Lugo family of California

Francisco Lugo was one of the soldiers who escorted the Los Angeles Pobladores (farming families and colonists) in 1781 from northern Mexico into California.

After 17 years of service at the Presidio of Santa Barbara, in 1810 Corporal Lugo received his discharge and settled with his family in the Pueblo de Los Angeles.

Maria married Stephen Clark Foster, the first American mayor of Los Angeles after the Mexican–American War.

[4][5][6] José del Carmen Lugo (1813 – c. 1870) was a major 19th-century Californio landowner in Southern California.

[7] He was born in 1813 at the Pueblo de Los Angeles, in Spanish colonial Alta California, then a province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

[7] José del Carmen Lugo, in a joint venture with his brothers José María and Vicente Lugo and cousin Diego Sepúlveda, began colonizing the San Bernardino Valley and adjacent Yucaipa Valley.

[7] The valley was plagued by robberies and frequent raids by California Indians resisting loss of their homeland.

The Lugo families became strong allies with the Mountain Band of Cahuilla Indians led by Chief Juan Antonio.

His militia forces, together with allied Cahuilla, killed 33–40 Luiseño in the Temecula Massacre to avenge the deaths of 11 Californio lancers.

In May 1849, U.S. military Governor Richard Barnes Mason appointed Lugo as the first Mexican-Californio mayor of Los Angeles after U.S. control began.

In 1852, Lugo sold Rancho San Bernardino to Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich, apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.