[1] Jose Julio Henna Perez[2] was born at 24 Isabel street in Ponce, Puerto Rico,[1] on 24 May 1848.

[3] His parents were Jose Henna Darricot – an Englishman – and Maria del Rosario Perez y Garcia, a Puerto Rican member of the privileged upper class.

However, he was set free through the general amnesty which followed the Spanish revolution, which also ended the reign of Queen Isabel II.

Henna moved to New York and studied medicine at Columbia University, earning his medical degree on 23 February 1872.

He was laid to rest at Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro in Ponce, Puerto Rico.