Juan Ignacio Alviso (1772–1848) was a
Californio ranchero and soldier. He is the namesake of
Alviso, a neighborhood of the city of
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popu ...
.
Biography
Born in
San Miguel de Horcasitas
San Miguel de Horcasitas is a town in San Miguel de Horcasitas Municipality, in the Mexican state of Sonora. San Miguel is located in the center of the state at an elevation of 518 meters.
The settlement was founded in 1749 as a military fort. ...
in what is now the
Mexican state of
Sonora, three-year-old Ignacio left with his parents Corporal Domingo Alviso (1738–1777) and Maria Angela Trejo (1742–1803), brothers and sister in 1775 on the
de Anza Expedition
Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 6 or 7, 1736 – December 19, 1788) was an expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire. He is credited as one of the founding fa ...
to
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
. His father died a year following their arrival. Ignacio served as a soldier in the San Francisco Company from 1805 to 1819.
He married Maria Margarita Bernal (1781–1828).
In 1838 he was granted
Rancho Rincón de Los Esteros
Rancho or Ranchos may refer to:
Settlements and communities
*Rancho, Aruba, former fishing village and neighbourhood of Oranjestad
* Ranchos of California, 19th century land grants in Alta California
**List of California Ranchos
*Ranchos, Buenos A ...
.
He died in 1848 leaving a large estate.
Ignacio Alviso is the uncle of
José María Alviso
José María de Jesus Alviso (November 19, 1798 – June 18, 1853) was a Californio ranchero, soldier, and politician. He served as Alcalde of San José (mayor) in 1836 and was the rancho grantee for Rancho Milpitas. Alviso is considered the f ...
, an early ''
alcalde'' of San Jose. He is also the grandfather of Valentine Alviso, who was a member of the
California State Assembly (14th District) from 1881 to 1883.
The Political Graveyard
/ref>
See also
* Californios
* History of California through 1899
Human history in California began when indigenous Americans first arrived some 13,000 years ago. Coastal exploration by the Spanish began in the 16th century, with further European settlement along the coast and in the inland valleys following ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alviso, Ignacio
Californios
1772 births
1848 deaths
Land owners from California