Napa-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Juarez, Dolores 1854 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

DOLORES JUAREZ, a native son of California, was born near Napa, in the original
adobe residence of his parents, Cayetamo and Maria J. (Higuerra) Juarez, in
1854. He received his primary education in the public schools of Napa, and later
attended St. Mary's College at San Francisco, the Oakland College, and St.
Augustine College at Benicia. He returned home at the age of fifteen, and since
that time he has been engaged in attending to the various interests connected
with his own and his father's ranch near Napa. He was married in 1876 to Miss
Helene Newhouse, a native of Sierra County, California. They have three
children: Roy, born July 5, 1877; Ethel, born September 14. 1882; and Vivien,
born January 8, 1884. He is a member of Napa Parlor, No. 62, N. S. G. W., and
the organizer and leader of the Juarez Orchestra, which has furnished the music
for the surrounding country for years past. His father was the earliest locater
of land in the Napa Valley, having been granted, in 1841, by Governor Manuel
Jimeno, a tract of 8,865 58-100ths acres, called the Tulucay Rancho, which
extended from the Suscol Creek on the south to Arroyo Sarco on the north, and to
the Napa River on the west. He was a Mexican soldier from his early boyhood,
joining the army in 1827, and took a very active part in the control of the
Indian population, fighting those that were insubordinate, and managing; and
caring for on his ranch those who were peaceful. In 1840 he removed to the grant
above mentioned, where he built the original adobe house in which he lived until
1845. In that year he built the second old large adobe, which is still occupied.
In the year 1854 he was elected the alcalde of the district of Sonoma, in which
year a party of twenty Americans assembled near the present site of Healdsburg
for some unlawful purpose, when Don Cayetano with a force of men drove them
away. The excitement growing out of this affair continued to increase until the
Americans and Mexicans began to look upon each other with general distrust, and
finally culminated in what is known as the "Bear Flag War." Don Cayetano also
owned a rancho of 10,000 acres where Ukiah now stands, but this was never
confirmed to him by our Government, as he had already disposed of it before the
American Land Commission was appointed. He died in 1883, and is buried in the
Tulucay Cemetery, the ground for which was donated by him. His wife, Madame
Maria J. Juarez, was born at the Presidio in 1815. Her father, Francisco
Higuerra, was a soldier and also an interpreter of the Russian language in the
intercourse with the Russian settlements in Alaska and on the Russian River. He
built the first wooden house in San Francisco, the material being brought from
the mill on the Russian River. He owned all the lands in the immediate
neighborhood of the Presidio, but being lost at sea on a voyage to the Sandwich
Islands, his children, who were young at the time, were defrauded of their
property. Mrs. Maria Jesus Juarez survived her husband six years, dying January
7, 1890, aged seventy-four years, one month and twenty-three days, and was
buried by the side of her husband.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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