When Josefa de Jesus Valverde Mora was born on 21 March 1852, in Desamparados, San José, Costa Rica, her father, Cosme Valverde Chacón, was 23 and her mother, Irene de los Reyes Mora Padilla, was 23. She died on 19 October 1911, at the age of 59.
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President Juan Rafael Mora is ousted from power. After a failed attempt at a counter-coup, he is executed.
American businessman Minor Cooper Keith brings the United Fruit Company and banana cultivation to Cost Rica. Keith originally arrived to oversee construction of the Atlantic Railroad, which would connect the coffee producing central plateau with the Caribbean coast.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Luis, Manuel, Carlos, Roberto, Juan, Ana, Francisco, Jorge, Mario, Pedro, Angel.
Spanish and Portuguese: habitational name from any of numerous places called Valverde ‘green valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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