Fortino Jaime
Fortino Jaime Ibarra, was a Mexican publisher, literary promoter, printer, bookbinder, and bookseller.
Biography
His parents were Pablo Jaime and Basilia Ibarra. He studied Elementary School in Hostotipaquillo. Later moved to Guadalajara to continue his studies, and in 1897, when he was 14 or 15 years old, he was already one of the most distinguished students of the Conciliar Seminary of Guadalajara, where he obtained the highest marks and medals of honor in Grammar, Latin, and French.In 1900 he left his studies at the seminary and immediately established a stationery business that was attended by his sisters Daría and Rafaela. In 1911 he made himself known as a publisher with a reissue of the Memorias de Don Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, written by the journalist Adolfo R. Carrillo in San Francisco, California. The following year he associated with a friend named Padilla and two years later they published the newspaper El Vacilón. The first issue of this publication came to light on 6 December 1914. However, it was not successful and soon ceased to be published, at the same time as the "Jaime y Padilla" society disintegrated.
In 1915, Fortino associated with Aurelio Cortés, a merchant of the Guadalajara downtown Mercado Corona, with whom he established a grocery store and miscellany located on Calle Corona, an establishment that burned down.
His "literary salon"
Aurelio Cortés and he re-installed their store under the name "Árbol de Navidad". Their business was located at Juárez and Corona, a place that was known in Guadalajara for its wide assortment and for the care and attention by its owners. Some Guadalajaran personalities used to pay visits to the concern; amongst them were the following: politician Manuel Martínez Valadez, painter Ixca Farías, Carlos Gutiérrez Cruz, author Agustín Basave y del Castillo Negrete; priests De la Cueva, Amando J. De Alba, and Severo Díaz Galindo used to go to that store;, poet Enrique González Martínez, novelist Agustín Yáñez, Adrián Puga, Alfonso Manuel Castañeda;, first rector of the University of Guadalajara, in 1925–1926; Francisco Ayón Ceballos, Agustín Bancalari, and Jorge Bartolomé y Campos.Fortino, a publisher
In addition to attending his commercial concern, Fortino, a.k.a. «Don Fortis», served as a counselor to the Guadalajara National Chamber of Commerce in 1916. By 1918, when the partnership with Cortés had disintegrated, Fortino Jaime transferred his "Árbol de Navidad" to Avenida 16 de Septiembre #238. Active and dynamic, he never neglected his editorial duties. On 4 November 1918, he finished the printing of the first issue of the Revista Azul, Magazine Miniatura del Hogar, whose edition and publishing continued until 1920, and whose collection today is appraised at high prices. Another treasure in that year was el Libro de Ensayos Críticos, by Agustín Basave y del Castillo Negrete.In 1918, he installed a printing shop and a bookbinding table at the back of his store, where publications such as Anáhuac, Misterios del Corazón, El alma de las cosas, by Amando J. De Alba; El hombre y la Arquitectura, by Agustín Basave; and Memorias Tapatías, by José Ignacio Dávila Garibi were published. Likewise, a series of legal publications such as the Código de Procedimientos Civiles del Estado de Jalisco, la Ley de Hacienda del Estado, y la Ley Agraria, among others, were edited by the Fortino Jaime press. In 1919 from the presses of Fortino Jaime came a book written by the gentle and cordial Marquis of San Francisco, : Bocetos de la vida social en la Nueva España. By 1928, the Fortino Jaime printing house, "Árbol de Navidad", changed location again: it was located at Calle Morelos 487, where two other precious and enlightened writers began to attend: and Ramiro Villaseñor y Villaseñor. Almost at the end of 1947 the store moved to its last residence: an old house at the corner of 151 Belén and Juan Manuel Streets, in Guadalajara.