Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition Series 2):
SEPTEMBER 11, 1875
Francisco Ortigas Sr. (September 11, 1875 - November 1935), a lawyer and the patriarch of the Ortigas family was born in Porac, Pampanga.
He was a scholar at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran and finished law at the University of Santo Tomas.
Together with Rafael del Pan and Frederick Fisher, they opened the Ortigas, del Pan and Fisher Law Office.
He founded Ortigas and Company, Limited Partnership in 1931 and acquired the 4,033 hectare estate, Hacienda de Mandaloyon.
He married Julia Vargas de Ortigas and was the father of Francisco Ortigas Jr.
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