José Manuel Machado (1781 - 1852) was a Spanish soldier, ranchero, early citizen and regiador on the ayuntamiento of the Pueblo of San Diego.
José Manuel Machado was born in 1781, but details of his life before joining the Spanish army are unknown.
[1] The elder Machado came as a corporal of the Leather Jacket Company to garrison the Presido of San Diego in 1782.
During the early 1830s he became a citizen of the new Pueblo of San Diego where he built a one-story adobe house for his family below the presidio, on what became 2724 Congress Street.
José Manuel Machado died October 18, 1852, and was buried in the El Campo Santo Cemetery in the Old Town, San Diego.