Remigio Crespo Toral

1860 – 1939

Remigio Crespo Toral (August 4, 1860 – July 8, 1939) was an Ecuadorian writer from Cuenca. Born in Cuenca, Ecuador, on August 4, 1860, into a well-known family of the region, Crespo Toral went to high school in the Seminary College of Cuenca, from 1873 to 1877, the year in which he entered the University of Cuenca, to study law and thus obtain a law degree, a fact that happened nine years later, in 1886. That same year he married Elvira Vega García (1868–1965), with whom he had ten children. In 1894 he was Director of Studies of Azuay Province. In the 1880s, he began his journalistic car