Pensionados & Students
8/26/1903 Pensionado Act ( Act 854) colonial Philippine Commission
sent group of Filipino students to the U.S. to study (1903-1910). Non-sponsored students were sent by their affluent family,
wards of others or self-supporting employed students (history tidbits-famous Filipino pensionado of Spanish colonial government
Juan Luna, the painter)
Sources:
Wikipedia
http://elibrary.supremecourt.gov.ph/index4.php
** after the name are government pensionados
A
Leandro ABISTANA born
1890 Philippines arr via Oceanic 11/17/1909 “student; steerage passenger; brother: Vincent Cebu Philippines”
“destination: Indiana” http://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
Candido M. Africa born
10/2/1895 Lipa Batangas; died 2/12/1945 Manila; doctoral degree, tropical medicine London; Harvard Universityl & John Hopkins
University (1930-)
Honoria Acosta (Sison)** born 12/30/1888 Calasiao Pangasinan; pensionada 1904-1909 Women’s
College of Pennsylvania
medical degree; 1st Filipino lady physician; UP professor; awarded
Presidential Medal for medical research (1951)
Juan Bautista ALEGRE born1882 Sorsogon, Philippines; (Ellis Island arr via Arabic 12/4/1903; arr via Etruria 9/10/1904
manifest line #0001 page 98 "Philippine Island student destination Grand Union Hotel NY"
arr via Teutonic 2/2/1905 “student Yale University”;
arr. via Monserrat 8/12/1914 32y, w/ wife & son; “New Haven before”) (Notes by M.E. Embry: New Haven-Yale
CT); member Philippine Senate, 1920; 1922-1928; one of the financiers of Philippine
Herald newspaper; deceased before 1934 (Source: http://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1934/mar1934/gr_1-39746_1934.html http://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
Godofredo Campo Alinio
born 11/8/1895 Philippines; died 2/23/1980 New York
listed 1930 census Brooklyn New York; w/ fellow students-Paul Avancena (born 1902) Jose Fernandez (born 1900), Gaudencio Menor (born
1906), Rustico Perucho (born 1905)
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo born 4/5/1947 Manila; Pres of the Philippines (2001-) Georgetown University; daughter of former Pres. Macapagal; classmate
of Pres Clinton
Paul Avancena born 1902
Philippines listed 1930 census Brooklyn New York; w/ fellow students-Paul Avancena (born 1902) Jose Fernandez (born 1900), Gaudencio Menor (born
1906), Rustico Perucho (born 1905) Godofredo Alinio (born 1902)
B
Apolinario Baltazar **
from Manila; pensionado @ Cornell University
Felix Angelo Bautista born 5/20/1896 Malolos,
Bulacan Master of Laws, Georgetown University, SC Associate Justice
1950-1956
Conrado Benitez ** born
11/26/1889 Pagsanjan Laguna; died 1/4/1971; pensionado (1911) to the University
of Chicago (1957 Distinguished Alumnus Award); lawyer; Dean, University
of the Philippines; Phil Dept of Economics head; Jose Rizal College Pres.; husband
of Francisca Tirona, (founder of Phil Women’s University 1913); father of Sen Helena Z. Benitez;
brother of Francisco Benitez, another pensionado
Francisco Benitez ** born 6/4/1887 Pagsanjan, Laguna; died 6/30/1951; pensionado 1905 @Western Illinois State Normal School; U.P College
of Education Dean; Secretary of Public Instruction, 1946, Columbia University Medal
(1929). citation of merit (Education) by Pres. Quirino; brother of Conrado Benitez
Jorge Bocobo ** born 10/19/1886
Gerona Tarlac; died 7/23/1965; left via ship Rochilla Maru a w/ the other 100 1st pensionados; (1903); Indiana University law grad (6/1907); University of the Philippiness Pres (1934-1939);
Pedro Bunuan medical student Source: 1930 NY census House#74 Dwelling
#44 family#380 resident of Johnson St Track 11 Block J 1st Assembly District Brooklyn Kings County NY; living w/ two
brothers- Bibiano & Bernardo
( view http://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com for Bernardo)
C
Jose C. Campos, Jr. born 4/9/1923 Dasmarinas,
Cavite Masters of Laws, Yale Law School, (1952); University
Business Management Institute, University of Kentucky, (1961);
Graduate Courses on University and College Administration, Michigan
State University, 1961 SC Associate Justice
1992-1993
Lino Juan CASTILLEJO born 9/3/1894 Philippines; arr via La Bourdonnais 12/4/1923 "graduate college Princeton University N.J; Source:1920 Wash D.C. census Roll T625_210
page 2B ED 167 Image 0529 household of Teodoro Yangco "secretary" Source: WW1 Draft Reg. Wash DC
1915 teacher-student @
Philippine Normal College, wrote (w/ Jesusa Araullo) the 1st play written in English "A Modern Filipina; view http://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
