LICKING COUNTY OHIO
*************************************************************

Transcribed by Deb.


"Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888)

Licking County
Page 89

     Hubert Howe Bancroft was born in Granville, May 5, 1832.  He entered the 
book-store of his brother-in-law at Buffalo, in 1848, and four years later 
removed to California and established a branch store.  While there he gathered 
an immense amount of valuable books and documents relating to the early history 
of the Pacific coast.  He also preserved much pioneer and other valuable 
historic matter, which was dictated to him or his assistants, by pioneers, 
settlers, and others.  His valuable library numbers nearly 50,000 volumes.  His 
business affairs were prosperous, and in 1868 he retired from the management of 
his business, and has since been engaged on a series of publications, embracing 
the history of the whole Pacific coast from Central America to Alaska.  This 
completed work will consist of thirty-nine volumes, about half of which have 
already been published.