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𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗘S 𝗢𝗙 𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘 𝗟𝗨𝗞𝗕𝗔𝗡 𝗬 𝗥𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗦, 𝟭𝟴𝟲𝟬-𝟭𝟵𝟭𝟲

Gene Kervin S. Borja II

On this day in 1860, 165 years ago, revolutionary leader and politician General Vicente Lukban y Rilles was born in Labo, Camarines Norte. His parents were Agustin Lukban and Andrea Rilles. He took his early education in his hometown at the Escuela Pia Publica, then went to Ateneo Municipal de Manila and later, at University of Santo Tomas and the Colegio de San Juan de Letran for his Bachelor of Laws. Lukban then became affiliated to Marcelo H. Del Pilar and other patriots and was thereafter the official criminalista in the Court of the First Instance. Moreover, he worked as Delegado Municipal and Juez de Paz back in Labo.

Lukban left government service in 1896 and pursued business and agricultural activities. He pioneered the agricultural society La Cooperativa Popular which sought to help small and medium scale producers increase their income by selling their products without passing through middlemen. Some of the profits of the cooperatives were discreetly remitted to the Katipunan.

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ADDITONAL INFORMATION:

RJAA- The Lukbans have their roots in Camarines Norte and, ultimately, in Tayabas. Some accounts even claim their ultimate place of origin was Lucban town.

As claimed in the clan’s website, the Lukbans have many known and stellar descendants. These range from revolutionaries (Vicente), politicians (Justo, a mayor of Manila in the 1910s, and Cayetano), Jose Lukban (a 1960s era NBI director) and, interestingly, the 80s-90s singer Pops Fernandez, whose mother was a Lukban and a star in her own right (Dulce Lukban).

Leyte-based historian Emil Justimbaste has also written a biography of Vicente Lukban, especially his stint as the representative of Aguinaldo’s government in Samar and Leyte (along with Caviteno Ambrosio Mojica).