Juan Luis Boscio Explained

Juan Luis Boscio Desprez
Office1:Member of the Puerto Rico Senate from the Ponce district
Term Start1:1940
Term End1:1941
Order2:125th
Office2:Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Term Start2:1961
Term End2:1964
Predecessor:Carlos Juan Cintrón
Successor:Eduardo Ruberté Bisó
Birth Date:21 June 1896[1]
Birth Place:Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
Death Place:Ponce, Puerto Rico
Nationality:Puerto Rican
Party:PPD
Spouse:Herminia Monllor Long
Children:Roberto, Jose Luis, Gladys
Profession:Merchant ("Almacenes Monllor y Boscio")[2]

Juan Luis Boscio Desprez (21 June 1896[3]  - 3 September 1980[4]) was a Puerto Rican merchant and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1961 to 1964. During his tenure as mayor, in 1962, a major shopping mall opened in the city called Centro del Sur which, at the moment of its opening was "the most modern in the Caribbean".[5]

Early years

Boscio Desprez was the son of Juan Bautista Boscio-Cofresí and Eugenia Desprez Boudon. He was born on 21 June 1896 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. He married Herminia Monllor on 23 December 1922[6] and they had 3 children: Roberto (b. abt. 1925), Jose Luis (b. abt 1926), and Gladys (b. abt. 1928).[7] [8]

Philanthropist

Juan Luis Boscio was one of the founders of the Albergue de Niños de Ponce (Ponce Children's Shelter), a non-profit organization dedicated to the providing shelter for homeless children. The shelter building opened in 1947 on the north side of Calle Villa in Barrio Canas, between Calle Cementerio Civil and Calle Central.[9] Boscio also donated $10,000 from his own capital to help pay for the project.[10] Albergue de Niños later moved to the south side of Calle Villa, past Jaime L. Drew School, east of PR-500.

Death

Boscio Deprez died on 3 September 1980 from an "aortic insufficiency and heart failure."[11] He was buried at Cementerio Católico San Vicente de Paul in Ponce.[12]

Indictment of son

In the early 1980s, Juan Luis Boscio Monllor, son of Juan Luis Boscio Desprez, (aka, Juan Luis Boscio, Jr.) was president of the board of directors of the Ponce Municipal Development Authority (PMDA) during the tenure of mayor José G. Tormos Vega. His son, Boscio Monllor, was indicted on 31 October 1985, by a federal grand jury for extortion, together with mayor Tormos Vega. He was tried on 27 May 1988.[13]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9100/004537070_01582?pid=2370118&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj50&_phstart=successSource Death Certificate. No. 819. (Area 152. Year 1980. Register 252.).
  2. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9100/004537070_01582?pid=2370118&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj50&_phstart=successSource Death Certificate. No. 819. (Area 152. Year 1980. Register 252.).
  3. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9100/004537070_01582?pid=2370118&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj50&_phstart=successSource Death Certificate. No. 819. (Area 152. Year 1980. Register 252.).
  4. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9100/004537070_01582?pid=2370118&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj50&_phstart=successSource Death Certificate. No. 819. (Area 152. Year 1980. Register 252.).
  5. Carmelo Rosario Natal. Ponce En Su Historia Moderna: 1945-2002. Published by Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2003. p. 58.
  6. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9100/004537305_00324?pid=2520213&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D9100%26h%3D2520213%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPDj52%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26requr%3D2550866976735232%26ur%3D262144%26lang%3Den-US&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj52&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true Certificate of Marriage.
  7. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2404/33084_265210-00140?pid=1592676&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D2404%26h%3D1592676%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPDj69%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj69&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true Juan Luis Bossio (sic) in the Puerto Rico, Social and Population Schedules, 1935-1936.
  8. See also "1930 United States Federal Census."
  9. https://archivonacional.com/PL/1/1/5853 Ciudad de Ponce y Playa. (Map)
  10. Luis Fortuño Janeiro. Album Histórico de Ponce (1692-1963). Page 172. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta Fortuño. 1963.
  11. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9100/004537070_01582?pid=2370118&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj50&_phstart=successSource Death Certificate. No. 819. (Area 152. Year 1980. Register 252.).
  12. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9100/004537070_01582?pid=2370118&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj50&_phstart=successSource Death Certificate. No. 819. (Area 152. Year 1980. Register 252.).
  13. http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/959/959.F2d.1103.88-2235.89-2022.89-1253.html 959 F.2d 1103. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jose TORMOS-VEGA, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Juan Luis BOSCIO, Defendant, Appellant. (Nos. 88-2235, 89-1253 and 89-2022. United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit. 21 Jan. 1992.)

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