Eugenio Daza

Eugenio Daza y Salazar (1870- 1954) was a Filipino revolutionary.

Daza was born in Borongan, Eastern Samar, on 15 November 1870, to Juan Cinco Daza and Magdalena Campomanes Salazar. He married Carolina Cinco, from Catbalogan, Samar, and they had seven children: Gabriel, Carlota, Cirilo, Jesus, Rosario, Maria and Juan.

Records at the NHCM reveal that he earned a degree in education in 1888 at Escuela Normal de Maestros in Manila, a Jesuit institution, and taught at the Borongan Municipal School. After five years, he established his own school under Spanish administration.

During the 1896 revolution against Spain, he joined the revolutionary forces in Samar. During the Philippine-American war in 1899, Daza was appointed Commander of the revolutionary forces in Eastern Samar. 

He was one of the leaders in the Balangiga attack on September 28, 1901, where Filipinos succeeded against the American forces, in Eastern Samar. The Battle of Balangiga, which Daza architectured, was referred as one of the bloodiest chapter in the history of American Army in the Philipines and it won him the title as the Brain of the Balangiga massacre. In 1907, Daza was elected as Representative of the Samar's 3rd District to the First Philippine Assembly. 

Eugenio Daza, well known as Lolo Enyong, died at 84 in Calamba, Laguna, on December 16, 1954. He was buried in his home town, per his wish, and his remains were brought and buried in Borongan on December 29 of the same year. A bronze monument was built in his honour in Borongan.