Abel Stearns in Los Angeles
At age 14 Bandini married 43-year-old Abel Stearns. Stearns was a former U.S. citizen who became a Mexican citizen and converted from Judaism to Catholicism in order to become a colonial Spanish citizen beforehand. He was one of the wealthiest men in Los Angeles and she had a sizable dowry in land. They lived in an elegant adobe, El Palacio, in Los Angeles. He died in 1871.
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