Dionisio Trillo

Dionisio Trillo (1822-1864) was an officer of the army and politician of Uruguayan origin. He participated in the Argentine and Uruguayan civil wars, integrating the ranks of the General Manuel Oribe.

Biography
Trillo was born in Montevideo (Uruguay), son of Ramón Trillo Font, a Spanish merchant, born in the area of Cartagena, and Josefa de Alfao, born in Barcelona. He began his military career, as a member of the Federal armies of Juan Manuel de Rosas, serving as Lieutenant in the Escuadrón de Dragones Orientales N.° 1 (Dragons Squadron No. 1). He was wounded and then detained during a confrontation between Unitarians and Federals, returning after his release to the city of Montevideo.

After being promoted to Colonel, Trillo served as Commander of the military detachments of the Uruguayan litoral (Río Negro and Uruguay River). Later he was appointed as police chief of the department of the Salto, where he had a distinguished performance.

In 1857, for an initiative of Colonel Trillo, was carried out in Salto, Uruguay, the Salto Company of River Steam Boat (in Spanish, Compañía Salteña de Navegación a Vapor), a shipping company of British capitals. The company commissioned for the construction of two steamboat, named Montevideo and Salto to the English shipyards T. & J. Thompson.

In 1852, Dionisio Trillo was married in the parish of Nuestra Señora del Carmen to Carmen Aguiar, daughter of Juan Bernardo Aguiar y Fernandez and Francisca Tejedor Tena, belonging to a distinguished Uruguayan family of Galician and Catalan roots. He and his wife were the parents of Enriqueta Trillo Aguiar, wife of Isabelino Canaveris, a military man, who had had an active participation in the Uruguayan civil conflicts.