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History of Ramos

During the middle part of the nineteenth century, waves of Ilocano immigrants came from Santa Narvacan, Batac attracted by the fertile plains in this part of the province, settled in this locality. The region was not far from the hilly where grasses were plentiful and along the creeks, a tree called “Bani” with medicinal properties grew in abundance.

The settlement prospered and came to be identified with this medicinal tree and through constant usage, eventually became formally known as “Bani” forming one of the barrios of the town of Paniqui.

Bani residents had long wanted to have their barrio became a town. Paniqui, seven kilometers away, which ran their administration, seemed too remote to look after the barrio’s welfare. To travel long distance to transact business in the town hall was too much trouble for the villagers who thought their barrio could sufficiently run its own affairs.

When the Philippine revolution flared-up many Bani residents responded to the call of arms, including Don Bernabe Oteysa, chief local campaigner for the Katipunan Movement. The volunteers banded themselves, under the command of Commandante Alejandro Tolongan of Pura, maintaining their headquarters at Sitio Bangkag under District No. 5 from where they were sent as reinforcement to Balintawak and Calumpit, then at Tarlac and finally in Dagupan. When the American administration was finally established with the appointment of Don Alfonso Ramos as Tarlac first Provincial Governor, barrio leaders led by Carlos Filieu, Vicente Mauricio and Magdalino Linsao submitted a petition signed by the Bani villagers to the Provincial Board of Tarlac requesting the creation of their barrio into town. The request was a dismal failure on the ground that the petition lacks the necessary items to meet all the board’s requirements. Repeated petition by the residents thereafter followed in succession, but to no avail, failed. It was not until second gubernatorial term of Don Manuel de Leon, the Bani became formally a town in 1919 renamed Bani to Ramos in taken of memory of their benefactor Don Alfonso Ramos, who first initiated the move.Don Car;os Felieu, who spearheaded the move, then becomethe town’s first Presidente Municipal (1921) along with Pio Cabañeroas Vice Presidented Municipal. Nicasio Reginaldo, Fransisco Ilingan and Luis Aquino as Municipal Councilors.

Among the early settlers in the area were brothers Vicente, Paulino and Alfonso Mariano, Silverio Oteysa, Carlos Filieu, Valentin Nolasco, Paulino Baydin, Claro Caspe, Federico Balabat, Benidicto Marañon and Maximo Mangabat. The last name who became the first Cabesa de Barangay. Others like Maximo Ramos and Alejo Macaraeg settled in nearby vicinity not far from Bani, by grazing cattle’s and the area years later, became known as “Coral Iloco”. Still another group headed by Miguel Bacting, Joseph and Crisanto Tanduan, Baldomero Reguindin, Gavino Francisco and Benidicto Marañon, settled in a locality a kilometer away from Bani and is now known as Toledo.