The following is text taken from the Cyclopedia of Victoria and is a short biography of James Hector Wishart, who was born during 1870 in Victoria and was the son of Andrew Wishart from Shetland, Scotland. James died aged 80 in 1950.

General Storekeeper, Allendale, conducting one of the largest businesses in the Creswick district, was born in March, 1870, and educated in the local schools. At an early age he joined his father, the late Mr. Andrew Wishart, in the present business, which had been established by that gentleman in 1880. On the death of Mr. Wishart, sen., in 1896, he took over the business in conjunction with his brother, Mr. Robert Wishart, who, however, resigned at the end of two years in order to proceed to South Africa, where he fought from start to finish of the Boer War, and had the honor of commanding the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles at the Coronation celebrations. Since then the business has been conducted by Mr. James Wishart. He is a member of the Creswick Shire Council, and an ex-president of the local branch of the A.N.A.; also for a number of years he filled the office of president of the local Free Library and Mechanics’ Institute.