Collected facts about Arthur Bourne, first owner of Duesenberg J-186 [work in progress]

Arthur Keeler Bourne, son of Arthur Keeler and Edith (Hollins) Bourne, and grandson of Frederick Gilbert  Bourne, president of the The Singer Sewing Machine Company, born 3 June 1899, probably in New York, and died October 1974, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  He married Beatrice R. Clancy, daughter of John F. Clancy, 20 September 1922 in Center Moriches, Long Island.

He owned various properties across the country:

House in Pasadena.
Estate in Glendora
San Marino - Interior design of a sprawling 11,000 square foot Andalusian style residence. Known as the "Arthur K. Bourne Residence", designed in 1925 by Wallace Neff.
Residence in Reno?
Sheriff in Salt Lake CIty

Frederick Gilbert Bourne (1851-1919), president of the Singer Manufacturing Company (Singer Corporation), made that business "perhaps the first modern multinational industrial enterprise of any nationality." Bourne greatly expanded global production as well as international sales of the Singer sewing machine. Bourne is also remembered as the "world-wide pioneer of installment selling" and "among the most important innovators in building vertically integrated firms." Bourne built Dark Island Castle on one of the Thousand Islands.