About Isaac Delgado
Lived 1839 – 1912 (aged 72–73). Isaac Delgado was an American businessperson.
Isaac Delgado (c. 1839–1912) was a businessman and sugar dealer who migrated from Jamaica to New Orleans in the late nineteenth century. His success in business made him sufficiently wealthy to become a significant benefactor with philanthropic interests in the arts, medicine, and education.
He founded the New Orleans Museum of Art, originally called the Isaac Delgado Museum.
The current fifty-seven-acre City Park Campus of Delgado Community College in New Orleans was originally established in 1921 as Delgado Central Trades School, a manual trade school for young boys. The land was purchased with funds bequeathed by Delgado to the City of New Orleans in 1909.
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Who was Isaac Delgado?
American businessman
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Isaac Delgado was born in 1839.
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Isaac Delgado died in 1912.
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Isaac Delgado was a businessperson.
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Isaac Delgado was American.
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