Esteban Munrás

[2] Having studied art in his native Spain, Munràs immigrated to the Alta California as a young man, ultimately making his home in its capital, Monterey.

Munrás was a dealer in cattle hides and tallow, the products of his Rancho San Vicente.

He built Casa Munrás, the first home to be constructed outside the walls of the El Presidio Reál de San Carlos de Monterey, where he established a thriving trading house attached to the family home.

Munrás imported fine household furnishings and necessities to the earliest settlers in Monterey, California's first capital.

His dying wish was for his wife Catalina Munrás to subdivide their Rancho San Vicente into a town.