Máximo F. Inocencio (18 November 1833-12 September 1896) was a Filipino architect and businessman involved in construction, shipping, trade and lumber.

Back in the Philippines, Inocencio resumed his business activities such as a building and bridge contractor, shipbuilder, sawmill operator, and wood deliverer.

His construction company built the Tejeros Bridge, the provincial capitol, the Cavite elementary and high schools, the cathedral and parochial house of San Pedro and the Inocencio mansion La Casa Grande.

He had three sailboats, Dos Hermanos La Luz, Amparo, and Aurea, which he used for hauling logs and transporting firewood from Mindoro, Mariveles, and from as far as Lagingmanok (renamed Padre Burgos), in Tayabas (now Quezon province) and also imported goods from China and Vietnam.

In 1895, he was one of the members of the junta inspectora of the Hospicio de San Jose in Cavite, an honorary office headed by the parish priest.

Bearing the Hong Kong-made first Filipino flag, Aguinaldo left La Casa Grande shortly after lunch on June 12, 1898, and headed to Kawit to proclaim Philippine Independence from the central window of his ancestral home.

[5] In his declaration, Alfonso de Ocampo revealed that Inocencio, Francisco Osorio, Aguado and Lapidario were the leaders of the planned uprising in Cavite.

He was among 13 Caviteños who were found guilty of rebellion on September 11, 1896, after a hasty trial by a Spanish military court lasting only four hours.

Their defense counsels were officers of the Spanish Army who immediately admitted their guilt instead of proving the insufficiency of evidence to convict them.

[7] At 12:45 p.m. the following day, the 13 convicts were brought out of their cells and taken to the Plaza de Armas outside Fort San Felipe, made to line up, kneel facing the wall, their hands tied at their back and executed by firing squad.

After the execution, bullet-ridden bodies were loaded into carabao-drawn carts and dumped in a common grave at the Catholic cemetery at the village of Caridad.

It is said of Inocencio that “with chisel and hammer he worked his way to wealth amassing one of the largest fortunes in the province.”[10] He had been variously described as a diligent and hard worker, and a charitable citizen who did not fail to lend a helping hand to the needy.