Who founded the area where Thomas O. Larkin was a businessman?
Thomas O. Larkin: Thomas Oliver Larkin (September 16, 1802 – October 27, 1858) was an early American businessman in Alta California, and was appointed to be the United States' first and only consul to Mexican Alta California. Alta California: Alta California (English: Upper California ), founded in 1769 by Gaspar de Portolà, was a polity of New Spain, and, after the Mexican War of Independence in 1822, a territory of Mexico.
Gaspar de Portolà