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The Spanish Crown granted the 75,000 acres (300 km 2) of land to soldier Juan José Domínguez in 1784, with his descendants validating their legal claim with the Mexican government at 48,000 acres (190 km 2) in 1828, and later maintaining their legal claim through a United States patent validating 43,119 acres (174.50 km 2) in 1858.
Juano G. Hernández (July 19, 1896 [3] [4] – July 17, 1970) was a Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was a pioneer in the African American film industry. He made his silent picture debut in The Life of General Villa, and talking picture debut in an Oscar Micheaux film, The Girl from Chicago, which was directed at black audiences.
Juan Hernández Saravia (1880–1962), Republican officer in the Spanish Civil War; Juan Hernandez (political advisor) (born 1955), American political adviser; Juan Alonso Hernández Hernández (born 1960), Mexican politician; Juan Orlando Hernández (born 1968), President of Honduras from January 2014 to January 2022
Juan Miguel Anzar was the grantee of Rancho Los Aromitas y Agua Caliente in 1835. Juan Miguel Anzar (-1852) married María Antonia Castro. When Juan Miguel Anzar died in 1853, he held title to Rancho Los Aromitas y Agua Caliente, Rancho Santa Ana y Quién Sabe, Rancho Real de los Águilas and Rancho Los Carneros. His widow, María Antonia ...
He died before the grant was approved and the lands went to his son-in-law, José Antonio Yorba and his grandson, Juan Pablo Peralta. On July 1, 1810, the land later named Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana was granted to José Antonio Yorba and his nephew Pablo Peralta by Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga on behalf of the Spanish Government.
Rancho San Antonio, also known as the Peralta Grant, was a 44,800-acre (181 km 2) land grant by Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá, the last Spanish governor of California, to Don Luís María Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Army and later, commissioner of the Pueblo of San José, in recognition of his forty years of service.
Marta Duron Hernandez died Wednesday at the age of 87 after a successful career as city tax assessor-collector and decades of public service.
In 1900 Hernández began his political career when he became probate clerk and recorder in Tierra Amarilla. In 1904 he was elected county sheriff of Rio Arriba County and served for two years. From 1908 to 1912 he served as county treasurer and tax collector. In 1912 he was appointed receiver in the State Land Office in Santa Fe. During his ...