Filipinos Gone to Ellis Island - aqwn03 - Generated by Ancestry Family Tree

Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Joseph SARGENT

resident of Oakwood, NY


Pres. Manuel Luis QUEZON Sr

arr via Lusitania 7/13/1908 "ethnicity Spain, Spanish"
via Oceanic 8/9/1911 "U.S. citizen" notation in ship's manifest; ethnicity "Pillipines"
via Aquitania 9/12/1924 w/ Sergio "Sergi" Osmena to Metropolitan Club Wash D.C.

1st President of the Philippine Commonwealth 1935-1944
member & Pres. Phil Senate 1916-1935
Pilipino member of U.S. Congress while U.S. Resident Commisioner to the Philippine Commonwealth (1909-1916)
Tayabas, Phil Governor 1906-1907
delegate to the 1st Phil Assembly
a lawyer (1903-1944), prosecuting attorney for Mindoro & Tayabas; Phil Army major, a member of Pres. Emilio Aguinaldo's staff during the Philippine-American War
"I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans"-Pres. Manuel Luis Quezon


Pres. Sergio OSMENA Sr

arr via Aquitania 9/12/1924 w/ Manuel Luis Quezon

President of Philippine Commonwealth (2nd) 1944-1946
Vice President Phil Commonwealth 1935-1944
Speaker 1st Phil Assembly 1907 (for 15 yrs)
Founder of the Phil Nationalista political party 1922
Cebu, Phil Gov 1907
Courier during Phil Revolution vs. Spain & Phil American War
a lawyer, UST grad
founder & editor of the Nuevo Dia (newspaper financed by his Veloso in-laws)
patriarch of the Osmena political clan of Senators (Sergio Jr, Sergio 3rd, John), Governor(Emilio "Lito"),Vice-Gov (John Gregory) Mayor (Thomas)and others
place named in his honor-Sergio Osmena Sr. Zamboanga del Norte phil


Estafania Chiong VELOSO

Eight children w/ Pres Osmena


Pres. Sergio OSMENA Sr

arr via Aquitania 9/12/1924 w/ Manuel Luis Quezon

President of Philippine Commonwealth (2nd) 1944-1946
Vice President Phil Commonwealth 1935-1944
Speaker 1st Phil Assembly 1907 (for 15 yrs)
Founder of the Phil Nationalista political party 1922
Cebu, Phil Gov 1907
Courier during Phil Revolution vs. Spain & Phil American War
a lawyer, UST grad
founder & editor of the Nuevo Dia (newspaper financed by his Veloso in-laws)
patriarch of the Osmena political clan of Senators (Sergio Jr, Sergio 3rd, John), Governor(Emilio "Lito"),Vice-Gov (John Gregory) Mayor (Thomas)and others
place named in his honor-Sergio Osmena Sr. Zamboanga del Norte phil