Sidney Webster Fish
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Capt. Sidney Webster Fish | |
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_headshot_in_1919.png) Capt. Fish, 1919 | |
| Born | March 16, 1885 |
| Died | February 2, 1950 (aged 64) |
| Education | Groton School |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Columbia Law School |
| Spouses | Olga Martha Wiborg
(m. 1915; died 1937)Esther Foss Moore Roark
(m. 1939) |
| Children | Sidney Stuyvesant Fish |
| Parent(s) | Stuyvesant Fish Marian Graves Anthon Fish |
| Relatives | Hamilton Fish (grandfather) Nicholas Fish II (uncle) Hamilton Fish II (uncle) Hamilton Fish III (cousin) Hamilton Fish (cousin) |
Sidney Webster Fish (March 16, 1885 – February 5, 1950) was an American lawyer and military officer who retired from the law and moved to California, becoming a rancher at the Palo Corona Ranch.
Fish was born on March 16, 1885, in New York City and was named after his uncle, Sidney Webster.[a] A member of the prominent Fish family, he was the youngest of four children of Stuyvesant Fish (1851–1923) and Marian Graves Anthon Fish (1853–1915), a leader of "The 400". His two surviving siblings were Marian Anthon Fish (1880–1944),[3][4] who married (and divorced) Albert Zabriskie Gray (a son of Judge John Clinton Gray,[5][6][7] and Stuyvesant Fish Jr.,[8] who married Isabelle Mildred Dick (a daughter of Evans R. Dick.[9] Another brother, Livingston Fish, was born and died before Sidney was born.[10]
His paternal grandparents were Hamilton Fish, the 16th Governor of New York, a U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State,[11][b] and Julia Ursin Niemcewicz (née Kean) Fish (sister of Col. John Kean), a descendant of New Jersey governor William Livingston.[14] His maternal grandparents were Sarah Attwood (née Meert) Athon and Gen. William Henry Anthon, a successful lawyer and Staten Island Assemblyman who was a son of jurist John Anthon.[15]
Fish prepared for college at Groton School before graduating from Harvard University, in 1908, and then Columbia Law School.[16]
Career
After his admission to the bar, he practiced law until 1928.[16] He was a partner in the firm of Colgate, Parker & Co. with Craig Colgate, Prescott Erskine Wood, Henry S. Parker, Frank Hamilton Davis and Darragh A. Park. In 1921, the firm reorganized as Parker & Company when Colgate, Wood and special partner Louis du Pont Irving withdrew; Fish then became a special partner.[17]
Later life
In April 1927, Fish and his wife Olga purchased over 1,000 acres (400 ha), which they named the Palo Corona Ranch in Carmel Valley, California. The ranch was part of the Rancho San José y Sur Chiquito Mexican land grant to the west, with some inland areas within the Rancho Potrero de San Carlos land grant. Fish built a home and ranch on the property and ran a herd of Hereford cattle. In 1929, the ranch barn was designed and built by M. J. Murphy.
In the 1940s, the film National Velvet was partly filmed at the ranch. In the 1930s, Fish hosted Charles Lindbergh at the ranch and, in 1965, his son hosted Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowden at the ranch for dinner.[18] After his son's death, the ranch passed to his widow, Diana Fish.[19][20]
