Brief Life History of José Antonio
José Antonio Duman was born as the son of Miguel Monge Jimenez and Rosa Dumani Taizum.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- José Antonio Duman, "Costa Rica, Catholic Church Records, 1595-1992"
Parents and Siblings
World Events (3)
1849
Costa Rica ousts William Walker. He wants to extend slavery to Central American countries in an expression of Manifest Destiny. He invades and names himself president of Nicaragua. Costa Rica, with the help of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, defeated Walker and his supporters with 9,000 soldiers.
1859
President Juan Rafael Mora is ousted from power. After a failed attempt at a counter-coup, he is executed.
1874
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.
Name Meaning
German: from a vernacular form of the personal name Thomas .
English: probably a variant of Demain .
French: probably a variant of Dumans, a habitational name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, for someone from Le Mans in Sarthe.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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