José Mentor Guilherme de Mello (Brejo, Maranhão, September 18, 1880 - São Luís, Maranhão, September 15, 1928) was a colonel of the Brazil´s National Guard, an entrepreneur in the waterway transport business and an exporter. Son of Laureano Guilherme de Mello and Isabel Gomes de Oliveira Mello, with roots in traditional families of Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte, particularly of Mossoró, he worked in the boom of the Amazonia rubber extraction business, and later became a prominent exportation entrepreneur of plant leaves, of carnauba wax and of babassu and cotton seeds, and simultaneously an waterway transport businessman, in the Brazilian states of Piauí and Maranhão.
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18 September 1880 Brejo, Maranhao, Brazil
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Died |
15 September 1928 (aged 47) Sao Luís, Maranhao, Brazil
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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