In 1867 Don Vicente Lugo donated the Adobe to St. Vincent's School, that later became Loyola Marymount University.

[5] Don Antonio Maria De Lugo was the owner of large land grants in Southern California.

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

[6] Harris Newmark remarked of Don Vicente that "the Beau Brummel of Los Angeles" in the early 1850s was "Don Vicente Lugo, whose wardrobe was made up exclusively of the fanciest patterns of Mexican type; his home, one of the few two-story houses in the pueblo, was close to Ygnacio del Valle's.

Lugo, a brother of Don José María, was one of the heavy taxpayers of his time; as late as 1860, he had herds of twenty-five hundred head of cattle, or half a thousand more than Pío and Andrés Pico together owned.