Name Cayetano Apablasa | Died 1889 | |
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Cayetano Apablasa Blanco (or Apablaza; 1847–1889) was a 19th-century land owner and politician in Los Angeles, California. His holdings were on the south of the central Los Angeles Plaza, later the first site of the city's Chinatown and location of present-day Union Station.
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Personal
Apablasa was born September 16, 1847, in San Diego, California. He was the son of Juan Apablasa (or Apablaza) of Chile, who came to Mexican Alta California about 1839, and to Pueblo de Los Ángeles in 1843. His mother was María del Espíritu Santo Blanco. He had a younger sister, Candelaria. Cayetano attended parochial school.
He was married in Los Angeles to Concepcion Carasco (or Carrasco), and they had two sons and three daughters—John Vincent, Cayetano John (who later became a dentist), Mary (Mrs. Maria Conley, or Mrs. Lita Bernstein), Candelaria or Conchita (Mrs. Finlay), and Laura (Mrs. Thesing). The family home was in a seven-acre orchard near the Old Plaza.
He died November 14, 1889, several weeks after he was thrown from his horse in an accident. His widow married Ildefonso A. Sepulveda in 1892.
Career
After he left school at age seventeen, he entered the Wilmington Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington and served there during the American Civil War, until 1869. After the war, he opened a blacksmithery or a wagon shop at 99 Alameda Street. His later activities involved the extensive real estate holdings of his family. In 1985 the Los Angeles Times noted that:
Public service
Apablasa was elected to the Los Angeles Common Council on December 3, 1877, for a term ending in December 1878, representing the 1st Ward. He was a member of the police committee.
The Workingman's Party nominated him for the State Senate in 1880.