San Benito-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....McCray, Daniel 1814 - 1888
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

DANIEL McCRAY, deceased, a well-known and highly respected pioneer of
California, who settled in Hollister in 1873, with the best interests of which
he was identified for many years, was born in Washington county, Tennessee, June
14, 1814. His father, Henry McCray, was a well-to-do farmer of Tennessee, where
he also was born, and passed a long and useful life in that State.

  Daniel McCray passed his early years on the home farm, and attended the common
schools in his vicinity. He was reared to agricultural pursuits, which he
followed uninterruptedly during his entire life. In 1857, he removed with his
family to California, crossing the plains in the usual emigrant fashion and
experiencing the hardships and vicissitudes common to all. Arrived in the Golden
State, he settled on land near San Jose, where he pursued farming for many
years. Having been favorably impressed with Hollister and the surrounding
country, he removed, in 1873, to a farm of eighty acres in that vicinity. He was
here successfully occupied in agricultural pursuits until his death, January 4,
1888. Perhaps no one could have been called hence whose loss would have been
more keenly felt by the community in which he had passed so many useful years of
his life. Of the highest integrity, unusual intelligence and uniform courtesy,
he was a general favorite with all who knew him.

  He was married in Monroe county, Tennessee, October 17, 1837, to Miss Malinda
McCooky, daughter of J. A. McCooky, a highly respected resident of that county,
and sister to John McCooky, an influential business man of Hollister. There are
live living children: Julia F., now Mrs. John Weathers of San Jose; Frank P. and
Victor, civil engineers, living in Arizona; Harry W., an architect and civil
engineer, of Bakersfield, Kern county, California; and Ella, a teacher in the
public schools of Hollister. Mrs. McCray lives in Hollister and enjoys the
esteem of a large circle of friends.


Additional Comments:
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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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