Background
De Haro was born in Compostela, Nayarit, Mexico and came to San Francisco as a soldier in 1819.
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Career
He was the first Alcalde of Yerba Buena in 1834. He was instrumental in planning the street grid of the town along with Englishman William A. Richardson in 1835. In 1837, de Haro bought the Galindo ranch, which included Lake Merced and portions of northern San Mateo County, from the grantee José Antonio Galindo.
And in strange turn of events, in 1838, Alcalde de Haro issued an arrest warrant for Jose Antonio Galindo for the murder of José Doroteo Peralta (1810–1838).
De Haro served again as the fifth Alcalde from 1838-1839. He commissioned the first survey of the settlement by Jean Jacques Vioget in 1839.
De Haro married Emiliana (Miliana) Sánchez who was the sister of Alcaldes Francisco Sanchez and José de la Cruz Sánchez. The marriage produced twelve children, including a pair of twin sons and a pair of twin daughters.
Miliana Sánchez died in 1842.
Kit Carson (and potentially other men) shot the men at the direction of John C. Frémontana De Haro died in 1849 and is buried at Mission Dolores in San Francisco. De Haro Street, in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, is named after him.
