Pío de Jesús Pico III was born in Spain, and became the first member of the family believed to reside in the Americas. He likely came to what was then New Spain in the first or second decade of the 18th century.[3][a]
Santiago Pico
The family was founded by Santiago Pico, who came to California in 1775 as a member of the de Anza expedition.[5] He was born in 1733 in Sonora. He served at the Presidio of San Francisco until he was appointed to the Presidio of San Diego in 1777. He married María Jacinta Bastida and had seven children, from which members of the Pico family all descend. He was granted Rancho Simi in 1795. He died 1815 in San Buenaventura.
José María Pico
José María Pico was born in 1764, as son of Santiago Pico. He was one of the first settlers of San Diego. In 1782, he became a soldier, joining the company at the Presidio of San Diego. He later served as corporal and then sergeant of the guard at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, until his retirement in 1818.[6] In 1789, he married María Estaquia López. He died in San Gabriel in 1819.
Salomón Pico was born in 1821 in Salinas. He participated in the California Gold Rush, but his property rights to land where gold was discovered were disregarded by American squatters. Salomon subsequently vowed revenge against the eastern settlers coming to California and became a notorious outlaw. He was hailed as a hero and vigilante by Californios and decried as a bandit by government authorities. He is considered to be one of the inspirations for El Zorro, the fictional Californio hero.[18] The Solomon Hills in Santa Barbara County are named after him.
^Pío Pico III's date of immigration to colonial Mexico came from a 1986 pamphlet for the Pio Pico State Historic Park by Howard Holter. However, Holter's source for this is unknown.[4]
^"Andreas Pico Adobe"Archived 2010-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, The Branding Iron, December 1976, Number 124; reprinted by the San Fernando Valley Historical Society, 1977; accessed 11 October 2011
^Oscar T. Shuck,1870, “Representative & Leading Men of the Pacific”, Bacon & Co., Printers & Publishers, San Francisco,Pages 631-634
^Magill, Frank N. "Magill's Survey of Cinema: Silent Films". Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Salem Press, 1982. and Tompkins, Walker. Decade of the Desperado. Santa Barbara Magazine Vol. 8 No. 4, Santa Barbara. 1982.
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