Full text of "Don Vicente Martínez Ybor, the man and his empire : development of the clear Havana industry in Cuba and Florida in the nineteenth century"

The University of Florida's George A. Smathers Library is supported by LYRASIS and Sloan Foundation.

Document B: History of Ybor City Ybor City is part of the metropolitan area of ​​Tampa, Florida, born of three Spaniards who came to the "New World" in the 19th century: Gavino Gutierrez, Vicente Martinez Ybor, Ignacio Oha Ya Born moved to Cuba at the age of 14 in 1832. He later worked as a staff at a grocery store as a cigar salesman, and opened his own cigar factory in Havana in 1853. Due to Labor riots, high tariffs on Cuban cigars, and the beginning of the 1868 Cuba revolution, Ybor transferred his factory and workers to Key West, Florida. Although his business was successful, due to labor issues and the lack of good fresh water supply and transportation system to deliver his products he began to consider moving his business to a new place. Gavino Gutierrez came to America from Spain in 1868. These means of transport make it easier to import cigarettes from Cuba and distribute finished products.

Based on the author of "Yeoba City: Heaven of the Workers" the question: Scott Fields, McKeel Academy

In 1869, the Spanish cigar manufacturer Vicente Martinez Ybor moved the Princesses de Wales (Prince of Wales) business from an important cigar manufacturing center in Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, and escaped from the turmoil of ten years of war It was. Other manufacturers are behind, and Key West is another important cigar manufacturing center. In 1885, I purchased the land in a small city in Tampa, Florida, built the world's largest cigar factory in the new company town Ball City, and Iball moved again. Friendly competitors and Florde Sánchez and Haya Boss Ignacio Haya built their factories close to the same year, and especially after the fire of 1886 burned the majority of Key West, many other cigar manufacturers It followed soon. . Thousands of Cuba and Spanish cigarettes from Key West, Cuba, New York came to this area, producing hundreds of millions of cigars per year.