Grandson of some of the earliest Spanish settlers of California, his second son Pio Linares was an infamous leader, (allegedly with Jack Powers), of a bandit gang in San Luis Obispo County in the 1850s.
Salvador died at the Monterey Presidio in August 1807, at age 31, soon after the birth of his twin sons Francisco and Víctor on July 24, 1807; both were christened the next day at Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad.
[3][6] It was he or perhaps his father Juan Jose Miguel Villalobos, an old soldier and resident of San Diego,[7] who raised the sons of Salvador Linares until his death March 7, 1825.
That year the eldest Linares son, Jose Ynes de la Luz joined the garrison of San Diego Presidio and was later granted the Rancho Los Nogales in 1840.
[5] The other twin son of Salvador, Francisco "Santiago" Linares, did not join the military but followed a path that led to his execution for a robbery and murder at Los Angeles on April 7, 1841.
[5] In 1839, Víctor Linares was appointed majordomo of the lands of the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa from May to October when he was let go to save the $20 salary and cost of his large family.
[13]: 683, n.9 However, in on April 22, 1840, Víctor Linares as an alférez in the Monterey company of auxiliaries, was ordered by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to take charge of a Sergeant and 11 men, under the command of Captain J. M. Covarrubias to be an escort of Prefect Castro during his mission to take 60 foreign prisoners including Isaac Graham, to Mexico City.
In 1842 Víctor Linares was granted Ranchito de Santa Fe, a 1,000 vara square lot (165.76 acres) within the Pueblo lands of San Luis Obispo by Gov.
The rancho lay west of San Luis Obispo to Morro Bay in the Los Osos Valley, between the Irish Hills to the south and the Nine Sisters to the north.
[5]: Sources, note 10 [21] The 1852 California census showed Víctor Linares living in his home in the town, with his wife and younger children, [Fernando, 18, Raymundo, 9, Maria Olivia, 7.