Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Machado, Jose De La Luz 1856 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

JOSE DE LA LUZ MACHADO is a worthy representative of one of the wealthy and
influential families of early-day Southern California and a lineal descendant of
Manuel Machado, a native Spaniard, who was a pioneer of early times at Santa
Barbara and who, for military duty, was by the Spanish government granted a
tract of land, a portion of which lies within the present confines of the city
of Los Angeles. Augustine and Ygnacio were ambitious sons of Manuel Machado, who
became the owners of La Ballona grant, an extensive and valuable tract of land
upon a portion of which is now located the towns of Playa del Rev, Venice, Ocean
Park and Palms. This land was acquired under circumstances recited on page 137
in this work, and which will give the reader many facts concerning this
interesting California family.

Jose De la Luz Machado is a son of Augustine Machado. His mother was, by maiden
name, Ramona, a daughter of Don Francisco Sepulveda, a Spanish soldier, who for
his devotion and loyalty as a soldier to the Spanish crown, was granted the San
Vicente Rancho of several thousand acres of land (see page 132 in this book).
The city of Santa Monica and a large portion of the Soldiers' Home and the city
of Sawtelle are on land originally embraced in this grant. The holdings of
Augustine Machado in the Ballona grant have been shared by the children, eleven
in number, and of whom Jose De la Luz is the youngest. He was born December 17,
1856, in Los Angeles on South Main street, corner of Winston street. He attended
Santa Clara College at Santa Clara, Cal., and graduated therefrom in the class
of 1876, taking the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then returned home and has
followed agriculture on a portion of the old Ballona grant that came to him by
inheritance. He has never married and the family household comprises himself, a
brother, Bernardino, and a younger sister.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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