Manuel Fernando Soto
This distinguished Hidalguense was born in the city of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, on June 5, 1825, his parents were Don Jose Antonio Soto and Mrs. Guadalupe Pastrana. He did his primary education next to the pedagogue Don Marciano Lezama in the private school that this had to end it and move to Mexico City and enrolled as an intern at the Theological Seminary, which was the rector Lic. Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. There he studied with use Latinidad, Philosophy and Civil and Canon Law.
Shortly after it was separated from the seminar that seriously ill from rheumatism and when it was restored and had revolutionary symptoms against the government established by their misguided provisions, and Mr. Soto dropped out because it was proposed to take an active part in public affairs, with to develop and implement their advanced liberal ideas.