Eladio Vergara y Vergara

Eladio Vergara y Vergara (1821–1888) was a Colombian writer, historian, chronicler and cultural administrator of the nineteenth century. He is best known for his work on colombia historial and literary institutions, his works on the Capilla del Sagrario de Bogotá and the epic poem "Guerra de Neo-Granada" first introduced in the political magazine "La Matricaria" created by prestigious writer Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara, his brother.

He was the son of Ignacio Manuel de Vergara, who preceded him as mayordomo-tesorero of the Capilla del Sagrario. Vergara belonged to a prominent New Granadan family deeply embedded in ecclesiastical, cultural, and intellectual life since the colonial period.

He received a classical education typical of Bogotá´s learned elites in the mid-nineteenth century, grounded in latin and ecclesiastical history and large colonial archives.

Eladio was also related by blood to General Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera. Served Colombia as Secretary of Finance of the State of Cauca