Ernest Marquez

Ernest Marquez was a historian and author born in 1924 in Santa Monica, California, on family land from the original Rancho Boca de Santa Monica granted to his ancestors in 1839. He documented his family's history dating back to 1771, publishing books with Angel City Press on Santa Monica beach and Prohibition-era topics, and sold his photo collection to the Huntington Library in 2014. A WWII Navy veteran, commercial artist in aerospace, and married to Lois Burke since 1952, he passed away in 2011.