And to this day, I do not like to drive. William and Walter Caruth came to Texas in 1848 and founded a general store on the banks of the Trinity as a means of getting started. The Carpenters bought a house in Highland Park, and John W. began an incredible ascent in Dallas business and industry that culminated in the development of the Southland Life Insurance Company. The entire cast of Dallas lived at the Mansion while filming the first couple of seasons. He played golf, hunted, watched the market. Yeah, but I asked if youd fight a 10-1 system The question was lost, as Schoellkopf pointed to another raised hand. Johnny Schoellkopf was simply the only man with the independent wealth and the public image to take on the mantle. But Ill tell you what I believe in, he added quickly. Some of the hottest neighborhoods nearby are Oak Lawn , Old East Dallas , Las Colinas , Uptown , Lower Greenville . Once the railroads came, the banking community grew, the merchants set up shop and the ranks began to swell. Many of the magnificent furnishings were sold, with only remnants left to Sanger heirs-remembrances of an era of lost elegance. To hear Schoellkopf talk, the answer is no. He was forced to sell the hotel during the Depression; it eventually burned. Stemmons was pushing for a consensus on the CCAs mayoral candidate for 1975, and, before the men stood to shake hands all around, their nominee had been selected: John Schoellkopf. Hunt talked about how Hagman never spoke on Sundays and wore a sign around his neck saying so. Frances Mossiker, novelist and granddaughter of Alex Sang-er, recalls summers in Europe or in California or in the family cabin in Maine. . Schoellkopf, 80, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at his Dallas home. The judge and his wife raised three sons in Dallas. Harold Volk. But that didnt seem to have impressed the 100 or so prospects Schoellkopf had felt out for the nomination during the past few months. It was Stanley Marcus, in fact, who really put Neimans on the map. Ryan attended the Naveen Jindal school of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Armstrong; Prather and Edgar Flippen were developers of Highland Park. More than anything, Caroline Hunt values her family. Fellow reporters dubbed him Times Herald staff nephew, a designation that stuck for years. The three of us fell into silence. Luka Doncic-Kyrie Irving tandem clicks with joint 40-point displays in Mavs win vs. 76ers, The Cowboys are closer than you think to a total makeover at running back, Dallas Cowboys focused on adding another dynamic offensive weapon, UIL boys basketball playoffs (6A): Tre Johnson, Lake Highlands shine; DeSoto defense rises. Their son, Joe Linz, and his family are still in Dallas today. These families cared deeply about Dallas, and they gave generously to every avenue of its development. He was named attorney for Dallas County in 1875, and in 1878, he became a district judge. Updated: June 20, 2015 Biography ID: 96061937 Sign up for service and obituary updates. Four Rivers targets a wide array of real estate assets including income producing assets, future development and re-development sites, and properties in core markets and emerging communities. Two of the most elaborate mansions belonged to Philip and Alex Sanger of the Sanger Bros, department store. Caroline,her siblings and their offspring are called the first family., "I became very close to Larry [Hagman]," Hunt recollected over lunch as if it were yesterday. Stemmons could probably take care of Erik, but the silver spoon stigma would be hard to shake. As a Development Partner, he was responsible for managing development personnel and streamlining the process involved in single tenant development for entitlement, design, leasing, and construction. Nearby was the Coon Creek Club, where Mr. Schoellkopf was a lifelong member. "And he was nothing like J.R. People believe that the role actors play is what they're like. Prior to joining LegacyTexas Title, Matt worked in the petroleum industry as a Business Development Manager and Analyst specializing in acquisitions and divestitures. He was never really extravagant when I knew him. Business is cyclical. Will Caruth has seen his beloved land dramatically transformed. Theres an 18-year spread between her eldest Stephen Sands, 72, and Patrick Sands, 54. Its impossible for some to drive through North Dallas and not think of the Caruths. Her maternal grandfather Norman Washington Harllee served as the principal for the Dallas Colored High School for eleven years and was the first African American man to have a school named after him in 1929. You may find Dallas old-money heirs elusive, but rest assured that they know who they are. Thomas Field. It wears us out.. And there are others. I believe the economic well-being of a city is the key. New York had the highest population of Schoellkopf families in 1880. I hope Laurie asks her about that today. After a few months, there was little doubt in anyones mind that John could go places at the Herald. No lily-white, WASP council slate this time. Chambers had been a longtime friend of the Schoellkopf family, a distant cousin, and sometime golfing partner to his father. Brings new meaning to the phrase Sunday Funday. It would be harder than anything hed ever attempted. The passing of time, the influx of young out-of-towners, and the growing sophistication