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ID: 500444658
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500444658

 

Record Type: Person
de Blois Wack, John J. (American stockbroker and rancher, 1902-1992)

Note: Son of the founder of Field & Stream magazine and a stockbroker, rancher and horseman. His early years were spent on the East Coast, where he was a partner in a Wall Street firm. He built a golf course, yacht club and airport in the Adirondacks before moving to Santa Barbara in 1930. He lived on Yolo Farm on the Hope Ranch there while operating a cattle ranch in Arizona. After service in the counterintelligence corps in World War II he began Yolo stable. One of his horses was the first American entry to win the Australian Jockey Club Derby. He also was a founder of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.

Names:
de Blois Wack, John J. (preferred,U,index)
John J. de Blois Wack (U,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
stockbroker (preferred)
rancher
owner

Gender: male

Events:
active:   London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  de Blois Wack, John J. (I,U)

Biographies:
(American stockbroker and rancher, 1902-1992) ..... [PROV Preferred]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
de Blois Wack, John J. ........ [PROV Preferred]
..........................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
John J. de Blois Wack ........ [PROV, VP]
........................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [PROV, VP]
....................  LA Times, Feb 22 1992
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Los Angeles Times [online] (2017-) obit.
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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