TY  - ADVS
TI  - Felipe Tionko de Loiz
KW  - Men and women in politics and government
KW  - 1906
KW  - bridges
KW  - government
KW  - infrastructure
KW  - municipal president
KW  - negros occidental
KW  - police force
KW  - politics
KW  - public works
KW  - representative men
KW  - roads
KW  - silay
KW  - tramway line
KW  - visayans
KW  - visayas
KW  - wharf
KW  - yriarte
N1  - It was under the direction of Tionko de Loiz, the municipal president of Silay around 1906, that the first wharf in the town was built. Tionko also built a tramway line, roads, and bridges, and reorganized the police force to make it more effective. Municipal president of Silay, Negros Occidental (c. 1906), under whose direction the first wharf of the town was built. He likewise installed the town''s tramway line, constructed bridges and roads, and reorganized the municipal police force, making himself the nemesis of vagrants, gamblers and idlers. Originally from Molo, Iloilo, where he was born in 1866, he settled in Silay at the age of 18 after finishing his education in Manila; With prints
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