Masó,son of a Catalan father and a Cuban-born mother from Bayamo,was born in Yara on a farm named "Cerca Pie";later he moved with his parents to the coastal city of Manzanillo. He was educated at the Convent of Santo Domingo. As a young man put his activities in the service of commerce,and cultivated his interest in literature,also composing verses.
When in 1867 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes,Francisco Vicente Aguilera and other began to conspire ways to look at the independence of Cuba,Masówas one of the first who joined the cause. On 10 October 1868,when he thought the moment had come and took off with his two brothers,he met Céspedes in La Demajagua and took part in the unsuccessful uprising of Yara. He was involved in the attack and capture of Bayamo and to the liberation struggles in Jiguaní,Báguano,Rejondón,Bermeja and other places.[1]
Shortly after the death of Céspedes,Masówas elected as representative of the department of Oriente;and when Tomás Estrada Palma was elected delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC),named him Secretary of War after the death of JoséMartí. When Estrada Palma was imprisoned he returned into the armed forces,as brigadier general.
In September 1895,meeting the revolutionaries of the Asamblea de Jimaguayú (Assembly of Jimaguayú),Masówas elected vice president of the "Republic in Arms". Two years later,on 30 October 1897,he met the revolutionary government in La Yaya,where he was elected president. He held this office until 7 November 1898.[2][3]
Portrait of Cuban independence leader BartoloméMasóMárquez,painted circa 1898 by American artist Henry Washburn Berthrong,who served as U.S. customs official in Manzanillo,Cuba.
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