Juan Jose Warner

Juan Jose Warner was the first owner of Warner's Ranch in Warner Springs, California.

Warner, born in 1807 as Jonathan Trumbull Warner in Connecticut, left for Alta California in 1830. He purchased land and developed what became known as Warner's Ranch in Warner Springs, California.cite book |author=Starr, Kevin |title=Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford [Oxfordshire] |year=1986 |pages=36-37 |isbn=0-19-504234-4 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UaTslCOyLz0C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA37&vq=warner&dq=%22Juan+Jose+Warner%22&output=html&sig=ACfU3U03RrM_akbKdpk5vJtKWWik_Hqe9Q |doi= |accessdate=] It was the only trading post between New Mexico and Los Angeles which led to it becoming a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line.

Warner put down the 1851 uprising by the local Cupeño Native American tribe which resulted in several of his buildings being burned down. Warner left and did not return to the ranch. [ [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070128/news_lz1mi28wewere.html Warner Springs' history shadowed by conflict, By Vincent Nicholas Rossi, January 28, 2007, San Diego Union] ]

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*cite book | title =Warner, the Man and the Ranch |author = Lorrin L. Morrison| date=1962 | publisher = Warner's Ranch| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OID1GAAACAAJ&dq=Lorrin+L.+Morrison,+Warner:+The+Man+and+the+Ranch&output=html&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=0_2