José María Estudillo

José María Estudillo (?–April 8 1830) was an early settler of San Diego, California, USA, born in Andalusia, Spain.

Military and civic history

Captain Estudillo was Commandant of the Presidio of San Diego from October 23 1820 to September 1821 and again from 1827 to his death in 1830.

Family life

Estudillo married Gertrudis Horcasitas.

In 1827 Estudillo's son José Antonio Estudillo built a large L-shaped adobe on land granted by Governor José Echeandia. The adobe was later enlarged and became U-shaped. It is at the southeast side of the Old Town San Diego plaza.

Estudillo's other children were José Joaquin, who lived on the San Leandro rancho, on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay; María Dolores Estudillo, who married Juan Bandini; and Magdalena, who was grantee of part of the Otay ranch in 1829.

ources

* [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/caldatanook/pioneers/capioe.htm "California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542—1848"]
* [http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/69winter/part3.htm "The Estudillo Family", "The Journal of San Diego History" 15:1 (1969) by Sister Catherine McShane]
* [http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95fall/guajome.htm "Rancho Guajome", "The Journal of San Diego History" 41:4 (1995) by Iris H. W. Engstrand and Mary F. Ward]

External links

* [http://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/estudillo/estudillojm.htm "José Maria Estudillo", from Smythe's "History of San Diego" (1907), p. 169]