Victoria Cotton Ogden; Descendant of Land Grant Family

Victoria Cotton Ogden, 81, a sixth-generation descendant of Don Juan Jose Dominguez, recipient in 1784 of the 76,000-acre Rancho San Pedro, the first Southern California land concession from King Carlos III of Spain. Her great-grandfather, Don Manuel Dominguez, was mayor of Los Angeles in 1832. Her grandfather, George Henry Carson, was a member of the City Council and the man for whom the city of Carson is named. Her father was Henry Hamilton Cotton, whose San Clemente estate was the scene of many political and social gatherings over the years before it was sold to Richard M. Nixon. She was a philanthropist and longtime director of the Carson Estate Co., the holding company for the family oil and land interests. In Los Angeles on Oct. 12.