The Parsons Trading Company

Salvador Alvarado was born on 16 September 1880, in Culiacán, Sinaloa. As a young man, he moved to the port of Guaymas, Sonora, and then to Cananea, Sonora, where he opened his own pharmacy and worked for several years as a pharmacist and merchant. In 1906, he joined the Partido Liberal Mexicano (Mexican Liberal Party) of the Flores Magón and in 1910 joined the Anti-Reelectionist Party in Sonora. In the same year, he and other young idealists attacked a military barracks in Hermosillo. After its failure Alvarado escaped into Arizona.

He recrossed into Mexico to join the revolution in 1911 and steadily climbed the military ranks from Major to General. He fought with Huerta against Orozco but when Huerta seized the presidency Alvarado joined Carranza, who promoted him to Brigadier General and Commander of the Army of the Southeast.

On 27 February 1915, Carranza named Alvarado Governor and military commander of Yucatán. His forces had little difficulty in putting down the rebel movement and by 19 March 1915 Alvarado had arrived in the capital of Mérida. Alvarado claimed that he had passed over 1,000 decrees during his three-year tenure as governor, with an emphasis on social, education and legal reforms and freeing the Maya from debt servitude. He cancelled their indenture debts with the landowners and established laws for women and child laborers, including domestic workers, defining maximum hours, minimum pay, mandatory rest periods, health and safety standards, and prohibitions on immoral employment. His vision was to change the almost feudal hacienda system into a capitalist system converting the peones into true proletarian workers who were paid wages and in turn would increase production for the henequen plantation owners.

In 1917, Carranza appointed Alvarado Chief of Military Operations for Southeast Mexico, which required that Alvarado spend many months away from Mérida. In November 1918, Alvarado was permanently recalled by Carranza.

Alvarado, along with Adolfo de la Huerta, Alvaro Obregón, Plutarco Elías Calles and Benjamín G. Hill, was part of the Sonora faction (los Sonorenses) that became disillusioned with Carranza. In 1919 he founded a newspaper, El Heraldo de México, which he used as a platform to discuss intellectual ideals. These political activities angered Carranza, who had him arrested. He was released in January 1920 and exiled to the United States. Returning from exile, Alvarado and other of Los Sonorenses joined Obregón's Plan of Agua Prieta in April 1920.

Following Carranza's assassination and Adolfo de la Huerta's election as the Interim President of Mexico on 1 June 1920, Alvarado was named Secretary of the Treasury. De la Huerta had inherited an almost bankrupt government, and Alvarado made numerous trips to New York City to secure funds through both loans and publicity of Yucatecan henequen.

In 1921 Alvarado left the Treasury and in 1923 supported his childhood friend, de la Huerta against Obregón. With the defeat of de la Huerta’s rebellion, Alvarado tried to flee to Canada, the United States, and then Guatemala, but was relentlessly pursued by Obregón's men. He was ambushed while fleeing from Obregón's force at El Hormiguero ranchero, between Tenosique, Tabasco and Palenque, Chiapas and was killed on 10 June 1924.

Victor M. Cintra was by profession an accountant. In 1908 he advertised himself as a Tenedor de Libros (Practica toda clase de trabajos de contabilidad, cuya corrección garantiza) ^{El Agricultor, 1 September 1909} and in 1912 was paid as an expert to consider a case of fraud in the El Aguila petroleum company^{Periódico Oficial, 11 September 1912}.

As such he was the Contador in the Tesorería General but acted en funciones de Tesorero General during this period, for which he was later paid $600 oro nacional for his extraordinary work^{Periódico Oficial, 19 February 1918}.

He was still recorded as a Tenedor de Libros in 1921^{Directorio de la Ciudad de Mérida, 1921} and 1924^{Directorio de la Ciudad de Mérida y sus colonias 1924: contiene el comercio de Campeche, Laguna y Progreso, 1924}.

Julio Rendón Alcocer was born In Mérida in 1864. He was a lawyer, teacher and journalist. He was director of the Revista de Mérida and later worked on the Diario de Yucatán under the editorship of Carlos R. Menéndez. He was on the Merida city council and deputy to the Yucatan Congress.

Rendón’s brother, Serapio, also a journalist, was a supporter of Madero who, together with Belisario Domínguez, headed a group of legislators who opposed Huerta and, for his pains, was assassinated on 22 May 1913.

Rendón was appointed by Alvarado manager of the Comisión Reguladora and later was director of the rail company, Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán. In August 1917 he opened a banking business at 2a calle de Capuchinas, número 40, Mexico City. It offered all types of banking with correspondents in the United States and Mérida^{El Pueblo, 25 August 1917}.

He was also a professor at the Regional School of Teachers (Escuela Normal de Profesores de Yucatán) and a director of the State Literary Institute (Instituto Literario del Estado).

He died in Mérida in 1949.