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Home News Ybor relative gets a treasure: account of great-granddad's fortune

Ybor relative gets a treasure: account of great-granddad's fortune

Saturday, January 01 2011

By John Barry, Times Staff Writer | tampabay.com Rafael Martinez-Ybor

Tampa's last Ybor recently was asked to come by Tampa Antiquarian Books to check out a carton from Cuba. It appeared to be full of century-old papers related to his great-grandfather, Vicente Martinez-Ybor, the founder of Ybor City, eulogized as the Great Benefactor when he died on Dec. 14 114 years ago.

Great-grandson Rafael Martinez-Ybor, 81, met up at the bookshop with Andy Huse, a librarian in special collections at the University of South Florida. Huse asked him to look through the box from Cuba — and to pay extra attention to one item.

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