born on July 22, 1853, in Baliuag, Bulacan, Philippines. He was the son of Fausto Gonzalez and Maria Amparo Angeles.
Joaquin Gonzalez had his early schooling in Baliuag. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colegio de San Juan de Letran, he sailed for Spain in March 1872. From the Universidad de Valladolid, he received a Licentiate of Medicine degree and from the Universidad de Madrid a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1878.
After his graduation, Joaquin Gonzalez went to Paris where he became an assistant for a time in the laboratory of Dr.Weckert. Then he traveled to France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.
Upon his return to Manila, Dr. Gonzalez established a clinic on Plaza de Binondo. He, later on, removed it to Baliwag where he enjoyed a lucrative practice. For the short term in 1896 he discharged the office of justice of the peace of Apalit, Pampanga, he had his residence in barrio Sulipan. During the first period of the Revolution against Spain in 1896, he was appointed first lieutenant in the Spanish medical corps of volunteers. During the second stage, he was nominated member of the Consultative Assembly in May 1898 by General Augustin, but that gesture failed to win back Filipino loyalty to Spain.
Dr. Gonzalez was one of the two elected representatives of Pampanga province (the other being Jose Rodriguez. Infante) to the Malolos Congress. He was a member of the commission on credentials and was one of the many nominees for the vice-presidency on the first voting, but the body finally elected Benito Legarda. He was named one of the members, together with Felipe G. Calderon, of the committee which drafted the rules of debate and procedure of the Congress, and member of the drafting committee created to frame the constitution. Upon the establishment of the Universidad Cientifico-Literaria de Filipinas' by presidential decree of October 19, 1898, he was chosen its rector. The university was inaugurated on November 10 and was located at Navotas and Tambobong.
Later it was moved to Malolos where it had its adjunct school of secondary instruction, the Institute Burgos, installed in the convent of Barasoain. It offered courses in law, medicine and surgery, pharmacy, and notarial law. When the question of the unity of church and state came up for discussion in the Congress, Gonzalez was one of the three who defended the adoption of the Roman Catholic religion as that of the state. He wrote an article in support of that position. He was succeeded as rector of the university by Dr. Leon Ma. Guerrero who was holding that position in the opening exercises held on September 30, 1899.
On January 22, 1884, Joaquin Gonzalez married Florencia Sioco y Rodriguez. The marriage produced ten children, all boys.