Simeon Mobo Reyes, The Grandfather of Aklan

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Melchor F. Cichon

Sin-o ro greatest Aklanon?
Malisod, pero hara ro Akeanon nga pwede naton nga mapabugae gid.
Si Simeon Mobo Reyes (Sept. 22-1873- April 6-1951) taga-Poblacion, Lezo.

Ano ro ana nga naobra para sa kamaeayran it Akean? Take note that Aklan since the Spanish time until 1956 was still a part of Capiz.

1. Provincial secretary of Capiz.
2. Representative of the 3rd District (Aklan section) of Capiz
3. Municipal councilor of Kalibo
4. Presidente municipal (mayor) of Kalibo in 1913
5. Governor it Capiz
6. Member of the provincial board of Capiz for two terms.
7. Founder it Colegio del Santo rosario, a private school for boys in Aklan
8. Chairman of a committee charged with paving the way for a peaceful negotiations between the Americans and the local revolutionaries which resulted in the holding of a peace conference in Lezo in February 1901 between Captain Morton of the U.S. Army and Colonel Cavives of the revolutionary forces.
9. Delegate and spokeman from the Aklan Section of Capiz to the Taft Commission. It was here where he initiated the move to separate Aklan from Capiz.
If Goding Ramos is known as the Father of Aklan, Simeon Mobo Reyes could be called as the Grandfather of Aklan.

Mobo died a poor man. His remains were buried at the cemetery in Lezo, Aklan. A street in Lezo Poblacion was named after him.


Source: Town of A Thousand by Roman A. de la Cruz, 1993.