Meet Dr. Horace Hobart Hollister (1841 – 1932)

Dr. Hollister was one of South Bergen’s pioneer physicians and a resident of Rutherford for more than 40 years. Dr. Hollister received his medical degree from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York in 1862. He came to Rutherford in the early 1870s and lived at 168 Chestnut Street which is now the home of the “The Rutherford Schoolhouse”, a popular Day Care Center. Dr. Hollister had a wide practice throughout South Bergen and was known to thousands of settlers in the boroughs. Dr. Hollister took an active part in the building of Rutherford and was once Rutherford’s Republican Candidate for Mayor and was defeated in a three-corner fight. Dr. Hollister retired from his medical practice in 1910 and remained in Rutherford until 1915 when he moved to Wyoming to be with his children, Dwight Hollister, an attorney, and daughter Miss Maude Hollister.  On May 31, 1932, Dr. Hollister died in Cody, Wyoming at the age of 91 years old and was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst.

Photo of Dr. Horace Hobart Hollister, Courtesy of Hamilton College (Clinton, NY) Archives, “Class Album with photographs of buildings, faculty members and students (1862).”

Photo of 168 Chestnut Street, “The Rutherford Schoolhouse”, Courtesy of Google.