San Benito-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....McCroskey, John A. 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

J. A. McCROSKEY, an early settler and an influential business man of Hollister,
has been a resident of California since 1859. His father, John McCroskey, was a
native of Sevier county, Tennessee; was born about thirty miles east of
Knoxville, March 17, 1798. He was a farmer by occupation, a man of local
influence, and of great character. He was twice married, first to Miss Lucinda
Ann, a daughter of Reuben Grant, a merchant of Shelbyville, Tennessee, who was
for several years Sheriff of Monroe county, Tennessee. Mrs. McCroskey was born
in 1799. She bore four children, of whom Mrs. M. A. McCray, widow of the late
Daniel McCray, of Hollister, is the oldest. One other now survives, viz.: J. P.
T. McCroskey, of Washington. The mother died in 1833. In 1836 Mr. McCroskey
married Mrs. Priscilla McCray, a daughter of Harry McCray, by whom he had six
sons and two daughters, viz.: John A., subject; Pentalope, Henry M., Robert C,
Frances, Thomas H., Benjamin B., and Edgar H. Of these children our subject and
Benjamin, who is located in Hollister, are the only ones in California.

  When our subject came to California he located at San Jose, and later lived at
Gilroy and engaged in farming. Upon the formation of the San Justo Homestead
Association and the division of the Hollister Grant, he came to San Benito
county, and was the original settler on 172 acres of farming land, adjoining the
town site. Here he remained for about eight years, when he engaged in the
warehouse and grain shipping business, which he followed about nine years. At
that time he leased his property to the Hollister Warehouse Company and retired
from business, and now devotes his time to the care of an eight-acre fruit farm,
his home in the city of Hollister and other business affairs.

  His marriage occurred at Gilroy, in 1863, to Elizabeth F. Howkins. This lady
has borne her husband six children, five living and one deceased. All the living
children are residing at home. Two are teachers in the public schools of San
Benito county. Our subject has been a successful business man, and has the
confidence and esteem of the entire community.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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