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Died in 1878 and was buried in the Mission Santa Barbara Cemetery. [2] 3 Joaquín Carrillo: 1851-1852 Grandson of José Raimundo Carrillo, he was born in 1813. Elected as mayor on 5/6/51. He was also Santa Barbara's first county judge, then judge of the Second Judicial District, and a member of the committee that named Santa Barbara's streets ...
Peter Josiah Barber (November 26, 1830 – January 27, 1905) was an American carpenter, architect, and prominent citizen of Santa Barbara, California.A native of Ohio, he was drawn to California during the Gold Rush in 1852 and settled in Santa Barbara in 1869, where he established himself as the city's foremost architect and served as postmaster and for two terms as mayor.
Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector bills, collects, invests, borrows, safeguards and disburses monies and properties in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appoints the treasurer to this position. The previous treasurer was Keith Knox. [1] The current treasurer is Elizabeth Ginsberg. [2]
Barbara Joans, 89, American anthropologist, cardiopulmonary failure. [191] Santosh Madhavan, 63, Indian religious leader and convicted sex offender, heart disease. [192] Dick Monteith, 92, American politician, member of the California State Senate (1994–2002). [193] Dimos Moutsis, 85, Greek singer-songwriter and composer. [194]
Santa Barbara (Spanish: Santa Bárbara, meaning ' Saint Barbara ') is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States excepting Alaska, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
The Santa Barbara County area, including the Northern Channel Islands, was first settled by Native Americans at least 13,000 years ago.Evidence for a Paleoindian presence has been found in the form of a fluted Clovis-like point found in the 1980s along the western Santa Barbara Coast, as well as the remains of Arlington Springs Man found on Santa Rosa Island in the 1960s.
PHOTO: People leave the Santa Maria Courthouse after two people suffered non-life-threatening injuries from an explosion at the courthouse in Santa Barbara County, Calif., Sept. 25, 2024.
A spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office conjectured that San Marco's paranoia and history of mental illness may have motivated her to commit the murders. [12] Racism was also a possible influence in the shooting, as six of the victims were minorities (three were black, one was Chinese-American, one was Hispanic and one was ...