Fermín de Lasuén
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lasuén and the second or maternal family name is de Arasqueta.
Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta (7 June 1736 – Mission de San Carlos (California), 26 June 1803) was a Basque[1] Franciscan missionary to Alta California president of the Franciscan missions there, and founder of nine of the twenty-one Spanish missions in California.