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Haya papers, 1874-1935

 

Summary

Creator:
Haya, Ignacio (1842-1906)
Haya, Fannie (Fannie Milledoler Haya Sierra)
Extent:
0.21 Linear Feet
1 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Haya Family Papers, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

Contents of the collection include a marriage certificate, warranty deeds, and other papers belonging to Ignacio and Fannie Haya, dating from 1874 to 1932. The papers relate primarily to the management, purchase, and sale of properties belonging to Sanchez and Haya Real Estate.

Biographical / historical:

Born in Escalante, Santanter, Spain, December 8, 1842, Ignacio Haya originally moved to New York, where he built a cigar factory with partner Serafin Sanchez. After visiting the Tampa Bay area at the urging of Gavino Gutierrez, Haya and Sanchez moved their factory to Tampa, along with Vicente Martinez Ybor, to escape unionizing forces in New York and to take advantage of Tampa's warm, humid climate. Haya married Fannie Milledor in 1874. In addition to establishing the cigar industry in Tampa, Haya was instrumental in the creation of the Centro Español, a mutual aid society for Spanish immigrants, donating land and serving as the club's first president. Sanchez and Haya also created the Sanchez and Haya Real Estate Company in 1895 which was finally dissolved in 1935 following the death of Fannie Haya Sierra, Ignacio Haya's widow.

Fanny Milledolor married Ignacio Haya, noted cigar manufacturer, on March 6, 1874. After their only child died at birth, Ignacio and Fanny adopted the daughter of Ignacio's brother, Ramon, a two-year old girl named Marina. After Ignacio's death in 1906, Fanny became president of Sanchez and Haya Real Estate, notably the first female executive of a large corporation in Tampa. She donated land along the Hillsborough River to the city of Tampa as a park in 1928. Sanchez and Haya Real Estate was finally dissolved in 1935, following Fanny's death.

Centro Español de Tampa Collection, Special Collections Department, Tampa Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

National Park Service. Ybor City: Cigar capitol of the world. U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved from: http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/51ybor/51facts1.htm

Tampas first cigar factory. (1982.) Cigar City Collection, Special Collections Department, Tampa Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/SF70000339/00001

Westfall, L. Glenn. (1980). Ignacio Haya, pioneer cigar entrepreneur. The Sunland Tribune Journal of the Tampa Historical Society, 6 (1), pp. 12-14.

Note written by Bullers, K., 2012

Acquisition information:

Tommy Vance

Donation

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright.  Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Haya Family Papers, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Location of this collection:
The University of South Florida, Tampa Campus
4202 East Fowler Ave. LIB122
Tampa
FL
33620-5400
USA