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Dr. W. B. CONNATE, the only resident physician of the Santa Ynez Valley, was born at Edinburgh, Johnson County,
Indiana, in 1854. His father was a farmer and distiller. The subject of this sketch was educated at the Sturgeon
High School of Boone County, Missouri, but was taken from school in 1870 to accept a position with P. Corrigan,
who was then general roadmaster of the Wabash Railroad, with headquarters at Moberly, Missouri, remaining two years
and learning telegraphy. He was then employed by the Western Union Telegraph Company, for five years, at stations
throughout the southwest. Having a desire for a medical education, he employed every odd moment in medical studies,
and in 1877 he resigned his position to enter the Medical University of Louisiana, at New Orleans, taking the three
years' course and also the special course of toxicology and chemistry, graduating with honor in 1881. He then went
to Queen City, Cass County, Texas, where he practiced for two years, and in 1883 he came direct to Santa Inez,
to grow up with the new town, which was then being established. He now has an extensive practice throughout the
valley. In 1885 he built his present residence, and in September of the same year was married, at Santa Ynez, to
Miss Mabel Johnston, a daughter of W. F. Johnston, an extensive rancher of Santa Maria and also a descendant of
that celebrated family of Johnstons of Virginia. Doctor and Mrs. Connane have one child.
From:
A Memorial and Biographical History
of the counties of
Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo
and Ventura, California
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago 1891
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