Ygnacio Coronel (1795–1862) was a settler in the

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of Mexican

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. He was a member of the

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Life

Jose Ygnacio Franco Coronel was born in

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, during the colonial

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period. He joined the Spanish army and by 1814 rose to the rank of corporal of the cavalry. He married Maria Josefa Francisca Romero (1802 –1871), a native of Toluca. In 1834, as a part of the Híjar-Padrés Colony, Ygnacio brought his family (two sons, Antonio F. Coronel and Manuel F. Coronel, four daughters, and his nephew Agustín Olvera) to

,C. Alan Hutchinson, ''An Official List of the Members of the Hijar-Padres Colony for Mexican California, 1834'', The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Aug., 1973), pp. 407-418, University of California Press. where he started a new life as a civilian. Ygnacio Coronel was a schoolmaster. His son, Antonio, married Mariana W. de Coronel. In 1836, Coronel was appointed commissioner of the secularized

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. In 1837 he taught in the Pueblo de Los Angeles, and afterwards he was secretary of the Ayuntamiento (Los Angeles City Council). In 1843 he was granted Rancho La Cañada. Ygnacio Coronel died in 1862, after the

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hood of

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in 1850.

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