Ygnacio Coronel (1795–1862) was a settler in the

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of Mexican

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. He was a member of the

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Life

Jose Ygnacio Franco Coronel was born in

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, during the colonial

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period. He joined the Spanish army and by 1814 rose to the rank of corporal of the cavalry. He married Maria Josefa Francisca Romero (1802 –1871), a native of Toluca. In 1834, as a part of the Híjar-Padrés Colony, Ygnacio brought his family (two sons,

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and Manuel F. Coronel, four daughters, and his nephew

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) to

,C. Alan Hutchinson, ''An Official List of the Members of the Hijar-Padres Colony for Mexican California, 1834'', The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Aug., 1973), pp. 407-418, University of California Press. where he started a new life as a civilian. Ygnacio Coronel was a schoolmaster. His son, Antonio, married

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. In 1836, Coronel was appointed commissioner of the secularized

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. In 1837 he taught in the Pueblo de Los Angeles, and afterwards he was secretary of the Ayuntamiento (Los Angeles City Council). In 1843 he was granted

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. Ygnacio Coronel died in 1862, after the

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hood of

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in 1850.

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