Born on 13 August 1824, in São Francisco do Sul, SC, son of Salvador Gomes de Oliveira and Rita Clara de Miranda. He was a merchant in Parati (present-day Araquari). Around 1866 he moved to kilometre 17 of the Estrada Dona Francisca, near the Cubatão River. A slaveholding farmer and one of the largest slave owners in northern Santa Catarina, at one point holding more than 30 enslaved people on his sugarcane and cattle farm on the Cubatão River. On 30.01.1887 his farm on the Cubatão was raided by Xokleng people from the Serra do Mar. He retained part of his enslaved workforce until the Golden Law of 1888, when he was effectively ruined financially. He died on 4 April 1892, aged 67, in Joinville, SC.