Background
Jim Wilmot was raised in Rochester, New York, the son of James Butler Wilmot and Josephine O"Leary. His father owned a small chain of clothing stores.
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Jim Wilmot was raised in Rochester, New York, the son of James Butler Wilmot and Josephine O"Leary. His father owned a small chain of clothing stores.
The Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester is named in his honor. Beginning his career as an employee of Rochester Municipal Airport, he started a pilot-training company called Page Airways. The company would grow to become an international aviation sales corporation that was the exclusive agent for Grumman Corporation"s Gulfstream G2 jets.
At one time the Wilmots owned the historic racetrack Freehold Raceway in New Jersey.
In 1974, one of his and his brother"s horses, Gold and Myrrh, sired by Damascus, ran in the 100th Kentucky Derby, and he met special guest His Royal Highness the Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth World War II