Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta
Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta (September 12, 1812 – December 4, 1897) was a Chilean philanthropist.
She was born September 18, 1812, in San Juan de la Puntilla (San Juan's Point),[a] on the banks of the Rio Grande in Ovalle in the Coquimbo Region. Her parents were Juan Bautista de Quiroga and Antonia Darrigrand. She married the philanthropist Jose Tomas de Urmeneta and continued his social charities. As president of various religious and aid societies, and she contributed to the founding of churches and homes for the poor. She died on December 4, 1897.[1]
Notes[edit]
- ^ San Juan de la Puntilla on the Grande River (Coquimbo) is a point also close to the Limarí River
References[edit]
- ^ Figueroa, Pedro Pablo (1901). Diccionario biográfico de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. 3 (4th ed.). Impr. y encuadernacion Barcelona. p. 19-20. OCLC 6954676.
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