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The Guerra family is a prominent Californio family of Southern California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Members of the family held extensive rancho grants and numerous important positions, including numerous mayors of Santa Barbara , California Senators , a Lieutenant Governor of California , and a signer of the California Constitution .
María de las Angustias de la Guerra, known simply as Angustias de la Guerra, (June 11, 1815 – June 21, 1890) was Californio historian and socialite. A member of the prominent Guerra family of California, she played an important role in defending women's property rights in the California Constitution while it was being drafted during the Monterey Constitutional Convention of 1849. [1]
Antonio Maria de la Guerra, a member of the prominent Guerra family of California, was born in 1825 in Alta California, as the youngest son of José de la Guerra y Noriega an officer of the Mexican army. His father became a wealthy and influential man with extensive landholdings and a great house in Santa Barbara.
The Casa de la Guerra was the residence of the fifth commandant of the Presidio de Santa Barbara, José de la Guerra y Noriega, founder of the Guerra family of California (a prominent Californio family) from 1828 until his death in 1858. Descendants of José lived in the home until 1943.
The Father of All: The De La Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Mexican California, Louise Pubols, Huntington Library Press, hardcover published in 2015, 448 pages. Married To A Daughter Of The Land: Spanish-Mexican Women And Interethnic Marriage In California, 1820-80 , Marie Raquel Casas, University of Nevada Press, paperback published ...
A ‘good ‘ol American boy’ and a woman everyone loved. Days after the murder, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune interviewed Greg’s coworkers at the South Florida Sod Farm.
Play Along Logo. Play Along Toys was a Florida-based toy company, and a wholly owned division of Jakks Pacific. [1]In 1999, the founders of Play Along (among them Charlie Emby, Jay Foreman, and Larry Geller) chose the Britney Spears Doll line as the first licensing venture with their new company. [2]
Juan Luis Guerra, one of the Dominican Republic’s greatest artists, will debut his new HBO Concert special June 3 on HBO Latino and on streamer HBO Max, just in time for the latter’s June ...