José Cândido da Silveira Avelar

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For the Portuguese parish in the municipality of Ansião, see Avelar

José Cândido da Silveira Avelar, (São Jorge, 1843 - Horta, December 3 de 1905), was an Azorean historian, author of the pioneered work about the history of the island of São Jorge.

He was a writer of the council administration of Velas in 1881 which he had done political and intellectual movements, sustained a polemical strength with João Duarte de Sousa, another author from the same island and a political opponent about the historiography of the island. In response, a published work for his last published in 1902 titled Ilha de S. Jorge (Açores) - Apontamentos para a sua História, the towk with many pioneering aspects about the island's history. He died three years later on December 3, 1905 in Horta in the island of Faial.

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• Ilha de S. Jorge (Açores) - Apontamentos para a sua História (São Jorge Island (Azores)), Horta, (1902).