San Benito-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Snibley, William 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

WILLIAM SNIBLEY.—Few men have seen more of frontier life than William Snibley,
one of Hollister's old settlers. He was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania, son
of Jacob Snibley, a German by birth, who came to America in 1832, with his wife
and one child, a daughter. He located on a farm in Pennsylvania, where he lived
about three years, and then emigrated to Du Page county, Illinois, where he
remained until 1850, when, with the subject of this sketch, he crossed the
plains via St Jo, Missouri, and Salt Lake, with a two-horse team. The trip
occupied about four months, and they arrived at Hangtown, now Placerville,
August 4. Here they spent two years in the mines, and then returned home, where
the father died. The mother had already passed away, in 1849. She left ten
children to mourn her loss, of whom William was the second born and oldest living.

  Our subject has passed through all the vicissitudes of pioneer life in a new
country. His boyhood, youth and manhood have all been spent in the frontier
settlements of the various States in which he has lived. Born with a strong
constitution, he withstood physical hardships that would have wrecked a less
vigorous man. After the death of his father, he returned to California and
resumed mining, which he followed in its various branches until about 1869.
During this time he spent much time in hunting wild game, and was known
throughout the camp as a "crack shot."

  He came to San Benito in 1869 and engaged in farming and stock-raising near
Hollister. He now owns and conducts one of the livery and feed stables in
Hollister.

  Our subject was married, in 1890, to Narcissa Vargas, a daughter of Don
Francisco Vargas, a native of Spain, who lived many years in Mexico, and later
in Monterey county. He was prominent in the business circles of Monterey, and
was an intelligent and enterprising man. Mrs. Snibley was born in Monterey,
where she received a good education. She is recognized as a lady possessing fine
domestic traits. She has presented her husband with one daughter. Three brothers
are mentioned elsewhere in this volume, and they are residents of Hollister.



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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