Ignacio Eugenio Lozano Sr. (1886-September 21, 1953) [1] was born in Marín, Nuevo León on Mexico- Texas border. He was a famous journalist of northern Mexico, but he joined the exodus into the United States during the Mexican Revolution., [1] [2] He moved to San Antonio and established a Spanish language bookstore and worked on two Spanish language periodicals. [1]
He founded La Prensa as a Spanish language daily newspaper in 1913. [1] [2] [3] [4] His granddaughter, Monica C. Lozano, would later say though La Prensa was not the first Spanish language daily, it became the largest. [2]
He founded La Opinión in Los Angeles, home of La Prensa's biggest readership, in 1926. [2] [3] [4] He and his wife, Alicia Elizondo Lozano, operated both papers, [4] the one in San Antonio, the other in Los Angeles. After his death from cancer [1] in 1953, his son Ignacio E. Lozano Jr. took over as publisher at La Opinión and his widow returned to San Antonio to keep La Prensa in business for ten more years., [1] [2]
Personal life
He was married to Alicia Elizondo de Lozano, who kept La Prensa running after his death, until she sold it in 1959. [2] They had two children: Ignacio Eugenio Lozano Jr. (born 1927) and Maria Alicia Lozano (born 1923), who moved to Mexico City as a married woman. [2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Handbook of Texas Online
- ^ a b c d e f g Interview of Monica Lozano by Shirley Biagi, Pg.1, Washington Press Club Foundation, 13 December 1993 Archived 15 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Hernandez, Sandra: "Stuck in Translation," LA Weekly, 17 June 1999
- ^ a b c Ruiz, Vicki and Virginia Sanchez Korrol: Latinas in the United States: a historical encyclopedia, Volume 1, Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-253-34681-0