Juan Manuel Canaveris

Juan Manuel Canaveris y Denis
Procurator of Buenos Aires
Personal details
Born May 10, 1804
Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
Died May 2, 1868
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Argentine
Political party Partido Federal (Lomo negro)
National Party
Spouse(s) Carmen Gutiérrez Moxica
Occupation Politician
Merchant
Profession jurist
Military service
Allegiance Argentine ConfederationArgentine Confederation
Service/branch Argentine Army
Years of service 1819-1821
Rank Captain
Unit Regimiento de Húsares
Battles/wars Argentine Civil Wars
Uruguayan Civil War

Juan Manuel Canaveris (1804-1868) was an Argentine jurist and politician, who served in Buenos Aires and Montevideo as attorney, teacher and military man. He participated of the escort of honor in the funerals of Manuel Dorrego,[1] and collaborated in the early days of government of Juan Manuel de Rosas.[2]

Biography

List of officers who participated in the Funeral Honors to the General Manuel Dorrego

Canaveris was born in Buenos Aires, son of José Canaveris Esparza and Agustina Denis Silva, belonging to a traditional family. He made his secondary studies in the National College and was graduated in law possibly at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1819 he was enlisted in the Argentine Army, serving as a cadet in the Húsares de la Union Regiment. Two years later he was retired from active duty with a rank of Ensign.[3] Time later he was reincorporated and promoted to Captain, serving in the procession that accompanied the remains of Manuel Dorrego to the Cemetery of Recoleta.

Possibly Juan Manuel Canaveris has participated on the end of the War of Independence. His incorporation into the army is mentioned in a letter written by the General José Rondeau to Ignacio Álvarez Thomas.[4] In his military career Canaveris had served in the Montoneras, a paramilitary militia commanded by Juan Manuel de Rosas.[5]

In 1823, Canaveris devoted himself to teaching, serving as assistant in the Escuela de la Piedad (School of Piedad), in replacing Lucas Fernández. The Escuela de la Piedad was an educational establishments located in the neighborhood of San Nicolás.[6]

Between 1830 and 1835, Canaveris had held the position of fiscal of the city.[7] In 1833, he was appointed alternate member of the jury responsible to guarantee press freedom in the republic. The jury was composed of leading figures of the time as Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, Miguel de Azcuénaga, Tomás de Anchorena and José Canaveris (his father).[8]

Canaveris belonged to the faction of the Federal party called as "Lomos Negros",[9] group led by Juan Ramón Balcarce, who opposed the granting of extraordinary powers to Juan Manuel Rosas as governor of Buenos Aires.[10] Pursued by supporters of Rosas, Canaveris was forced into exile in Montevideo, where he continued his political activities. In 1837 he traveled to Europe returning from Cadiz to Port of Montevideo on 28 December of the same year.[11] In 1839 he participates in meetings organized by Juan Bautista Alberdi and Valentín Alsina where was treated the problem of the French blockade of the Río de la Plata.[12] During the Great Siege of Montevideo, Canaveris tried to pass to the ranks of Manuel Oribe, being degraded to the rank of soldado raso with destiny to the Fortaleza del Cerro, a fact which caused him great pain because of his high social status.[13]

In Uruguay, Canaveris suffered persecution by supporters of the Colorado Party, due to his sympathy for the Partido Blanco. Interested in his situation Justo José de Urquiza sent a letter to Joaquín Suárez, who answered with a message addressed to Urquiza himself, expressing his total refusal to lend aid to Captain Canaveris.[14]

Juan Manuel Canaveris also was dedicated to trade and import, had a warehouse in the Catedral street 153 (now San Martín).[15] Canaveris had maintained business relations with the Hodgson & Robinson Co, textile importers from Manchester in Buenos Aires.[16] His business was located in the vicinity of the Faunch Hotel, an English establishment built in the neighborhood of San Nicolás. This place was known as "el barrio inglés", due to the large number of citizens of that nationality who inhabited the neighborhood.[17] In 1807, James Coyle had installed the first English tailoring of Buenos Aires.[18] In that neighborhood also worked the British financial institution known as Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata, established in Buenos Aires, around 1860.[19]

In 1826 Canaveris Denis was interested in acquiring hectares near the Salado River, in the current town of Bragado (Buenos Aires Province).[20]

As a lawyer he had taken part in the lawsuit against Antonio María Taboada, an Argentine politician who participated in the May Revolution of 1810.[21] After the trial against Taboada, Juan Manuel Canaveris wrote the book entitled Litis sobre un derecho de Tercería opuesto á la finca de propiedad de D. Antonio Maria Taboada, published in the printing press of J. A. Bernheim in 1856.[22]

