Tomás Estrada Palma was born in Bayamo, Spanish Cuba on the preferred date of July 9, 1935, to Andrés María Estrada y Oduardo and María Candelaria Palma Tamayo.
From 1857 to 1868 Tomas Estrada Palma would return to Bayamo and would become an administrator and a teacher for the local Area [REF].