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Peralta team, Greeley, about 1910, sponsored by Arthur A. Peralta (seated at center, holding a hat), superintendent of Great Western Sugar Company. Courtesy Jay Sanford. The great-grandson of Luís María Peralta, who received the San Antonio land grant from the governor of Mexico in 1820, Arthur A. Peralta was one of eight children born to Antonio María Peralta Jr. and María Higuera Peralta. Born in 1873, Arthur grew up in California, where his father operated a sugar and coffee plant. In 1893 he graduated from Stanford University with a chemistry degree. A few years later he settled in Greeley, where he worked for the Greeley Sugar Company. When Charles Boettcher founded the Great Western Sugar Company in 1903, Peralta became the company’s superintendent. Peralta died in California in 1919.