Marcos Bisonó

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Bisonó and the second or maternal family name is Haza.

Marcos Rodolfo Bisonó Haza is a Dominican businessman and lawyer. Bisonó is currently the President of Asociación Dominicana de la Industria del Cigarrillo (ASOCIGAR).[1]

Early life

Marcos Bisonó was born in Santo Domingo, and is the son of architect Victor Bisonó Pichardo, born into a prominent family[nb 1] from Villa Bisonó in the foothills of the Northern Mountain-Range in Santiago Province,[2][3] and Ivonne Haza , a renowned national soprano from San Pedro de Macorís. He completed elemental school at Colegio Santa Teresita and graduated Cum Laude as Juris Doctor from the Universidad Iberoamericana’s Law School. He also completed some courses at the Lawyers Yale School of Management.

Bisonó is descended from Fernando Valerio, considered a heroe of the Battle of Santiago (1844).[4]

Ancestors

Notes

  1. ↑ The Bisonó family descends from Jean Bissonnet (d. 1817), his wife Marie Framingdano, and their child, Pierre Bissonnet (born in France in 1775). Pierre married twice, first to Marie-Joséphine Sanout and later to Marie Thami. The Bissonnet were landowners in Gonaïves, Saint-Domingue (currently Haiti) and had to flee amid a massacre against whites to San José de las Matas, in the then-French-administered Santo Domingo (currently the Dominican Republic). Pierre had 1 children with the former: María Josefa (born in Gonaïves, died 1896 in San José de las Matas); with the latter he had 4 children: Pedro Luys (1805-1853), Ana (1806-1886), Miguel (?), Pedro Antonio (1807-1882), all born in San José de las Matas; his father died in 1817, in San José de las Matas. Some children of Miguel and Pedro Luys Bisonó moved from San José de las Matas and established in what today is known as “Villa Bisonó”, and became wealthy farmers and traders, and eventually a prominent family.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "ASOCIGAR pide al Ministerio Público erradicar el contrabando de cigarros" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo. NCDN. 22 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Juan Francisco Bisonó; Haliday Saturria Vargas (October 2011). "Inmigración Francesa a San José de las Matas: Tercera inmigración a la Sierra". Genealogía Serrana (PDF) (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Santo Domingo: Argos. pp. 14, 24, 55–56, 60. ISBN 978-9945-408-58-4. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  3. ↑ Balaguer, Joaquín (1988). Memorias de un Cortesano de la Era de Trujillo (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Editora Corripio. pp. 12, 420. ISBN 978-8431202361. “Ya en esa época, sin embargo, la villa contaba con alguna actividad económica, que se manifestaba con la existencia en ella de varios establecimientos comerciales de cierta importancia. Los más sobresalientes pertenecían a un emigrante catalán, Don Ricaldo Canalda... y a Don Elías Bisonó, dueño además de varias fincas dedicadas a la ganadería. Sus casas eran las dos más poderosas y las que atraían mayor clientela de los campos vecinos. Pero junto a ellas se fueron formando otras más modestas, como las de Washington Lithgow... y la de Don Francisquito Bisonó. (...) La aldea nativa empieza a servir de asiento a numerosos establecimientos comerciales que la convierten poco a poco en una pequeña villa de extraordinaria actividad económica, desproporcionada con su tamaño. Entre esos establecimientos figuran el de Don Alberto Asencio, el de Don Miguel Mercado, el de Francisquito Bisonó y el de Don Juan Caridad Bisonó.”
  4. ↑ Espinal Hernández, Edwin (April 1995). "Dilucidaciones histórico-genealógicas sobre Fernando Valerio" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía. Retrieved 23 September 2014.

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