[3] As vice president, Farish was in charge of production, advancing industry technology and helping the company expand rapidly.

When Humble grew short of capital for expansion, Farish turned to industry executives he had met.

He negotiated with Walter Teagle, head of Standard Oil of New Jersey (later Exxon Corporation), which paid $17 million for a slight majority of Humble in 1919, and Humble gained a market for its oil and financial backing to build in Baytown, Texas one of the world's largest refineries.

In 1926, Farish became a founder and president of the American Petroleum Institute, taking a leadership position in oil conservation.

This jointly owned venture, Ethyl GmbH, was involved with the creation of the Auschwitz labor camp on June 14, 1940, to produce artificial rubber from coal and they also built then operated tetraethyllead plants in Germany.

As part of a plea bargain, the charges were dropped in exchange for Standard Oil releasing its German patents and paying fines totaling about $50,000.

This did not interfere with the millions of dollars that Farish had profited as a large stockholder, chairman and president of Standard Oil.

He was described by Senator Harry Truman in public as approaching 'treason' for profiting from the Nazi war machine and withholding patents from the US government.

Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Forego was ranked #8 in The Blood-Horse magazine list of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century.

[11] William Stamps Farish II died at the age of 61 on November 29, 1942, in Millbrook, New York, while visiting friends; he was buried in Houston.