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Rua José Bensaúde, FTM, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores

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House of José Bensaúde

José Bensúade (3/4/1835 - 10/20/1922) moved to São Miguel between 1847-50. His Father Abrahao Bensaúde owned a letter company in Rabat, Morocco.¹ The company went bankrupt before Jose moved to the Azores, but his interest in literature and culture remained in part due to the influence of his father’s work.² He married Rachel Hassan Benslimann and had 4 children who were all successful in their own merit.

Fabrica headquarters of Micaelense Tobacco was founded in 1866 by José Bensaúde along with Celente Joaquim da Costa, Jose Jacome Correia, and Abraham Nathan Bensaúde. This company employed 150 women and girls, 2 men and 2 boys. This company alone employed ⅔ of the female workers in São Miguel.³

Bensaúde was the only socio manager until the date of his death, holding, since the middle of the decade of eighties, the majority of the share capital. With the success of its countless investments, José Bensaúde and considered the largest industrial Acoriano of the nineteenth century. 

Cultivating a taste for travel and books, José was a personal friend of Antero de Quental, finding the poet living in his house when Quental committed suicide on 11 September 1891. He also lived here, after his retirement from the Instituto Superior Tecnico (which was founded in 1911). 

In 1928, for deliberation city council, the street of Santa Catarinaonde where the FTM business was established and Bensaúde lived, had its name changed to the Rua José Bensaúde.

Casa de Jose Bensaúde

Sede da Fabrica de Tabaco Micaelense fundada em 1866, porJose Bensaude (1835-1922) juntamente com Celemnte Joaquim da Costa, Jose Jacome Correia e Abraao Nathan Bensaude. Jose Bensaude foi o unico socio gerente ate adata da sua morte, detendo, desde meados da decada de oitenta, a maioria docapital accionista. Pelo sucesso dos seus inumeros investimentos, Jose Bensaudee considerado o maior industrial acoriano do seculo XIX. Cultivando o gusto pelasviagens e pelos livros, era amigo pessoal de Antero de Quental, encontrando seo poeta a residir em sua casa, quando se suicidou em 11 de Setembro de 1891.Tambem o aqui viveu, apos a sua aposentacao do Instituto Superior Tecnico (quefundra em 1911).

Em 1928, por deliberacao camararia, a rua de Santa Catarinaonde see estabelecera a Fabrca de Tabaco Micaelense e onde habitara Jose Bensaude e a familia, recebeu a designacao topocimica de Jose Bensaude.

São Miguel, Azores, Portugal

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