El Cajon is a city in San Diego County,California,United States,17 mi (27 km) east of downtown San Diego. The city takes its name from Rancho El Cajón,which was in turn named for the box-like shape of the valley that surrounds the city,which is also the origin of the city's common nickname of "the Box".
Don Pío de Jesús Pico was a Californio politician,ranchero,and entrepreneur,famous for serving as the last governor of Alta California under Mexican rule. A member of the prominent Pico family of California,he was one of the wealthiest men in California at the time and a hugely influential figure in Californian society,continuing as a citizen of the nascent U.S. state of California. His legacy can be seen in the numerous places named after him,such as the city of Pico Rivera,Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles,Pio Pico State Historic Park,and numerous schools that bear his name.
Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was a Californio general,statesman,and public figure. He was born a subject of Spain,performed his military duties as an officer of the Republic of Mexico,and shaped the transition of Alta California from a territory of Mexico to the U.S. state of California. He served in the first session of the California State Senate. The city of Vallejo,California is named after him,and the nearby city of Benicia is named after his wife.
Abelardo Rodríguez Luján,commonly known as Abelardo L. Rodríguez was the Substitute President of Mexico from 1932 to 1934. He completed the term of President Pascual Ortiz Rubio after his resignation,during the period known as the Maximato. Former President Plutarco Elías Calles then held considerable de facto political power,without being president himself. However,Rodríguez was more successful than Ortiz Rubio had been in asserting presidential power against Calles's influence. To date,Rodríguez is the only Mexican to have been brigadier general,president,and governor of two different states.
The Mormon Battalion was the only religious unit in United States military history in federal service,recruited solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit designation. The volunteers served from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848. The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 534 and 559 Latter-day Saint men,led by Mormon company officers commanded by regular U.S. Army officers. During its service,the battalion made a grueling march of nearly 2,100 miles from Council Bluffs,Iowa,to San Diego,California.
Rosario Marin is a Mexican-American politician who served as the 41st Treasurer of the United States from August 16,2001,to June 30,2003,serving under President George W. Bush. She is the first person since William Clark to assume the post without having been born a United States citizen. She is the only foreign-born Treasurer of the United States.
George A. Cowles was a 19th-century American businessperson,founder of banks,companies,and a railway,and Southern California landowner.
Tomás Jesús Yarrington Ruvalcaba is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI. He held office as the Mayor of Matamoros from 1993 to 1995,and the Governor of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005. Yarrington sought nomination for the presidential elections for the PRI in 2005.
William Alexander Leidesdorff,Jr. was one of the earliest biracial-black U.S. citizens in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco. A highly successful,enterprising businessman,he was a West Indian immigrant of African Cuban,possibly Carib,Danish/Swedish and Jewish ancestry. Leidesdorff became a United States citizen in New Orleans in 1834. He migrated to Alta California in 1841,then under Mexican rule,settling in Yerba Buena,a village of about 30 Mexican and European families.
Eugenio Elorduy Walther is a Mexican politician. He was governor of his adoptive state of Baja California from November 1,2001 thru October 31,2007. His wife Elena Blackaller served as first lady.
Charles Fletcher Lummis was a United States journalist,and an activist for Indian rights and historic preservation. A traveler in the American Southwest,he settled in Los Angeles,California,where he also became known as an historian,photographer,ethnographer,archaeologist,poet,and librarian. Lummis founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian.
Taylor Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer based in El Cajon,California,and is one of the largest manufacturers of acoustic guitars in the United States. They specialize in acoustic guitars and semi-hollow electric guitars. The company was founded in 1974 by Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug.
Juan Bautista Rogers Cooper was a 19th-century pioneer of California,who held British,Mexican,and finally American citizenship. Raised in Massachusetts in a maritime family,he came to the Mexican territory of Alta California as master of the ship Rover,and was a pioneer of Monterey,California,when it was the capital of the territory. He converted to Catholicism,became a Mexican citizen,married the daughter of the Mexican territorial governor,and acquired extensive land holdings in the area prior to the Mexican–American War.
Rancho El Sur was a 8,949.06-acre (36.22 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County,California on the Big Sur coast given in 1834 by Governor JoséFigueroa to Juan Bautista Alvarado. The grant extended from the mouth of Little Sur River inland about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) over the coastal mountains and south along the coast past the mouth of the Big Sur River to Cooper's Point. In about 1892,the rancho land plus an additional 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of resale homestead land was divided into two major parcels. The southern 4,800 acres (1,900 ha) became the Molera Ranch,later the foundation of Andrew Molera State Park. The northern 7,100 acres (2,900 ha) formed the El Sur Ranch.
Rancho El Cajón was a 48,800-acre (197 km2) Mexican land grant in present day San Diego County,California given in 1845 by Governor Pio Pico to María Antonia Estudillo de Pedrorena. The name means "the box" in Spanish,and refers to the valley between hills. The grant encompassed present day El Cajon,Bostonia,Santee,Lakeside,Flinn Springs,and the eastern part of La Mesa. The grant contained the 28-acre (0.11 km2) Rancho Cañada de los Coches grant.
The Mexican Secularization Act of 1833,officially called the Decree for the Secularization of the Missions of California,was an act passed by the Congress of the Union of the First Mexican Republic which secularized the Californian missions. The act nationalized the missions,transferring their ownership from the Franciscan Order of the Catholic Church to the Mexican authorities.
Quirino Ordaz Coppel is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as the Governor of the state of Sinaloa from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as a federal deputy for the VIII Federal Electoral District of Sinaloa from August 29,2015,to March 1,2016.
On September 27,2016,Alfred Olango,a 38-year old former refugee from Uganda,was shot and killed by police responding to a 911 call occurred in El Cajon,California,United States. He died later that day in a hospital. Officers on scene claimed to have believed Olango was pointing a firearm;the object in his hand was an e-cigarette. The shooting sparked days of protests in El Cajon and around San Diego County.
Gerardo González Valencia is a Mexican suspected drug lord and high-ranking member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG),a criminal group based in Jalisco. He is part of a clan that heads a CJNG money laundering branch known as Los Cuinis. He was allegedly responsible for coordinating international money laundering schemes by using shell companies to purchase assets in Latin America,Europe,and Asia. His wife Wendy Dalaithy Amaral Arévalo was reportedly working with him on this large money laundering scheme when the couple moved from Mexico to Uruguay in 2011.
JoséAbrego arrived in Alta California in 1834 as a member of Compania Cosmopolitan A,part of the Hijar-Padrés colony. It was led by JoséMaria Hijar and Don JoséMaria Padrés. Abrego became a merchant in Monterey,California and held a variety of political offices. He served as treasurer of the territory from 1839 to 1846. After the Mexican–American War,he continued to operate as a merchant. He became very wealthy and built a home that is still preserved in Monterey.
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