Alfred Beck Chapman was a Los Angeles real estate attorney and investor. He was one of the founders of the city of Orange,California.
Agustín Olvera (1820-1876) was a Californio judge,ranchero,and politician in 19th century Los Angeles. Olvera served as the first elected Los Angeles County Judge and also served on the Los Angeles Common Council. He is the namesake of Olvera Street by the Plaza de Los Ángeles.
David W. Alexander was an early California politician and pioneer in Los Angeles County,California. He was on the Board of Supervisors in 1853 and 1854,and in 1855 he was elected the third sheriff for the county.
Tomas Avila Sanchez (1826–1882),soldier,sheriff and public official,was on the Los Angeles County,California,Board of Supervisors and was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council,the legislative branch of the city.
Francis Mellus was a Los Angeles County Supervisor and a successful California business man.
Rancho Cañada de los Nogales was a 1,200-acre (4.9 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Los Angeles County,California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to JoséMaria Aguilar. The name means "canyon of the walnut trees" and refers to stands of California Black Walnut trees. The grant extended along the east bank of the Los Angeles River opposite Rancho Los Feliz,and encompassed present day Cypress Park,Mt. Washington and Highland Park. The grant adjoined Rancho San Rafael to the north.
John Ozias Wheeler was an American merchant,court clerk,government employee,city council member and newspaper editor. He worked primarily in California during the 19th century.
Juan María Sepúlveda was the owner of a ranch in the South Bay area in 1858,located on Santa Monica Bay in Los Angeles County,California. The area,originally part of the Spanish land grant of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica,later became known as the Huntington Palisades. He is the son of Francisco Sepúlveda and Maria Ramona Serrano.
Wilson W. Jones was a California Gold Rush pioneer settler in Los Angeles,California,who acted as county clerk and was also a member of the city's governing body,the Los Angeles Common Council. He is said to have been responsible for the Goldwater family of Arizona establishing itself in that state.
Alexander W. Hope,a physician and druggist,was Los Angeles County sheriff in the 1850s,a state senator,a member of the Los Angeles Common Council and the organizer of the first American law-enforcement group in the city,the forerunner of the Los Angeles Police Department.
William Taylor Barnes Sanford (1814–1863) was an American road builder,a landowner and the second postmaster of Los Angeles,California,after it became a part of the United States. He was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council in 1853–54.
George Cady Carson (1832–1901) was a merchant,road builder,rancher and member of the Los Angeles,California,Common Council in the 1850s.
Narciso Botello was a chief of staff for Mexican General Joaquín Ramírez y Sesma before the Mexican–American War and was the first Southern California member of the California State Assembly after California organized its legislature.
Eulogio F. de Celis (Jr.) was a Californio ranchero,newspaper publisher,and politician. He once owned most of the San Fernando Valley. He also served as a member of the Los Angeles Common Council.
Albert Fenner Kercheval was a fruit grower and poet in Los Angeles County,California,and a member of the Los Angeles Common Council during the 19th Century.
William Newton Monroe (1841–1935) was a school teacher,banker,hotel manager,mayor,council member,real estate developer,broker,railroad contractor and railroad superintendent and a founder of the city of Monrovia,California.
Milton Santee (1835–1901),was a 19th-century civil engineer,surveyor,miner,real estate developer,and entrepreneur in Missouri and Southern California.
Hiram Sinsabaugh was a Methodist Episcopal minister and banker who served on the Los Angeles,California,Common Council,the legislative branch of the city,in the 19th century.
Joseph W. Wolfskill and Louis Wolfskill were brothers who were members of the Los Angeles,California,Common Council,the legislative arm of that city's government,between 1874 and 1884. They were landowner successors to their pioneer Southern California father,William Wolfskill.
The Sepúlveda family is a prominent Californio family of Southern California. Members of the family held extensive rancho grants and numerous important positions,including Alcalde de Los Ángeles,California State Assemblymen,and Los Angeles County Supervisor.
