Sam Carnes Collier

ABOUT SAM CARNES COLLIER

American businessman who built his career and his fortune on streetcar advertisements. Also a race car enthusiast, he founded the Automobile Racing Club of America.

After attending Yale University, he joined the United States Navy and served as a pilot in World War II.

He was killed while racing his Ferrari in the September, 1950 Watkins Glen Grand Prix.

His parents, Juliet Gordon Carnes and Barron Gift Collier, founded Collier County, Florida. With his wife, Dixie Thompson, Sam Collier had two children: Richard and Terry.

Collier had a career in streetcar advertising, while poet Ogden Nash had an early-career day job as a writer of streetcar advertisements.