Author: Casimiro D. Rubio
Born: 1865
Died: 1940
Bio: Casimiro D. Rubio was born in Queztaltenango in 1865 and died in New Orleans in 1940.  He served under two Presidents:  for Manuel Cabrera in 1908-1910 as Vice Consul to Guatemala in San Francisco and later as Consul General to the Southeastern United States for Jorge Ubico until his death.  He was married twice (Dolores Aragon and Angela Balmes), and had fourteen children from these marriages.  His parentage is a mystery, but family oral history passed on to his children and grandchildren claim he was the bastard child of a Russian sailor and a Guatemalan woman.  He was a soldier, poet and intellectual. He wrote numerous books and pamphlets.  He was publisher of at least two newspapers in Guatemala.  In 1915 he took a trip to the Mayo Clinic were he had an operation. During that trip, which lasted almost a year, he kept a detailed journal of his experience.  He stopped in San Francisco for the World Expo, representing Guatemala and its coffee industry.  The Rubio family plans to donate all the original documents in their possession to the Tulane Latin American Collection once the pandemic is over.