Background
Francisco Ismael Segundo was born on 26 August 1883, at Fundo Las Pataguas in Pichidegua, Colchagua Department, in central Chile.
Francisco Ismael Segundo was born on 26 August 1883, at Fundo Las Pataguas in Pichidegua, Colchagua Department, in central Chile.
Parraguez studied at the Escuela Normal José Abelardo Núñez in Santiago. He graduated there in 1899 as a normal teacher.
He was known for being the creator of the Orfeón Chileno in 1914, during the centennial of the Battle of Rancagua. Parraguez was also known by the pseudonym of Misael Guerra. According to Héctor González, a Chilean writer and journalist for the El Rancagüino newspaper, Parraguez was known for "his great way to teach how to sing to his students, for the songs he wrote, spread all over the country." He published his first book, Un idilio menos, in 1903, which soon went out of stock.
lieutenant was followed by Poesías infantiles some years later, in 1907.
Esperanza, his last novel, was published in 1916. Parraguez married Ester Ortiz, with whom he had five children: Hernán, Flora, Julio, Waldo, and Gonzalo.
Ismael Parraguez died unexpectedly aged 33 on 8 May 1917 in Santiago.