San Benito-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Oliver, William H. 1841 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

WIILLIAM H. OLIVER came to California in the fall of 1861, and is a native of
Bath, Maine, where he was born November 7, 1841. His father, Benjamin Oliver,
was a farmer, and dealer in stock and farm and timbered lands. Our subject came
to California via the Isthmus of Panama and went to the mines in Humboldt
county, Nevada. At the expiration of six months he returned to California and
resided there until 1868 at San Jose. In the fall of that year he removed and
located near Hollister, and engaged in the raising of grain, fruit and stock, in
which he has been very successful. He now owns a fertile farm of 285 acres, all
grain and fruit land; a thrifty young orchard is on the place, besides his
farming property near Hollister. He also has large real-estate interests in
Pacific Grove, Monterey county. In 1876 he married Miss Luella, eldest daughter
of the Rev. D. A. Dryden, a well-known clergyman of Gilroy. They have two
children: Ruth Elinor and Edith Bernice, aged, respectively, fifteen and twelve.
This family is highly respected throughout the entire neighborhood.

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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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