José María Alviso

José María Alviso

José María de Jesus Alviso (November 19 1798 - June 18 1853) was an early settler of the Silicon Valley in California, "alcalde" (mayor) of San José, and grantee of Rancho Milpitas. Alviso's house, the Jose Maria Alviso Adobe, is listed on National Register of Historic Places.

Biography

Alviso was born in 1798 and baptized at Mission Santa Clara. He was the son of Francisco Xavier Alviso and Maria Bojorquez, both of whom arrived in San Francisco as children with their parents from Sonora on the Spanish De Anza Expedition in 1776. José María Alviso served as a soldier in the Spanish- and later Mexican military from 1819 to 1827. In 1826 he married Juana Galindo, daughter of Don Crisostomo Galindo. Governor José Castro of Alta California granted a large tract of land in what is now Milpitas, California on September 23 1835 to Alviso. [cite web
url = http://www.milpitashistory.org/alviso/alviso.html
title = José Maria Alviso Adobe/Rancho Milpitas
publisher = milpitashistory.org
author = Steve Munzel
accessdate = 2007-03-13 ] Alviso served as the alcalde of San José in 1836. [cite book
last = Bancroft
first = Hubert Howe
authorlink= Hubert Howe Bancroft
url =
title = History of California
pages = Vol III, p 730 ]

Identity

Confusingly, Alviso had a cousin named José María Alviso who was born in 1807 to Ignacio Alviso and Margarita Bernal and baptized at Mission Santa Clara. [cite web
url = http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=42266959&lds=0&region=-1&regionfriendly=&frompage=99
title = Jose Maria ALVISO (AFN: 1Q5F-8M5)
publisher = FamilySearch Ancestral File v4.19
accessdate = 2007-03-13 ] However, as Alviso descendent Bart Sepulveda points out, since the grantee of Rancho Milpitas had served as a soldier starting in 1819, a 12 year old would be too young to be the person in question. [cite news
last = Lundstrom
first = Mack
title = B. Sepulveda, descendent of Spanish settlers
work = San Jose Mercury News
date = 1993-01-21
url =
accessdate = ] [cite book
last = Filiberti Butler
first = Phyllis
url =
title = Old Santa Clara Valley
year = 1975
publisher = World Wide Publishing
pages = p.58] Further clarification comes from the Supreme Court appeal "United States v. Jose Antonio Alviso" (1859). Ignacio's son Jose Maria was granted another rancho, Cañada Verde, in 1838. Jose Antonio Alviso was known to be Ignacio's eldest son. The appeal mentions that Jose Maria Alviso who made petition in 1838 for the rancho was his brother. [cite web
url = http://supreme.justia.com/us/64/318/
title = "United States v. Alviso", 64 U.S. 318 (1859)
publisher = Justia.com Supreme Court Center
author =
accessdate = 2007-04-01 ]

ee also

* Californios
* History of California to 1899

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