Francisco Piria

Fernando Juan Santiago Francisco María Piria de Grossi (Montevideo, 21 August 1847 - 11 December 1933) was a Uruguayan inventor, alchemist, writer, politician and businessman of Italian descent.

Later he opened a workshop where he sold ready-to-wear clothing on the corner of Treinta y Tres and Rincón streets.

Endowed with an exceptional business acumen, which was not lagging behind his advertising inventiveness, he bought thousands of yards of thick fabric and had a kind of long capes made, which he named Rémington.

In 1912, the first auction of lots in Piriápolis was held and, from then on, the city began to grow with the construction of numerous villas.

[3] Francisco Piria died at the age of 86 at his home in Montevideo, suffering from pulmonary congestion, complicated by diabetes, uremia and heart weakness.