{"id":14267,"date":"2021-10-14T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=14267"},"modified":"2021-10-14T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T19:07:10","slug":"davenporters-of-note-pete-macias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2021\/10\/14\/davenporters-of-note-pete-macias\/","title":{"rendered":"Davenporters of Note: “Pete” Mac\u00edas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month<\/a> we are featuring Pete Mac\u00edas, who died on June 10, 2021, at the age of 102. Mr. Mac\u00edas was interviewed by students at Smart Intermediate in 2006 for the Iowa Stories oral history project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His father Manuel and uncle David were the first employees from M\u00e9xico to work for the Bettendorf Company in the 1910s. They recruited 150 laborers at the El Paso\/Juarez border for the Bettendorf Company during World War I. They were also founding members of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Silvis, Illinois along with neighbors from the Silvis barrio, La Yarda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leandro “Pete” Mart\u00edn Mac\u00edas was born March 4, 1919 in Davenport, Iowa to Manuel Mart\u00edn Mac\u00edas and Mar\u00eda Guadalupe “Lupe” P\u00e9rez. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pete had 8 younger siblings: Rudolph “Rudy” (b. 1920), Luz “Louise” (b. 1921), Romiro “Rummy” (b. 1922), Lenore (b. 1924), Manuel (b. 1927), Raul “Roy” (b. 1928), Guadalupe “Lupe” (b. 1930), and Mar\u00eda “Mary” (b. 1935). The family lived in the barrio known as “Holy City” in Bettendorf during the Great Depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n