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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

A. STEINBECK, a well-known citizen of Hollister, is a native of Germany, having
been born there November 27, 1832. He learned the cabinet-maker's trade in his
native country, and at the age of seventeen he, with an older brother and
sister, emigrated to Palestine, and he remained for eight years in the old city
of Jerusalem, where he worked at his trade and acted as an interpreter of the
English, German and Arabic languages.

  In this far-off land, June 1, 1856, our subject was married to Almira, a
daughter of Walter A. Dickson, at that time an independent missionary. In 1858
Mr. and Mrs. Steinbeck went to Massachusetts, which was the native place of the
latter, she having been born in that State, in the town of Grafton. Soon after
their arrival they went to Florida and located at St. Augustine. When the late
war broke put our subject was pressed into service, and served in the
Confederate army one year. He was then taken prisoner, but paroled and joined
his young wife and two children, who had made her way to her Northern home. He
remained in Massachusetts for ten years, engaged at his trade in a piano
factory, and then came, in November, 1872, to California and located in
Hollister, where he has since lived. Mr. and Mrs. Steinbeck have had five sons,
namely: Charles, agent for the Southern Pacific Company, at Templeton. This son
was born in Joppa, Palestine, April 27, 1857. The next child, Herbert E., is an
employee of the Central Milling Company, of Hollister, and he was born in
Plainfield, New Jersey, August 6, 1859. Ernest, the third, represents the
interests of the Central Milling Company at King City, and was born in
Massachusetts, in 1862. Wilhelm is superintendent of the Victor Mills of
Hollister, and was born in Massachusetts, February 4, 1865. Harry, the youngest,
is at Santa Margarita, California, and was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts,
October 5, 1857.

  Our subject is regarded as a man of sound principles and good business
judgment, a character that he has transmitted to his sons. He lives in one of
the finest villas in the city 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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