San Benito County CA Archives Biographies.....Hollister, W. W. 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

  *Colonel W. W. Hollister was a native of Licking county, Ohio. He was a man of
great force and decision of character. He brought a flock of sheep across the
great plains as early as the year 1851, which was no trifling undertaking. He
sold these sheep in Santa Clara county, and went back and brought out with his
brother, Hubbard, and a sister, Mrs. Brown, who accompanied them, another flock
of 8,000 sheep, 150 cattle and 100 horses in 1853. This time he started from
Missouri April 1, 1853, and arrived in Los Angeles about February 1, 1854, with
6,000 of the sheep, having been on the road ten months. The route traveled was
by way of the Platte, Great Salt Lake, Mountain Meadows, Armargosa, and the
Canon Pass. W. H. Perry and C. P. Switzer, since then residents of Los Angeles,
came with the Hollister party.

  Colonel Hollister took the sheep north, and went into the business of breeding
improved sheep on an extensive scale. Eventually, with others, he bought the San
Justo ranch in the San Benito valley, then a portion of Monterey county.

  Other parties with sheep, Thomas Flint and Jotham and Llewellyn Bixby, came at
the same time by the same route, and all three parties kept near each other and
co-operated together, in overcoming difficulties, and in defense against the
Indians, etc.

  Colonel Hollister was a man of education. He was engaged in mercantile
pursuits before he came to California. He died in Santa Barbara a few years ago,
where his widow and sister still live. His brother died eight or ten years since.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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