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When Daniel Murphy died in 1881, daughter Diana and son Daniel Jr. inherited the land grant. Diana Murphy, who inherited 4,500 acres (1,821 ha) of the ranch, married Hiram Morgan Hill in 1882. [9] In 1892, Diana Murphy, sold her portion of Rancho Ojo de Agua de la Coche to real estate developer Chauncey Hatch Phillips.
Pages in category "Morgan Hill, California" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. ... Rancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche; Rancho San Vicente; S.
In 1848, the heirs of Carlos Castro sold Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas to Martin Murphy's sons Daniel and Bernard. Martin Murphy had brought his family to California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844. Martin Murphy purchased Rancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche to the north of Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas in 1846.
Morgan Hill is approximately 24 mi (39 km) south of downtown San Jose, 13 mi (21 km) north of Gilroy, and 15 mi (24 km) inland from the Pacific coast.Lying in a roughly 4-mile-wide (6 km) southern extension of the Santa Clara Valley, it is bounded by the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west and the Diablo Range to the east.
Ojo del Agua de la Coche: 1835 José Figueroa: Juan M. Hernandez 8,927 acres (3,613 ha) 379 ND Morgan Hill: Santa Clara: El Rincon: 1835 José Figueroa: Teodoro Arellanes 4,460 acres (1,805 ha) 59 SD La Conchita: Ventura: Los Méganos: 1835 José Castro: Jose Noriega: 13,316 acres (5,389 ha) 107 ND Brentwood: Contra Costa: Cañada de la ...
In 1851, Daniel Murphy, the youngest son of Martin Murphy, owner of the adjacent Rancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche married Maria Fisher. In 1882, Diana, their precocious daughter, secretly married Hiram Morgan Hill. In 1851 Liberta Ceseña married Dr. George H. Bull, a medical doctor from Troy, New York.
The grant extended southward along Coyote Creek from Rancho Santa Teresa and Coyote to Rancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche and Morgan Hill. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 1844, the area was settled by the first non-indigenous arrivals, Martin Murphy Sr. (1785–1865) and his wife and children.
The Rhoades Ranch is a historic ranch, located near Morgan Hill, California.The 12 acres (4.9 ha) ranch is linked to Harold E. Thomas, an important figure in California's strawberry industry, and encompasses the Rhoades House, a Spanish Colonial Revival architecture residence built in 1917-1920, for William G. Rhoades and designed by architects Howard W. Higbie and Andrew P. Hill Jr.