the base of a small hill known today as Park Hill. He remained at Rancho San Justo for 14 years before selling the South Valley ranch for $370,000 and moved south with his family to raise sheep in the Santa Barbara region of California, settling on the eastern portion of the former Mexican land grant Rancho Dos Pueblos, purchased from the estate of Nicolas A. Den in 1862 and renamed Glen Annie Ranch after his wife. Colonel Hollister, in partnership with brothers Thomas and Albert Dibblee, bought several other land grants in Santa Barbara County, including Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio, Rancho Lompoc, Rancho Las Cruces, Rancho Cañada de Salsipuedes, Rancho San Julian, and Rancho Mission Vieja de la Purisma. In the 1870s the Dibblee-Hollister partnership was dissolved and the lands and livestock divided. Rancho Lompoc and Rancho Mission Vieja de la Purisima were sold. Rancho Cañada de Salsipuedes, Rancho Las Cruces, and Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio went to Hollister. Family Hollister married Annie Hannah James on June 18, 1862, in San Francisco, California. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas Starr King, who was a Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War. The couple had six children. A grandson, John J. Hollister, Jr., became an agriculturalist, biologist and California state senator. Death William Welles Hollister died on August 8, 1886, age 68, at Santa Barbara, California and is buried in the Santa Barbara Cemetery. Legacy During the 1870s, William Hollister made many contributions to the Santa Barbara area including helping to finance and develop the Arlington Hotel, the local newspaper Santa Barbara News-Press, Stearns Wharf, and the Lobero Theatre. The main street of Goleta, California, once part of Glen Annie Ranch, is named Hollister Avenue. In 1959, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. See also Hollister Ranch References External links San Benito County Chamber of Commerce History Brief History of San Benito County Businesspeople from California American real estate businesspeople Land owners from California 1818 births 1886 deaths Kenyon College alumni People from Goleta, California People from Hollister, California Ranchers from California People from Licking County, Ohio