Biography of Filipino nationalist leader Jose Rizal by Herbert S. Bigelow, an officer of the Cincinnati Anti-Imperialist League.

Jose Rizal en traje de Colegial THE FOREMOST ATENEAN Jose Rizal was born, the seventh child of Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonso, on June 19, 1861. His parents belonged to the middle class and lived on the tenant land ownedby the friars in Calamba, Laguna. In his early childhood, Rizal was under the tutorship of his mother who taught him the three Rs. He mastered the alphabet at the age ...