Stanley Lindo
Stanley Alexander Lindo | |
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| Born | March 3, 1875 |
| Died | January 4, 1958 (aged 82) |
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Stanley Alexander Lindo was born on March 3, 1875 in Falmouth, Jamaica, to Frederick Lindo and Grace Morales.
He migrated to Costa Rica in 1890 to join his older brothers in business.
They had arrived in 1885 to work for Minor Cooper Keith, who was building a railroad from Limón to San José, Costa Rica, but quickly went into business as merchants, bankers and banana planters.[1]
Career
In 1908, the brothers founded the Florida Ice and Farm Company in Siquirres, Limón Province[2] [3] The company was located at a farm called La Florida and was a major producer of ice and other agricultural produce.[4] The company acquired Beer in Costa Rica in 1912. [5]
In 1911, the Lindo Brothers, in partnership with Felipe Alvarado, purchased the Compañía Luz Eléctrica de San Jose, Heredia y Alajuela and invested in a large hydroelectric power plant in Belén (canton) the next year. In 1924 the company was transformed into La Compañía Nacional de Electricidad.[6]
By 1911, the Lindo properties were producing half of Costa Rica's bananas, and DiGiorgio Corporation, on behalf of the Atlantic Fruit Company, approached Lindo Bros with idea of purchasing all of their banana plantations, although the entire production was contracted to United Fruit Company until July, 1914.
On October 27, 1911, Cecil Vernon Lindo gave the Atlantic Fruit Company an option to purchase their banana plantations for $3,500,000 before August, 1912. Cecil was to be the General Manager of the Atlantic Fruit Company in Costa Rica. Atlantic Fruit Company could not or would not execute the option, and the Lindo properties were sold to United Fruit Company for $5,000,000 that year.[7]
By 1913, the Lindo brothers were owners of vast sugar, coffee and cocoa estates, lumber and flour mills, breweries, ice-making and aerated factories.[8] Their agricultural interests included 1,000 acres of sugar, 2,000 acres of cacao and 7,000 acres of Coffee plantations, exporting three millions pounds of coffee each year, with an approximate value of half a million dollars.
In 1920 he was elected President of the newly organised Chamber of Agriculture. The Secretary was Manuel F Jiménez.[9]
Stanley was the Grand Master (Freemasonry)|Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica between 1937 and 1941.[10][11]
Personal Life
Stanley married Rosalía Acuña Vargas (1879-1978) on 25 June 1899 in Limón, Costa Rica and has issue including:
- Lidia Lindo Acuña (1900-1980)
- Howard Lindo Acuña (1905-1958)
References
- ↑ Rodríguez, Guillermo Solera (1958). Beneméritos de la patria y ciudadanos de honor costarricenses (in español).
- ↑ Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. 1952.
- ↑ Rural Population Stability, Central Istrict of Turrialba Canton, Costa Rice. Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE.
- ↑ Rica, Costa (1923). Coleccion de leyes y decretos (in español). Imprenta Nacional.
- ↑ Rica, Costa (1923). Coleccion de leyes y decretos (in español). Imprenta Nacional.
- ↑ Botey, Ana María (2005). Costa Rica entre guerras: 1914-1940 (in español). Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica. ISBN 978-9977-67-945-7.
- ↑ Stewart, Watt (1964). Keith and Costa Rica: A Biographical Study of Minor Cooper Keith. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-0099-7.
- ↑ Pan American Magazine. 1913.
- ↑ Union, Pan American (1920). Bulletin of the Pan American Union. The Union.
- ↑ Vermont, Freemasons Grand Lodge of; LODGE, Freemasons VERMONT GRAND (1868). Proceedings of the M.W. Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Vermont. The Lodge.
- ↑ Rodríguez, Guillermo Solera (1958). Beneméritos de la patria y ciudadanos de honor costarricenses (in español).
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