Famous People with Name Hollister

Brett Hollister            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Brett Hollister: is a former New Zealand rowing cox who won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

William Welles Hollister            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Welles Hollister: was a Californian rancher and Entrepreneur.In 1852, Hollister sold his farm and stock of goods and purchased two or three hundred head of cattle and started across the plains for California, where he sold his cattle and returned immediately to Ohio.In 1854 he, along with his brother Joseph Hubbard Hollister, his sister, L. A. Brown, as well as an additional fifty men, and four women with Mrs. Brown, led the first large trans-continental sheep drive, bringing 10,000 merino sheep from Hanover, Licking County, Ohio. The plan was to supply miners during the California Gold Rush with meat. The party took a southern route from Salt Lake City in order to avoid the winter snows of the Sierra Nevada. Traveling through New Mexico and Arizona, they pastured their flocks for a year near what is now Santa Barbara. Although only about a thousand sheep survived, Hollister was able to make a considerable fortune when wool prices spiked during the Civil War, as well as catering to those who searched for gold.

Nancy Putnam Hollister            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nancy Putnam Hollister: is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. Hollister was the first, and to this date only, female Governor of Ohio. She attended Kent State University, and upon leaving college she became a housewife. She began her political career in the 198