Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta
Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta | |
|---|---|
| Born | Carmen Quiroga Darrigrande 18 September 1812 San Juan de la Puntilla, Monte Patria, Captaincy General of Chile, Spanish Empire |
| Died | 4 December 1897 (aged 85) Recoleta, Santiago, Chile |
| Spouse |
José Tomás Urmeneta García
(m. 1831; died 1878) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Maximiano Errázuriz Valdivieso (son-in-law) José Tomás Errázuriz (grandson) Amalia Errázuriz de Subercaseaux (granddaughter) Rafael Errázuriz Urmeneta (grandson) |
Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta (née Quiroga Darrigrande; 12 September 1812 – 4 December 1897) was a Chilean philanthropist.[1][2]
Biography
Carmen Quiroga Darrigrande was born on 18 September 1812 in San Juan de la Puntilla, Monte Patria to Juan Bautista de Quiroga and Antonia Darrigrande.[2]
As president of various religious and aid societies, Quiroga contributed to the founding of churches and homes for the poor.[2]
Following the death of her husband in 1878, Quiroga had a hospital built in Limache in his memory.[3][4] The subsequent hospital, the Hospital Santo Tomás de Limache, was donated by Quiroga to the Ecclesiastical Authority of Santiago and was officially opened in January 1887.[4]
Personal life
In 1831, Quiroga married José Tomás Urmeneta García, a businessperson, politician, collector, and philanthropist.[1][3] Quiroga and Urmeneta had three daughters.[3]
Through her daughter Josefa Amalia Urmeneta de Errázuriz (née Urmeneta Quiroga), Quiroga was the mother-in-law of Maximiano Errázuriz Valdivieso and was the grandmother of José Tomás Errázuriz, Amalia Errázuriz de Subercaseaux and Rafael Errázuriz Urmeneta.[5][6][7][8]
Quiroga died on 4 December 1897 in Recoleta, Santiago.[2][9]
References
- 1 2 "Ficha razonada: Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta". Museo Nacional Bellas Artes (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 Figueroa, Pedro Pablo (1901). Diccionario biográfico de Chile. Vol. 3 (4th ed.). Impr. y encuadernacion Barcelona. pp. 19–20. OCLC 6954676.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - 1 2 3 "Reseña Biográfica José Tomás Urmeneta García". Reseñas biográficas parlamentarias (in Spanish). Valparaíso: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
- 1 2 "Patrimonio Hospital Santo Tomás de Limache". Servicio de Salud Viña del Mar - Quillota. 2 March 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
- ↑ Ramírez Errázuriz, Verónica (21 March 2018). "Amalia Errázuriz de Subercaseaux". Christian-Muslim Relations Online 2. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers. ISSN 2451-9537.
- ↑ "Reseña Biográfica Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña". Reseñas biográficas parlamentarias (in Spanish). Valparaíso: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
- ↑ González Valencia, Andrés J. (2014). "Urmeneta, un vecino de Limache que dejó huellas". Boletín histórico de la Sociedad de Historia y Geografía de Chile (in Spanish). 11 (3). Quilpué, Chile: La Sociedad de Historia y Geografía de la Provincia de Marga-Marga: 133–136. ISSN 0719-2754. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
- ↑ "Reseña Biográfica Rafael Errázuriz Echaurren". Reseñas biográficas parlamentarias (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
- ↑ "Carmen Quiroga Darrigrande". Chile, Civil Registration, 1885-1903: Santiago: Recoleta: Defunciones 1897: 48. 1897.