San Benito-Yuba-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Wright, John 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JOHN WRIGHT, of Hollister, is a successful farmer of San Benito county and a
pioneer of the State, having crossed the plains from Wabash county, Indiana, in
1854. He is a native of Ireland, corning to America in 1848. His first place of
residence was New York, where he remained until 1852, and then spent the next
two years in Indiana. Upon his arrival in California he resided in Yuba and
Sierra counties, where he followed mining until he came to Hollister and became
one of the original purchasers of a fraction of the Hollister grant. His present
holdings comprise 344 acres of fertile soil adjoining the town corporation.

  Mr. Wright is one of the most popular of the citizens of his county, and
enjoys the esteem and respect of all who know him.


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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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