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Manuel Dominguez



Manual Dominguez, (1804 - (1882), born in Alta California, New Spain at the Mission San Juan Capistrano, was the eldest son of Cristobal Dominguez, who was the nephew of Juan Jose Dominguez, a retired Spanish soldier who came to San Diego, California with the Gaspar de PortolĂ  expedition and later to San Juan Capistrano and San Gabriel with Father Juniperro Serra. In 1784, Juan Jose was granted 75,000 acres of land from the Spanish King Carlos III which was named Rancho San Pedro, and included what today is the entire Los Angeles harbor, the Palos Verdes peninsula, San Pedro, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Torrance, Lomita, Harbor City, Wilmington, Carson , and Compton.



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