San Luis Obispo County Biographies

JOHN ABERNETHY 

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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ABERNETHY BROS, are the leading livery and feed stable men of El Paso 
de Robles, and they are also prominent in the rearing of horses and cattle. The three 
brothers were born in the north part of the County Tipperary, Ireland, � John in 1848, 
Edward in 1849 and Joseph in 1851. Edward came to America in 1868, Joseph in 1869 
and John in 1873. They took up Government land, 480 acres, in Monterey County, 
built upon it a residence, etc., and raised stock and grain for seven years, when they 
sold out and came to their present place of residence. Here they bought lots and erected 
the buildings they occupy, their establishment being known as the Fashion Stables. 
They have ten carriages and thirty-five head of horses. They also have a ranch, where 
they are raising cattle and horses, of which John is in charge, while Joseph and Edward 
conducts the business in town. They own a tine French-Canadian Messenger horse and 
several valuable brood mares, and they are raising some good horses. In their political 
views these gentlemen are Democratic, and in religious matters they were brought up in 
the doctrines of the Established Church of England. Edward Abernethy is married and 
has five children. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.