Thomas Oliver Larkin, known later in life as Don Tomás Larkin, was an American diplomat and businessman.
Thomas O. Larkin
Larkin House in Monterey, California, a prime example of Monterey Colonial architecture.
Larkin's grave at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California
Larkin House in 1959
Juan Bautista Rogers Cooper was a 19th-century pioneer of California, who held British, Mexican, and finally American citizenship. Raised in Massachusetts in a maritime family, he came to the Mexican territory of Alta California as master of the ship Rover, and was a pioneer of Monterey, California, when it was the capital of the territory. He converted to Catholicism, became a Mexican citizen, married the daughter of the Mexican territorial governor, and acquired extensive land holdings in the area prior to the Mexican–American War.
The Cooper-Molera Adobe in 1830
The Cooper Cabin in Big Sur in 1888
The Cooper Cabin in 2010
The Cooper-Molera Adobe in 2013 when operated by the California State Parks.