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Irukan, Santa Teresita, Batangas: Historical Data

Historical Data graphic
Historical data from the National Library of the Philippines.

Full transcription of the so-called “Historical Data” for the barrio of Irukan in the Municipality of Santa Teresita, Batangas, the original scanned documents at the National Library of the Philippines Digital Collections not having OCR or optical character recognition properties. This transcription has been edited for grammar, spelling and punctuation where possible. The original pagination is provided for citation purposes.

[Note to the reader.]

At the time when this document was created, the barrio of Irukan was still a part of Taal rather than Santa Teresita. The barrio would become part of the latter municipality in 1961, after the passage of Executive Order No. 454.

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HISTORY OF THE BARRIO OF IRUKAN

Formerly, long before the Spanish occupation of the Philippines, Irukan and Kalayaan were together as one barrio named Irukan. But later on, Kalayaan formed its own barrio separately from Irukan. This barrio, Irukan, got its name from its abundant product of iruk palms. Majority of the people of this place support themselves from these palms. Venigan, brooms, and iruk sweets come from this product.

The succeeding barrio lieutenants in Irukan were:

 1.  Flaviano Dimaano1888-1891
 2.  Apolinario Tolentino1892-1895
 3.  Marcelino Villanueva1896-1899
 4.  Gregorio Balasbas1900-1903
 5.  Marcos Mendoza1904-1907
 6.  Vicente Dimaano1908-1911
 7.  Apolinario Tolentino1912-1915
 8.  Jose de Ocampo1916-1919
 9.  Mariano Salazar1920-1923
10. Bernardo de Ocampo1924-1927
11. Leonardo de Ocampo1928-1931
12. Manuel Villanueva1932-1935
13. Segundo Tolentino1936-1939
14. Jose Salazar1940-1943
15. Fernando Mendoza1944-1953

The succeeding barrio lieutenants for Kalayaan were:

 1.  Francisco Mendoza1920-1923
 2.  Jose Enriquez1924-1927
 3.  Silvestre Agonia1928-1931
 4.  Jose Alcancia1932-1935
 5.  Simon Tordecilla1936-1939
 6.  Roman Marquinez1940-1946
 7.  Alfredo Enriquez1947-1953
Notes and references:
Transcribed from “History of the Barrio of Irukan,” 1953, online at the National Library of the Philippines Digital Collections.
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