Alameda-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Still, Wilber E. 1843 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

  WILBER E. STILL, editor and publisher of the Livermore Echo, is a native of
Michigan, born at Plainwell, Allegan County, August 26, 1843, his parents being
William and L. E. (Noble) Still, who removed to Michigan from Rochester, New
York, in 1833.

  Our subject was reared on a farm at his native place, and educated in that
vicinity. In 1863 he left Michigan for California, making the trip by water, via
the Isthmus. Landing at San Francisco, he remained there until 1871. During that
time his business for the most part was carrying newspapers, and he was also
connected for a time with the Call, as mail clerk.

  In 1869 he bought some country property on the Arroyo Mocho, five miles from
Livermore, and when he left San Francisco in 1871 he moved upon his ranch, which
was thereafter his home for years. In 1873 he became a representative for
leading book publishers, and was so employed continuously until 1881, when he
embarked in the real-estate business in Livermore. He pushed that business as a
specialty until the establishment of the Echo, after which he began to devote
his attention more and more to the newspaper, until in January, 1889, he
practically abandoned the field of real-estate operations in order to devote his
attention, time and energy to the Echo.

  Mr. Still was married in Livermore in 1876, to Miss Annie E. Webb, a native of
San Francisco. They have four children, viz.: Clarence E., Wilber H., Elmer G.
and Irene O.

Mr. Still is a man of high intelligence, with a good deal of ability as a
newspaper man, to which he adds push and determination sufficient to render his
paper of vast importance to Livermore and its tributary territory.



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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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