Santa Barbara County Biographies

W. C. SHOW

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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W. C. SHOW, one of the most enterprising men of Santa Barbara, was born and brought 
up in California, and has been in Santa Barbara twenty-two years, and in business there 
five years, carrying  a general line of groceries, crockery, glassware, hay, grain and feed. His 
parents, Major Daniel and Eliza J. (Harvey) Show, were natives of Virginia, and had only 
two children, namely, the subject of this sketch and Ella, who married W. L. Hunt; the latter 
Daniel Show is in business with Mr. Show. Daniel Show was a fanner by occupation, a grain 
raiser principally; came to the Pacific coast in 1850, locating in "Washington Territory, and 
shortly afterward he went to Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. He died at Santa 
Barbara in October, 1871. Mr. Show's mother is still living, in Santa Barbara, on Gutierrez 
or Railroad street. Mr. Show is a strict business man, taking no part in politics, and 
is an exemplary citizen. 

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.