Ventura County Biographies

Jose De La Rosa

Submitted by Sandy Neder

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Jose De La Rosa was born in the city of Los Angeles, Mexico, January 5, 1790, at 
one o'clock in the morning, and was baptized in the cathedral the same day at 
seven o'clock in the evening. He is the son of Senor Don Jose florencio de la 
Rosa and Dona Maria Antonia Narzisa Rosa. His baptismal name is Jose Maria 
Telisforo de la Solida de los Santos Angeles de la Rosa. He has the distinction 
of being the first printer in this State, having arrived from Mexico in 1834. He 
was sent by the Mexican government, as government printer in California. In the 
year 1845 he was appointed by the government as Alcalde of Sonoma (which is the 
same in the English language as district judge). He remained in Sonoma until 
1867, when he removed to Martinez, Contra Costa County. Here he resided until 
1879, and in that year he came to Ventura, where he still lives, in the 
enjoyment of good health, at the advanced age of one hundred years. He is a 
devout Catholic.
 
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF SANTA BARBARA, SAN LUIS 
OBISPO, AND VENTURA, CALIF. by Ida Addis Storke, 1891, p 568