Ermelindo Salazar
Ermelindo Salazar Schuck was the interim Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from May to 10 July 1887. He filled the mayoral post between the resignation of mayor Ramón Elices Montes and the arrival of Fernando Diez de Ulzurrún y Somellera, who was appointed mayor by the Central Provincial Government.
Salazar Schuck was a merchant, landowner and banker, and is best remembered for his majestic residence in Downtown Ponce and which today is home to the Carmen Solá de Pereira Ponce Cultural Center. From 1959 to 1965, the building was the first home of the Museo de Arte de Ponce and from 1991 to 1996 it was the first headquarters of the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña.
Early years
Ermelindo Salazar Schuck was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, to Pedro Juan Salazar Fournier and Luisa Schuck.Landowner, merchant and banker
Salazar Schuck was a prominent landowner, merchant, and banker from Ponce. In his life as a merchant, in 1885, he founded the Ponce Chamber of Commerce.In the area of finance, Salazar became one of the directors, and later president, of Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño, one of the largest and oldest in the Island.