In 1941, Clark J. Bonner of the Montana Land Company (see Monlaco Road) named Conant and Cover streets after two Douglas Aircraft executives, as Douglas was building a $12 million plant nearby. Conant Street honors Frederic Warren “Ted” Conant (1892-1974), then-assistant manager and VP of manufacturing at Douglas. A Santa Barbara boy, Conant earned a civil engineering degree at Cornell in 1914 and joined the Army Corps of Engineers in 1918, right as he married Dorothy Davis (1891-1983). He was discharged in 1921 and the couple moved to L.A., where they had two sons and built their forever home on Beachwood Drive. Conant was initially a building contractor, but sailing was his passion and he won a slew of local races. This attracted the attention of Douglas Aircraft founder Donald W. Douglas, who in 1932 hired Conant to skipper his new yacht the Gallant. Months later, the two were on the silver medal-winning sailing team at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Conant joined Douglas Aircraft as an engineer the following year. He was vice chairman of the board when he retired in 1960.
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