Aniceto CORDIRO ** born 1891 Philippines arr via Antonio Lopez 10/12/1911 w/ Francisco Munoz “student” “brother Alejo from Batangashttp://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
Irene
R. Cortes born 10/20/1921 Legaspi City; LL.M; S.J.D. DeWitt Fellow; Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan SC Associate Justice (1987-1990)
Nicanor CRUZ born 1891 Manila Philippines
arr via Buenos Aires 9/10/1913 w/ Joaquin Lopez “University of PA”
“mother Carmen Garcia” scholar http://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
D
Mariano Honrado. De Joya ** born 9/8/1887 Batangas, Batangas; Bachelor of Law,Indiana University, 1906; Masters of Laws, Yale, 1907; SC Actg Associate Justice, 6/1945; resigned on 6/25/1946
E
Ramon EXITO born 1887 Pontevedra Negros Philippines arr via Antonio
Lopez 5/13/1913 w/ Max Tapanlangit “father Thomas Rizal St” “student” “friend Wallen Elwood Armsterdam NY” http://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
F
Vicente FABELLA born
1891 Philippines arr via Buenos Aires
9/10/1913 w/ Salvador Unson “Juan Fabella relative Pagsanhan; student University of Chicago";
1st Filipino Public Accountant; founded Jose Rizal College in the Philippines
(1919) http://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
Florentino P. Feliciano born 3/14/1928 Manila JSD, LLM,
Fellow, 1952-1955 Yale University, SC Associate Justice1986-1995
Jose
Fernandez born 1900 Philippines; listed 1930 census Brooklyn New
York; w/ fellow students-Paul Avancena
(born 1902) Jose Fernandez (born 1900), Gaudencio Menor (born 1906), Rustico Perucho (born 1905) Godofredo Alinio (born 1895)
G
Jose Garrido born 1891
Manila, Philippines; arr via Montevideo 6/10/1913; student;
“Joaquin of Calle Real 228 Intramuros Manila-father”; destination: NYhttp://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
Lucio John GODINO born
3/8/1908 Samar Philippines arr via George Washington 6/30/1924 w/ Teodoro Yangco; student; (see notes for his Siamese twin brother, Simplicio
Godino) http://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
Simplicio Joseph GODINO born
3/8/1908 Samar Philippines arr via George
Washington 6/30/1924 w/ Teodoro Yangco; ship manifest born "3/2/1908 Sulat Phil Is" AKA Godino or Godina Siamese Twins
with his twin (Pygopagus- positioned back to back & joined @ the base of the spine) brother Lucio.They were on Coney Island
sideshow circuit @ 11 yrs old until adopted by Teodoro Yangco after Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (SPCC)
published their complaint that the twins had no official guardian. Teodoro Yangco, the diplomat-philanthropist provided
them w/ good education. student; Later, after the twins marriage
(1929) to identical non-conjoined twin sisters-Natividad (Simplicio) & Victorina (Lucio), they all performed in vaudeville
acts in North & South America. They were accomplished bandleaders, dancers, roller skaters
Source: Time 12/7/1936 issue
"Siamese Severed"twins "firmly bound @ the tail bones by a link of muscle, fibre and intestine.Simplicio's digestive tract
ended in a blind pocket of gut about half an inch short of where it should have ended. He drained through the connecting link
into his Brother Lucio's normal colon".Lucio died in York Hospital after contracting pneumonia in 11/1936. Dr. Hippolyte Marcus Wertheim performed
an emergency surgery to separate the healthy Simplicio from the dead body of his twin brother. A few days later & Simplicio
would also die of cerebro-spinal meningitis Listed in the 1920 Wash D.C. Census "ward of Teodoro Yangco".Listed in the 1930
Manhattan New York Census w/ their wives (Natividad & Victorina) "actor theatrical" "Actress theatrical" other source
"open for research" 14 photos The Musicians Collection Henry Ransom Humanities Research Center The University of Texas @ Austin
RLIN Record ID TXRC 99-417http://filipinosgone2ellis-island.tripod.com
Hugo
E. Gutierrez, Jr. born
1/29/1927 Lubao, Pampanga University
of Michigan Law School, 1965; De Witt Fellowships Fulbright-Hayes Grant Associate Justice (1982-1993)
J
Delfin
Jaranilla ** born 12/24/1883 La Paz, Iloilo; 1903 pensionado; Tennessee
State University & Georgetown University SC Associate Justice 1945-46
Enrique
L. “Henry” Jurado born 1911 Philippines;
WW11 casualty; killed 10/19/1944 by a competing band of guerillas; Major; Army U.S. Naval Academy 1934 grad M.S. M.I.T.
K
Princess Tarhata (Putli) Kiram Universty of Illinois
(notes by M.E. Embry learned about this princess from Pociano Del Valle, my grdfather who
was a pre-WW2 homesteader in Kidapawan Cotobato)
