Manuel Enrique Rionda, 1877-1950.
Records, 1892-1943.
.4 linear ft. (1 box)
Businessman.
Born 1877 the only child of Joaquin Rionda y Polledo. His mother,
Sophie Benjamin Rionda, died in childbirth. He was one of Manuel
Rionda y Polledo's oldest nephews and was called "Manolo" by his uncle
and aunts and "Pete" by his cousins. He graduated from Columbia University's
School of Engineering in 1900 and promptly joined his uncle in Czarnikow,
MacDougall. He became a vice president when the company was reorganized
in 1909 under the title, the Czarnikow-Rionda Company. He also served
as a director or officer in the W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining and Molasses
Co., the Francisco Sugar Company, the Manati Sugar Company, and several
other sugar firms. He lived in Alpine, New Jersey, and was
elected its mayor in 1932 and served into the mid-1940s. He married
Ellen Goin in 1911; they had no children. Rionda died February 9,
1950 while on a business trip to Cuba.
This small series contains
business and family correspondence. Included in the family correspondence
are letters from his grandfather, several aunts, and cousins.
A few letters from the outgoing correspon-dence for 1938-1943 document
his tenure as mayor of Alpine. The business correspondence concerns
his involvement with the Manati Sugar Company, the Warner Sugar Company,
and the Tropical Plant Research Foundation. (His correspondence can
also be found in Series 10, 12,
and 74.)
Contents
Family correspondence
George Braga, 1942
Bernardo Rionda, 1904-1905
Letter to Manuel and Harriett Rionda,
1892
Letters from Aunt Ysidora and Aunt
Ramona, 1907
Letters from Aunt Harriett, 1911;
1925
Letters from Conchita Jorcano Rionda,
1900-1905
Letter from his wife, Ellen Goin
Rionda, 1925
Outgoing letters, 1938-1943
Sugar statistics--Cuban and international,
1922
Tropical Plant Research Foundation
Correspondence and newsletters,
1926
Articles of incorporation and projects,
1926
Audit report, 1926
Tuinucu Sugar Company, 1926
Ulzurrun, E.D.--Manati Sugar Company,
1926
Warner Sugar Refining Co., 1926