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Reginaldo Francisco del Valle was a 19th Century California state senator who was instrumental in forming Los Angeles State Normal School, the predecessor to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and who, as a Los Angeles city water commissioner, was a leader in bringing water from the distant Sierra to the city. ==Personal== Del Valle was born on December 15, 1854, in an adobe house facing the Plaza in Los Angeles, the son of Ygnacio del Valle of Compostela, Jalisco, Mexico and Ysabel Varela, who was born in California. In 1861, the family moved to Rancho Camulos in today's Ventura and Los Angeles counties.〔〔 A 2006 study of del Valle headed by David E. Hayes-Bautista〔 reported that: "Young Reginaldo was tutored at home, becoming fluent in English and French as well as Spanish." He went to St. Vincent's College in Los Angeles for high school (1867–71) and, after graduating with honors, attended Santa Clara University, where he graduated in 1873. He read law with the San Francisco firm of Winans and Belknap, and he passed the state bar examination in 1877.〔(David E. Hayes-Bautista, Marco Antonio Firebaugh, Cynthia L. Chamberlin and Christine Gamboa, "Reginaldo Francisco del Valle: UCLA's Forgotten Forefather," ''Southern California Quarterly,'' 2006, with notes, sources and photographs )〕〔 Del Valle opened his law office at 38 Temple Block,〔 just a few steps from the Plaza. He was noted as a "logical and concise speaker" in an accent "with just a suave hint of Castilian."〔 On September 2, 1890, in San Francisco,〔("Hon. Reginaldo Francisco del Valle," Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. 1, page 254, International News Service, 1913 )〕 he married Helen M. Caystile, widowed six years previously from T.J. Caystile, co-owner of the ''Los Angeles Daily Times,''〔("Wedding Bells," ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 4, 1890, page 4 )〕 and adopted the Caystiles' daughter, Helen. The new couple had another daughter, Lucretia del Valle,〔 who married Henry F. Grady of San Francisco. Del Valle was a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, La Junta Patriotica de Juárez, the Original Young Spanish Americans and the Club Cura Hidalgo.〔 He died on September 20, 1938, leaving his daughter Lucretia Grady and a sister, Josefa del Valle Forster.〔〔(geni.com )〕 Requiem mass was in the Old Plaza Church, and interment was in Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.〔("Solemn Mass in Old Plaza for Del Valle," ''Los Angeles Examiner,'' September 23, 1938 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reginaldo Francisco del Valle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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