Background
Jose Ygnacio Franco Coronel was born in Mexico City, during the colonial New Spain period.
Jose Ygnacio Franco Coronel was born in Mexico City, during the colonial New Spain period.
He joined the Spanish army and by 1814 rose to the rank of corporal of the cavalry. Ygnacio Coronel was a schoolmaster. In 1836, Coronel was appointed commissioner of the securalized Mission San Miguel Arcángel.
In 1837 he taught in the Pueblo de Los Angeles, and afterwards he was secretary of the Ayuntamiento (Los Angeles City Council).
In 1843 he was granted Rancho Louisiana Cañada. Ygnacio Coronel died in 1862, after the United States. statehood of California in 1850.
He was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council.