Family

Juan Manuel Canaveris was baptized on May 11, 1804 in the Church of La Merced by the friar Miguel Posadas, being his godparents Alberto Crespo and Catalina Denis.[23] He was the third son of José Canaveris and Agustina Denis, a woman of Irish ancestry belonging to the family of Anton Denis, born in Limerick, towards the end of the 16th century.[24] His relative Bernabé Denis, was procurator of Buenos Aires during the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Canaveris was the brother of Feliciano Canaveris Denis assassinated by order of Manuel Oribe during the Civil War.[25]

He married on August 21, 1842 in The Parish Church of St. Francis of Assisi, with María del Carmen Gutiérrez, born in Montevideo, daughter of Juan Gutiérrez and Lorenza Moxica, belonging to an Uruguayan family of Spanish origin.[26] Canaveris and his wife were the parents of Sara Emilia, married to Miguel Bustos, Ángel, Juana, Haydeé, Elia Canaveris (wife Agustin Bayá, co-founder of Bolsa de Comercio),[27] Samuel Gerardo and Carmen Francisca.

Samuel Canaveris accompanied by Messrs. Sáenz and Gowland, edition of the Caras y Caretas of December 16, 1899

Gerardo Samuel Canaveris Gutiérrez was baptized with that name for being born on September 24, the feast day of St. Gerard.[28] He did his elementary studies at Seminario Anglo-Argentino of Buenos Aires, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires[29] where he graduated with the title of lawyer.[30] He was one of the first employees of the Casa de Moneda de la República Argentina.[31] His wife was Alina Fornaguera, daughter of Dolores Portela and Rufino Fornaguera,[32] (son José Fornaguera),[33] vice-president of the municipal committee of Quilmes.[34]

In 1895, Samuel Canaveris was neighbor of his relative Héctor Canaveri, being both settlers in the Cuartel 01 of Quilmes,[35] populated at that time by a small community of Englishmen, who were established in the area since the 1830s.[36] Around 1900, Samuel Canaveris settled in the Patagonia where he was a member of the Deliberative Council of Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz.[37] His family was linked to the Máximo Gowland, both reservists in Cura Malal, Coronel Suárez (Buenos Aires Province).[38] His son Carlos Manuel Canaveris Fornaguera was student in the Escuela de Maquinistas Navales (School of Naval Engineers) directed by Carlos B. Massot, a Captain of fragata, who served as Consul of the Argentine Republic at Newport, Wales.[39] He carried out an improvement course in Barrow-in-Furness, (United Kingdom).[40]

Carmen Canaveris Gutiérrez

Manuel Canaveris and his wife made frequent trips to Europe including the city of Genoa, where his son Ángel Canaveris (doctor of psychiatry) was born in 1847.[41][42] After being received at the University of Buenos Aires, Ángel Canaveris Gutiérrez was settled in Montevideo in the year 1873.[43]

His daughter, Haydeé Canaveris Gutiérrez was married to Pedro Vicente Acevedo, son of Pedro José Acevedo and Teresa Echevarría. He was grandson (maternal line) of Vicente Anastasio Echevarría, Secretary of the Assembly of Year XIII. She and her husband lived for a time in the city of Pergamino, birthplace of Pedro Acevedo.[44]

Canaveris and Carmen Gutiérrez were the grandparents of Sara Bustos Canaveris, married to Enrique E. Yateman, son of Enrique Yateman Collins and Edelmira Carranza Viamonte, descendant of Juan José Viamonte (governor of the Province of Buenos Aires on two occasions).

Through his maternal grandmother María Prudencia Silva,[45] daughter of Antonio de Silva and Francisca de Merlo,[46] Juan Manuel Canaveris was descendant of Francisco Alejandro de Merlo de Lafuente, a Captain who served in the Fort of Buenos Aires, related to the family of Francisco López Osornio.[47]

Canaveris were related to important Argentine families such as Ortiz Alcalde and Mayer's, belonging to the families of Félix Ortiz Alcalde (Colonel of the Argentine Army) and Alejandro Mayer Arnold, a French military man of English and German roots, who participated in the Argentine civil war.[48]

Juan Manuel Canaveris died at the age of 64 on May 2, 1868, being witnesses Emilio Achinelly (his relative) and Tomás Quincke,[49] a citizen belonging to the German community. He had lived until the day of his death in the same block[50] that his grandfather Don Juan de Canaveris.[51]

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