Jack Mitchell (banker)

[3] William married Chicago socialite Ginevra King—the first love of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald—and inspired the character of Thomas "Tom" Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.

[1] In 1929 Mitchell bought a large property on Zaca Lake near Santa Barbara, California, and named it Rancho Juan y Lolita.

[6] Together with some friends, he organized a group Los Rancheros Visitadores, which held annual California horseback treks, attracting over 700 riders.

[6] In 1938, Los Rancheros acquired the Covarrubias Adobe from historian and author John Southworth for $15,000, and they undertook reconstruction and strengthening of the house in 1940.

[6] In 1921, Mitchell married J. Ogden Armour's only child Lolita at the family's estate in the upper-class enclave of Lake Forest, Illinois.