Dunleavy, James G.

James G. T. Dunleavy had a farm in the 1840s, on part of of what had been the Mission Santa Cruz farmlands. By 1866, he was no longer listed as a property owner in that area, and his former farm had been subdivided into many residential lots. Elihu Anthony enjoyed Dunleavy's hospitality upon his Santa Cruz arrival in 1847.

In 1849, Dunleavy was chosen to attend the Monterey District (one of ten districts) meeting that was either to select or to be delegates to a California constitutional convention, to be held on May 6 in San Jose. It's not clear whether this gathering ever took place. There was a change (or maybe two) in the military governorship of California between the February election of Dunleavy and the May date set for the San Jose event. Then, a week after that date in May, new governor Bennet Riley issued a new call for delegates to a constitutional convention in Monterey, to be held in September. The [1849 California Constitutional Convention Monterey convention] is the one that actually wrote the first state constitution in 1849. Convention records state that delegates were: "From Monterey - H. W. Halleck, T. O. Larkin, C. T. Botts, P. Ord, L. Dent.". It appears that none of these were from Santa Cruz.

Two other things of note in the Sentinel clipping at right (from December 23, 1882, p2): 1) "our new hall of records" is the 1882 Hall of Records (Octagon), and 2) the name of Harry [Henry] Speel is misspelled.

• John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Three, introduction, page 53.