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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 31, 2015
Caption: Lieutenant José Antonio Estudillo
Additional Description: Son of the Commandant of the Presidio of San Diego, Estudillo became a lieutenant in the Spanish army around 1824. He built this adobe house in 1827-29. Neutral in the Mexican American War, he became the first San Diego County assessor after California became part of the United States.

This c. 1830 portrait hangs in the Estudillo house.
Submitted: June 26, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p312627
File Size: 1.435 Megabytes

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