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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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Did someone notable live on the corner of Figueroa and Jefferson Streets?
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To add to earlier posts on this: Just a quick note that, contrary to a notion popular in the early 1900s, Ramon Figueroa was
not a brother of California's governor Jose Figueroa. Gov. Figueroa
did have a brother (named Francisco), and that brother
did live in the greater L.A. area (he succeeded Gov. Figueroa as owner Rancho Los Alamitos, and sold it to Abel Stearns in July, 1842; Francisco was dead by 1856); and what's more Ramon Figueroa
did own the adobe in question at Jefferson and Figueroa; but Ramon Figueroa was not related to Gov. Figueroa, and the street was named after the governor, not after Ramon.
Ramon Figueroa (
Jose Ramon, to be precise) was a native Angeleno and was baptized April 9, 1806, at Mission San Gabriel (died after 1870, when he's still on the census rolls as a farmer); he did have two brothers: Salvador Ygnacio and Felipe de Jesus. Their father was Manuel Antonio Figueroa, born in Sinaloa ca. 1750, and present in California as a soldier at Mission San Francisco de Asis by July 1777; Manuel died near July 21, 1815, when his obsequies were celebrated at Mission San Gabriel.
Meantime, the Figueroas of which the governor was one were Mexican-born and did not come to California until 1833, after Jose was selected as governor. For those wanting more on him, the best biography of Governor Figueroa in my estimation is that found in the book
The Bandini Papers, p. 493, by, um, me.
