José Camprubí

José Aymar Camprubí
Born	November 28, 1879 Ponce, Puerto Rico
Died	March 11, 1942 (aged 62) New York, New York
Nationality	Puerto Rican American
Occupation	Spanish language newspaper publisher
Years active	1918-42
Organization	La Prensa
Spouse(s)	Agnes Ethel Leaycraft
Relatives	Zenobia Camprubí (sister)

José Augusto Luis Raimundo Aymar Camprubí (November 28, 1879 – March 11, 1942) was a pioneering Spanish-language newspaper publisher in the United States and an advocate of cooperation between North America, South America, and Spain.

Camprubí was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, which was then a Spanish colony, to Raimundo Camprubí Escudero and Isabel Aymar y Lucca de Camprubí. His father, a Catalan civil engineer, was working in Puerto Rico for the Spanish colonial government, supervising the construction of the Ponce-Coamo road. When he was still an infant, Camprubí was taken by his parents to Spain, and he grew up in Barcelona.

Camprubí came to the United States in 1896 and studied at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. He went on to Harvard, where he received an A.B. degree in 1901 and a B.S. degree in civil engineering in 1902.

Camprubí’s early career followed his training in civil engineering. He represented the firm of Stone & Webster in Boston, El Paso, Texas, and Terre Haute, Indiana before joining the Public Service Corporation in Newark, New Jersey. He was subsequently employed by the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad during the construction of the Hudson Tubes, the railway tunnels beneath the Hudson River linking Manhattan and northern New Jersey. In 1912 to 1914, he represented General Electric in Buenos Aires.

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