Jose De Jesus Vallejo, Spain > Mexico> California 1886
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Jose De Jesus Vallejo, Spain > Mexico> California 1886
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Classification: Biography
Surnames: Vallejo, Lugo
JOSE DE JESUS VALLEJO
The name of VALLEJO is one of the most illustrious in Californian history. The family is of Castilian origin. The subject of this sketch was one of thirteen children born of the same parents. He is an elder brother of Gen. Mariano de Guadalupe VALLEJO, who has for many years been a prominent person in the country. His father was a native of Spain. His parents emigrated to Mexico when he was but an infant, and settled in the State of Guadalajara. They intended to educate him for holy orders, which he disliked, and he secretly joined Captain Rivera's expedition for the exploration of Upper California. One day, in the year 1771, when in the vicinity of the Mission of San Luis Obispo, and during the first months of its foundation, he beheld for the first time the woman who was destined in after years to be his wife. It was the day of her birth. He unexpectedly met a lady in travail, and about to bring a new being into the world ; and as there was no one, save her husband, to assist her, he acted as holder (tenedor). The lady was safely delivered of a girl, whereupon young VALLEJO solicited of the parents the hand of their child, and a formal agreement ensued between the parties, conditioned that if at mature age the girl should willingly consent to the union, the ceremony should be duly performed. Time rolled by, and year after year transpired, until the rauchata had reached her fourteenth year, when the marriage took place; and of the offspring of that union, already referred to, the subject of this sketch was the second son. The name of his mother, who was so romantically wooed and won, was Dona Maria Antonio Lugo. His father's occupation of a soldier required his presence in different localities at different times, and his family wherever he happened to be located. Sometimes he would be at Monterey, sometimes at San Francisco, and sometimes at San Jose. The General was born at Monterey in 1808, and Jesus was born at San Jose about the year 1800. Monterey, however, has always been the headquarters of the family, whose scattered members make pilgrimages thereto, as if to a Mecca. The education of the family probably was altogether domestic, although some schools were established. Somewhere about the year 1837 Senor VALLEJO was appointed administrator of the Mission of San Jose; since which he has resided there, and received the grant of the Arroyo del Alameda rancho of four square leagues, from Governor Alvarado, in 1842. In 1850 he built his present house, which occupies a prominent position nearly opposite the church. In 1853 he erected his extensive grist-mill, with its long water-flume, which cost a great deal of money. Senor VALLEJO is a very retiring old gentleman, and is blessed with. an interesting, grown up family of sons and daughters.
The Centennial Yearbook of Alameda County, 1886
The name of VALLEJO is one of the most illustrious in Californian history. The family is of Castilian origin. The subject of this sketch was one of thirteen children born of the same parents. He is an elder brother of Gen. Mariano de Guadalupe VALLEJO, who has for many years been a prominent person in the country. His father was a native of Spain. His parents emigrated to Mexico when he was but an infant, and settled in the State of Guadalajara. They intended to educate him for holy orders, which he disliked, and he secretly joined Captain Rivera's expedition for the exploration of Upper California. One day, in the year 1771, when in the vicinity of the Mission of San Luis Obispo, and during the first months of its foundation, he beheld for the first time the woman who was destined in after years to be his wife. It was the day of her birth. He unexpectedly met a lady in travail, and about to bring a new being into the world ; and as there was no one, save her husband, to assist her, he acted as holder (tenedor). The lady was safely delivered of a girl, whereupon young VALLEJO solicited of the parents the hand of their child, and a formal agreement ensued between the parties, conditioned that if at mature age the girl should willingly consent to the union, the ceremony should be duly performed. Time rolled by, and year after year transpired, until the rauchata had reached her fourteenth year, when the marriage took place; and of the offspring of that union, already referred to, the subject of this sketch was the second son. The name of his mother, who was so romantically wooed and won, was Dona Maria Antonio Lugo. His father's occupation of a soldier required his presence in different localities at different times, and his family wherever he happened to be located. Sometimes he would be at Monterey, sometimes at San Francisco, and sometimes at San Jose. The General was born at Monterey in 1808, and Jesus was born at San Jose about the year 1800. Monterey, however, has always been the headquarters of the family, whose scattered members make pilgrimages thereto, as if to a Mecca. The education of the family probably was altogether domestic, although some schools were established. Somewhere about the year 1837 Senor VALLEJO was appointed administrator of the Mission of San Jose; since which he has resided there, and received the grant of the Arroyo del Alameda rancho of four square leagues, from Governor Alvarado, in 1842. In 1850 he built his present house, which occupies a prominent position nearly opposite the church. In 1853 he erected his extensive grist-mill, with its long water-flume, which cost a great deal of money. Senor VALLEJO is a very retiring old gentleman, and is blessed with. an interesting, grown up family of sons and daughters.
The Centennial Yearbook of Alameda County, 1886