Don Jose Antonio Maria Lugo Martínez

Antonio Maria Lugo (1775 - 1860) was born at Mission San Antonio de Padua in Jolon, California, the youngest son of Francisco Salvador Lugo. Corporal Antonio Maria Lugo, after seventeen years of service at the Presidio of Santa Barbara with the Royal Spanish Army, received his discharge and settled with his family in Los Angeles in 1810. Antonio Lugo was granted the Spanish concession Rancho San Antonio in 1810, and was confirmed in 1838 by Mexican Governor Juan Alvarado. Rancho San Antonio encompased today's Lynwood, Pico Rivera, Montebello, La Puente, South San Gabriel, San Marino and part of East Los Angeles.

Antonio Lugo was granted Rancho Santa Ana del Chino in 1841 by governor Alvarado. Lugo was the Alcalde (Mayor) of Los Angeles in 1816.

Antonio and Dolores Lugo had five sons, José del Carmen Lugo, José Maria Lugo, Felipe Lugo, José Antonio Lugo, and Vicente Lugo and three daughters, Vicenta Perez, Maria Antonia Yorba, and Merced Foster.

Location: San Bernardino County, California

Named after Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), a Franciscan and a Doctor of the Church. He is revered as protector Saint against infertility, and is the patron Saint of the poor, of Padua, and of Portugal. He was the most famous of the followers of St. Francis and is credited with many miracles. It is believed that this peak name was given by Antonio Marfa Lugo (1778-1860), possibly on the Saint's feast day-June 13 (1841). The Lugo's were an illustrious local Californio family. Antonio's father, Francisco, was with the Rivera y Moncada expedition (1774), and stood guard at the founding of el pueblo de los Angeles (1781). During Antonio's administration as Alcalde, the pueblo grew slowly from a twin of the small Gabrieleño Indian village of Yang na that it displaced, to a fiesty hamlet numbering 1,250 souls that was frequently at odds with either Monterey or Mexico City (1840). LA's first college, Saint Vincents (now Loyola-Marymount), began with Antonio's son, Vicente. Later, Antonio's daughter Maria would marry Stephen C. Foster, the first American Mayor (1847). The Lugo's were so prolific that many of today's Angelenos claim them as ancestors. Antonio Lugo, born at Mission, San Antonio de Padua in Monterey, and was christened there by Saint Junipero Serra (1713-84), always felt a closeness with his namesake and certainly had many examples of this name all about him. For example, a ship named San Antonio bore the first contingent of the sea division of the Sacred Expedition that colonized Alta California (1769). Lugo also named one of his holdings after the Saint: the 29,513 acre (Mexican Land Grant) Rancho San Antonio (1810), which was located southeast of and adjacent to el pueblo. The Lugo home is still standing in present day Bell-Gardens, which itself was named after Major Horace Bell (1830-1918), whose name was also given to a number of other Southland communities.

Source http://angeleschapter.org/hps/signatures/16e.htm

Marriage 1 Maria Dolores Dominga RUIZ

   * Married: 17 Jan 1796 in , Santa Barbara, Alta CA

Marriage 2 Maria Florentina Jesus GERMAN

   * Married: 8 Mar 1842 in Mission San Gabriel, Los Angeles, Alta CA 

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