Ignacio Eugenio Lozano Sr. (1886-September 21, 1953)[1] was born in Marín, Nuevo León on Mexico-Texas border.
He was a famous journalist of northern Mexico, but he joined the exodus into the United States during the Mexican Revolution.,[1][2] He moved to San Antonio and established a Spanish language bookstore and worked on two Spanish language periodicals.
[1] He founded La Prensa as a Spanish language daily newspaper in 1913.
[1][2][3][4] His granddaughter, Monica C. Lozano, would later say though La Prensa was not the first Spanish language daily, it became the largest.
[2][3][4] He and his wife, Alicia Elizondo Lozano, operated both papers,[4] the one in San Antonio, the other in Los Angeles.