23/12/2023
Don Antonio Maria Lugo, of Los Angeles, was genial and witty, about eighty years of age, yet active and elastic, sitting on his horse as straight as an arrow, with his reata on the saddle, and as skillful in its use as any of his vaqueros. He was an eccentric old gentleman. He had a wife aged twenty or twenty-two—his third or fourth. In 1846, I visited him. After cordially welcoming me, he introduced me to his wife and in the same breath, and as I shook hands with her, said, in a joking way, with a cunning smile, “ No se enamore de mi joven esposa.” (Don’t fall in love with my young wife.) He had a number of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Los Angeles was largely populated by his family. Referring to this circumstance, he said to me quietly, “ Don Guillermo, yo he cumplido mi deber a mi pais.” (Don Guillermo, I have fulfilled my duty to my country)
William Heath Davis – “Seventy-five Years in California”
Don Antonio Maria Lugo
Don Antonio Maria Lugo recieved land grants for his sons and daughter setting them up as influential families in Southern California's San Bernardino area.