Eduardo Madero [SEP] place of birth
Eduardo Madero
Eduardo Madero (1823 — 1894) was an Argentine merchant, banker and developer.
Life and times.
Eduardo Madero was born in Buenos Aires, in 1823, to a family of farmers. A nephew of publisher Florencio Varela, his uncle's enmity with the Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Juan Manuel de Rosas, led Madero to relocate to Montevideo, in neighboring Uruguay. Madero established an import-export business and following Rosas' 1852 overthrow, he returned - by then a prosperous merchant.
which established other nearby towns, and in which the Madero and Ramos Mejía families were shareholders. The Circunvalación and Fabricas settlements became known as "Villa Eduardo Madero" when the local train station was renamed in 1913 in honor of the former landowner's nephew, Eduardo Madero; Madero, who died in 1894, had developed what became known as Puerto Madero, the nation's first maritime docks.
The city's economy became relatively diversified; its manufacturing base is built on a number of tool and die makers, as well