About Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta
Lived 1812 – 1897 (aged 85). Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta was a Chilean philanthropist.
Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta (; 12 September 1812 – 4 December 1897) was a Chilean philanthropist.
Biography Carmen Quiroga Darrigrande was born on 18 September 1812 in San Juan de la Puntilla, Monte Patria to Juan Bautista de Quiroga and Antonia Darrigrande. The subsequent hospital, the , was donated by Quiroga to the Ecclesiastical Authority of Santiago and was officially opened in January 1887.
Through her daughter Josefa Amalia Urmeneta de Errázuriz (née Urmeneta Quiroga), Quiroga was the mother-in-law of Maximiano Errázuriz Valdivieso and was the grandmother of José Tomás Errázuriz, Amalia Errázuriz de Subercaseaux and Rafael Errázuriz Urmeneta.
Quiroga died on 4 December 1897 in Recoleta, Santiago.
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Chilean philanthropist (1812–1897)
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Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta was born on 12 September 1812.
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Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta died on 4 December 1897.
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Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta was a philanthropist.
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Carmen Quiroga de Urmeneta was Chilean.
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