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A. H. WOOLLACOTT
WOOLLACOTT, A. H., Stocks and Bonds, Los Angeles, California, was born July 22, 1884, at Los Angeles, the son of H. J. Woollacott and Mary D. Woollacott.
H. J. Woollacott, the father, was for twenty years a stock broker and for many years president of one of the larger trust and banking companies of Los Angeles. He was eminently successful and became known throughout the United States. He was a broker on Wall Street in New York at one time, and in Los Angeles became active in real estate to the extent that he was among the largest tax payers of the city for years.
A. H. Woollacott, was educated in the schools of Los Angeles, and when he was given the choice of a course at the university or in practical business experience, chose the latter. He went into his father’s offices, and learned the details of the brokerage business. He took charge of his father’s business in 1907, and the firm is counted one of the most substantial. With the development of Los Angeles as the center of the oil industry of Southern California, and of the Nevada gold fields, the business has greatly increased. He maintains a private wire to San Francisco and deals extensively in bonds.
Mr. Woollacott has inherited a large estate from his father, and a large part of his time is spent in looking after its administration. He has became (sic) largely interested in Mexican copper. He is a director of the Los Angeles Jalisco Mines Company, secretary and treasurer of the Butte Lode Mining Company, president of Mojave Mining and Milling Company and secretary of the California Warehouse Company.
He is a member of the South Coast Yacht Club, the Jonathan Club and the Los Angeles Stock Exchange.
Transcribed 5-31-10
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 430, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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