Francisco Martínez Negrete Alba, 1848-1906: una biografía empresarial tapatía

Abstract

This store is about the business career of one of the most oustanding men of the financial elite of Guadalajara during the second half of the XIXth Century, a businessman who was born in a golden cradle and forging his personal and family fortune at the beginning od the Porfirio Diaz Regime. His business activities contributed to the modernization of the Guadalajara region. He participated in establishing a series of companies and assumed his father’s responsibilities in others. He also played an active role in de region, together with important local entrepreneurs. Whithout a doubt, he was an important part of a complex business netwok wich included in laws –who were also businessmen themselves– and the most influential entrepreneurs of those years.