Luis Antonio Argüello

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Luis Antonio Argüello
3rd
Governor of Alta California
In office
1822–1825
Preceded byPablo Vicente de Solá
Succeeded byJosé María de Echeandía
Personal details
Born(1784-06-21)June 21, 1784
Explorer, politician, soldier

Luis Antonio Argüello (Spanish pronunciation:

First Mexican Republic
(of 1824–1835).

Biography

Argüello was born at

Baja California
.

In August, 1806, Argüello succeeded his father as Commandant of California with the rank of lieutenant. In 1821, he launched an exploration of Northern California to investigate the rumors of "Foreigners" setting up a base.[2] Argüello published his expedition diary, titled The Diary of Captain Arguello: The Last Spanish Expedition in California, October 17 - November 17, 1821. He ordered retribution on hunters of the Russian-American Company who were catching sea otters in San Francisco Bay.[3] There were numerous sea otter populations to hunt and a lack of Spanish military posts above San Francisco Bay made it hard for Argüello to stop this northern activity and the possibility of them trading with the Spanish Missions.[3]

His brother was

Pueblo de San Diego. His sister Concepción Argüello (1791-1857) was noted for her romance with Nikolai Rezanov
(1764-1807), a Russian promoter of the colonization of Alaska and California.

Grave of Luís Antonio Argüello at Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) cemetery, San Francisco.

Argüello and his second wife

Maria Soledad Ortega de Argüello inherited his parents 35,240-acre (142.6 km2) Spanish Rancho land grant of 1795 named Rancho de las Pulgas, encompassing present day San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood City, Atherton, and Menlo Park
. Though Luis never actually lived there, his widow and children settled there after his death.

Josefa Arguello was one of his daughters, she married Eulogio de Celis, their son Eulogio F. de Celis became a predominant landowner in the San Fernando Valley.

Luis Antonio Argüello died in Yerba Buena (San Francisco) in 1830, and is buried at the Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) cemetery.

Governor

In 1822,

San Diego
.

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was served as the personal secretary to the new Governor Luis Argüello, when news of Mexico's independence reached Monterey. Argüello enrolled Vallejo as a cadet in the Presidio company in 1824. After being promoted to corporal, Argüello appointed Vallejo to the diputación, the territorial legislature. He was promoted to alférez (equal to a modern army second lieutenant).

In 1823, he granted Rancho Los Corralitos 15,440-acre (62.5 km2) in present-day Santa Cruz County, California to José Amesti. "Los Corralitos" means "the little corrals" in Spanish. The grant extended along Corralitos Creek north of Watsonville, and encompassed present-day Corralitos and Amesti.[4]

In 1823, Rancho Llano de Buena Vista, means "Good View Plain". 8,446-acre (34.18 km2) in the Salinas Valley was given by Argüello to José Mariano Estrada a lieutenant of the Mexican Artillery and in-law of Argüello.[5][6]

In 1823, Argüello gave a land grant of

Pueblo of San José.[5] The San Pablo grant covered what is now Richmond, San Pablo, and Kensington in western Contra Costa County.[7]

In 1823, Argüello gave a land grant of

Francisco Avila[5]

Argüello was Governor at the time of the

La Purisima Mission in the morning, intent on violently crushing the rebellion. Argüello, had had enough chaos in his country's new territory, and so had given the orders for the Chumash rebellion to be quelled with bloodshed, if necessary.[8][9]

In 1824, Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano was a 8,896-acre (36.00 km2) land granted in present-day Monterey County, California near Monterey Bay by Argüello to Ygnacio Ferrer Vallejo[5][10][11]

Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano was an 8,896-acre (36.00 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1824 by Governor Luís Antonio Argüello to Ygnacio Ferrer Vallejo, and confirmed to his eldest son, José de Jesús Vallejo, by Governor José Figueroa in 1834.[1] The name means "pocket of St. Cayetano". Pocket in this case usually refers to land surrounded by slough - in this case the Elkhorn Slough. The grant was bordered on the west by Monterey Bay.

Rancho Moro Cojo, that became part of Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo, in present-day Monterey County, California was granted by Governor Luís Antonio Argüello in 1825.

Antonio Maria Osio married Dolores Argüello, sister of Luis Antonio Argüello. In 1838, Osio settled in Monterey. In 1839, Governor Alvarado granted Osio, Angel Island (California), on the condition that Osio would set aside part of the island for a fort. However, Osio never took up residence there.

jack-of-all-trades, sometimes even acting as a physician, probably without any formal education, and is credited with introducing many agricultural products. Marín wrote to governor Luis Antonio Argüello about moving to Alta California, but was told his multiple wives would not be welcome in California.[12]

The 1840 rebuilt Mission San Francisco Solano circa 1910, last of the 21 missions
Stylized portrayal of the original Mission San Francisco Solano

In Argüello's tenure one new mission was founded:

Fort Ross on the Pacific coast from moving further inland and down the coast.[citation needed] General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
later closed the mission in 1834-1835, he took the roof titles for his own home, others joined in taking parts of the buildings and it turned to ruins, later being completely torn down. In need of a church for the town he made, in 1840 Vallejo had a small chapel built were the original parish church was.

Legacy

In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS Luis Argüello was named in his honor.

See also

  • List of pre-statehood governors of California
  • List of Ranchos of California
  • For the various branches of the last name in both the Western Hemisphere and in Spain see also Argüello

References

  1. ^ "Governors of California". San Diego Historical Society. Retrieved 2006-12-29.
  2. OCLC 26943462
    .
  3. ^ a b Owens, Kenneth N. Frontiersman for the Tsar: Timofei Tarakanov and the Expansion of Russian America. Montana: The Magazine of Western History 56, No. 3 (2006), pp. 3-21+93-94.
  4. ^ Diseño del Rancho Los Corralitos
  5. ^ a b c d Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
  6. ISBN 978-0-8047-4482-9
    .
  7. ^ Diseño del Rancho Rancho San Pablo
  8. JSTOR 27824841
  9. ISBN 0-89658-492-5
    .
  10. ^ Diseño del Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano
  11. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano
  12. hdl:10524/474
    .
  13. ^ Hubert Howe Bancroft (1885). History of California: 1801-1824(new mission established). History Company. p. 496.

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