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(Teodoro R. Yangco)
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Early Life and Education
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Yangco was the only child of shipping magnate Luis R. Yangco and Ramona Arguelles Vda. de Corpuz. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1880. He enrolled in the law program at the University of Santo Tomas for one year, but his father encouraged him to pursue a commercial degree instead of law. Yangco studied business in Madrid for a year but left disgusted and moved on to Ealing College, a small school in West London, where he lived between 1882 and 1886.
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Business Ventures
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Upon returning to the Philippines in 1887, Yangco worked for his father to learn the business from the ground up. As a self-made entrepreneur, Luis Yangco did not provide his son any special favors and, in fact, verged on
being overbearing.  A salaried employee, Yangco clerked and slowly worked his way up to manager after a 10-year apprenticeship. His father garnished his wages during that time, using that money to construct a private department store, Bazar Siglo XX (Twentieth Century Bazaar), in Teodoro's name.
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Teodoro Yangco, foremost philanthropist of his time, was born on November 9, 1861, in San Antonio, Zambales