Person:Bernardo Yorba (1)

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Bernardo Yorba (August 20, 1800 – November 28, 1858), was a prominent Californio landowner, public figure, and one of the wealthiest men in early 19th-century California. Yorba also served as alcalde (mayor) of Santa Ana. The city of Yorba Linda is named after him.

Born to José Antonio Yorba, a member of the Portolà expedition, Yorba was one of California's largest landowners and most successful ranchers, with thousands of cattle and horses grazing on land grants totaling more than 35,000 acres. Bernado Yorba managed his holdings from the Hacienda de San Antonio, the principal hacienda of the Yorba family.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Bernardo Yorba, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Bernardo Yorba, in Wikidata
   Retrieved 23 Mar 2017.

   Bernardo Yorba was a Californio (Spanish/Mexican California) rancher and son of a Spanish soldier.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Bernardo (Fernando) Antonio Yorba, in Rootsweb: California Cousins Family Tree
   Person ID #12768, 21 Feb 2004.

   Name: Bernardo (Fernando) Antonio YORBA
   Sex: M
   Birth: 20 AUG 1801 in San Diego, Alta California
   Death: 20 NOV 1858 in Los Angeles, California
   Baptism: 24 AUG 1801 Mission San Diego, California
   Burial: 22 NOV 1858 Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, California

   The California Missions records, Los Angeles County records, Marie Northrops- "Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, Vol I & II, plus many other library resources were used in collecting this data.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} Bernardo Antonio Yorba, in Find A Grave: Yorba Cemetery, Yorba Linda, Orange County, California
   Memorial# 7420123, May 06, 2003.

   Birth: Aug. 24, 1801, San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA
   Death: Oct. 21, 1858, Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA
   Burial: Yorba Cemetery, Yorba Linda, Orange County, California, USA
   Plot: Family

   Early California land grant pioneer. Born Bernardo Antonio Yorba y Grijalva, he was baptized at the San Diego Presidio Chapel August 24, 1801 (Presidio/Mission San Diego Baptism No. 03068). He was the son of José Antonio Yorba and María Josefa Grijalva. He received his own grant in 1834 encompassing 13,328 acres which today is the location of the historic city of Yorba Linda, the birth and burial place of President Richard Nixon. He is remembered most for constructing a huge adobe hacienda in nearby Santa Ana Canyon. He named his land grant "Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana" and his new residence "San Antonio" after his favorite saint. The spacious two story adobe had over 100 rooms with the rancho having hundreds of employees to tend the vineyards, crops and cattle fed by water from the Santa Ana River marking the first large irrigation system in California. Bernardo liked young women. His first wife 16 year old Maria in five years between marriage and death gave birth to one son and three daughters. He next married fifteen year old Felipa who died giving birth to her twelfth child. His third wife he married by proxy and had a friend travel to Los Angeles on his behalf to take the marriage vows at the historic Plaza Church. Andrea was 29 years younger than her new husband but she bore him four sons. At the age of 57, Don Bernardo Yorba died leaving behind a large and prosperous rancho and twenty children. He was interred in the old Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles. He left the land for a cemetery, the Yorba Cemetery, in his will but it was not ready for a burial until 1862. He and 9 of his family members remained at Calvary until 1923 when they were all moved and reinterred at Yorba cemetery. His second wife, Felipa Dominguez, was one of those moved. His last wife, Andrea Avila, remarried and she is buried along with her second husband in an unmarked grave at the Yorba cemetery.