Juan Ignacio Alviso (1772–1848) was a
Californio
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ranchero and soldier. He is the namesake of
Alviso, a neighborhood of the city of
San Jose, California
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.
Biography
Born in
San Miguel de Horcasitas in what is now the
Mexican state
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of
Sonora
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, 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 a Novohispanic/Mexican expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire. He is credited as on ...
to
San Francisco
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. 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.
He died in 1848 leaving a large estate.
Ignacio Alviso is the uncle of
José María Alviso, an early ''
alcalde
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'' of San Jose. He is also the grandfather of Valentine Alviso, who was a member of the
California State Assembly
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(14th District) from 1881 to 1883.
The Political Graveyard
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See also
* Californio
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s
* History of California through 1899
References
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People of Alta California
1772 births
1848 deaths
Landowners from California
19th-century American landowners