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The Workman–Temple family relates to the pioneer interconnected Workman and Temple families that were prominent in: the history of colonial Pueblo de Los Angeles and American Los Angeles; the Los Angeles Basin and San Gabriel Valley regions; and Southern California from 1830 to 1930 in Mexican Alta California and the subsequent state of California, United States.
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
Antonio Maria Lugo (1778–1860) was born at Mission San Antonio de Padua in present-day Jolon, California, the seventh son of Francisco Salvador Lugo.After 17 years of service at the Presidio of Santa Barbara, in 1810 Corporal Lugo received his discharge and settled with his family in the Pueblo de Los Angeles.
Don Manuel Domínguez e Ybáñez (1803–1882) was a Californio ranchero, politician, and a signer of the California Constitution in 1849. He served as two terms as Alcalde of Los Angeles (mayor).
Juan María Sepúlveda was born in 1824 in Los Angeles, to Francisco Sepúlveda II and María Teodora Ramona Serrano. He served as the 2nd Los Angeles County Assessor, from 1857 to 1858. [16] He was elected as a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, serving from 1853 to 1854. [17]
William M. Mason, historian of Los Angeles and early California, uncovered the ethnic richness of the Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles through extensive research.Mason, one of three founders of the Los Angeles Historical Society, authored six books and several articles regarding the early history and cultures around Southern California and he is credited with helping to uncover the ethnic ...
Mayor of Santa Monica and as the last City Marshal of Los Angeles, California [21] Gil Cisneros: born 1971 Los Angeles, California, U.S. politician [22] Antonio F. Coronel: 1817–1894 Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain (now Mexico) politician, ranchero served as Mayor of Los Angeles and California State Treasurer: Ygnacio Coronel: 1795–1862
The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's Letters of 1852. Southwest Museum Papers Number 21. Highland Park, Los Angeles. Reid, Hugo. (1852), The Indians of Los Angeles County Archived December 12, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, full text available online at Library of Congress; Johnson, J. R. Ethnohistory of West S.F. Valley, CA State ...