of political minorities were beginning to take their toll on the organization. Hugh Prather. His brother Edwards wife, Betty Marcus, serves on the park board, having been president of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Says Stanleys daughter, Jerrie Smith, I guess they wanted to go one further than the families on Swiss. Alex Sanger responded by offering him an additional $1.50a week. Undaunted, Sarah traveled on horseback and by carriage to appear before the legislators in person the first woman in Texas ever to do so. "From the curriculum to athletics to the arts, his vibrant energy filled every room and every project of which he was a part," said Elizabeth Lee, Hockaday's interim headmistress in a letter to faculty and staff. Instead, they decide to open a store in Dallas. He retreated to his Athens farm to raise blueberries, but now is back in Dallas. A board member once remarked to a newcomer in town, You have to watch for hidden Hig-ginbothams around Hockaday. As a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Four Rivers, James brings over 20 years of experience including owning investment grade real estate and forming Mason Properties, Co., where he focused on tenant representation, developing single tenant build-to-suits and managing existing joint ventures of income producing properties. Soon enough, Fain decided to go ahead and run. Its that feeling of belonging in a city where homegrown roots are rare. He owned the land on which the city of Carrollton grew; the family homestead was on the present site of the Preston Trails Golf Club. Writer Leon Harris, himself the scion of a Dallas department-store family (A. Harris, which later merged with Sangers), offers this rationale: The storekeepers family had to set the style for how families should live-how they should build, furnish and decorate their houses; train and costume their servants; and how they should entertain. Having made it, they now preserve it-both their heritage and their inheritance. H.L. Lucy Pearl Phelps was born in Dallas, Texas, on June 21, 1931, to John C. and Florence Harllee Phelps. The oldest money in Dallas belongs to a family whose name few 0people recognize. It was 1913 when the Rufus Higginbothams moved to a grand new house on Swiss Avenue. John Neely Bryan was described by Leon Harris in The Merchant Princes as the first in a long line of expert promoters reluctant to use hyperbole if an outright lie might prove more effective. The people were howling, but the peoples city council ignored the noise. When a group of blacks met with Schoellkopf at the Bonanza Steak House on Ledbetter some weeks ago, a young man from East Dallas pressed Schoellkopf on his attitude toward single member districts. Powerful member of the banking community and an early railway entrepreneur. There was a lot of in-fighting. When Caroline and her second husband, the late Buddy Schoellkopf, started a helicopter charter company, he honored her by naming it Pumpkin Air. The council he created has not been one to stand up and say this is right and this is wrong. Schoellkopf himself is open to the question of whether he knows the difference between what is right and what is wrong for Dallas. Financial leader, first organizer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and builder of one of the early showplaces on Turtle Creek. As he saw it, the loss to Wise was bad, but not nearly so worrisome as the close shaves some CCA council candidates had suffered in their races against unknown independents. Research genealogy for Jacob Fred Schoellkopf of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA, as well as other members of the Schoellkopf family, on Ancestry. They show us what stable wealth can mean in the exhilarating land of the fast buck. And yes, he has to be a man who is willing to stand up and say this is right and this is wrong. Thats fine rhetoric to use in a campaign against Wes Wise, and there are few people who would argue with it. Whats more, it dates back to a fortune amassed almost entirely by a woman. The public had bought his new look. Wilson Schoellkopf of University Park, an investor, died Tuesday in the Baylor University Medical Center after a long illness. It worked. Ultimately, friendship is Schoellkopfs major handle on politics, so the Turtle Creek case may not be an isolated example. He is the only one hungry enough. The crux of the problem with John Schoellkopf is suggested by the billboards he already has erected on North Central Expressway. Armstrong for development as Highland Park. . Still, he was ready to run. Prior to joining Four Rivers, Robert served as Associate Vice President within the Oil & Gas Division of the Wells Fargo Energy Group where he was responsible for structuring, underwriting, and syndicating credit facilities for midstream companies ranging from smaller, private equity backed companies to large publicly traded entities. Just how much the 94-year-old philanthropist, author, world traveler, gourmet, entrepreneur, mother of five, grandmother of 19 and great-grandmother of 21 is worth these days is anybodys guess. Her great-great-grandfather, James A. Smith, who built the first cotton gin in town, was a contemporary of John Neely Bryan. Gail Schoellkopf was married to Hugo W. Schoellkopf Iii on November 19, 1977 in Dallas County, Texas. It was his mothers, Mary Martins, birthday, Hunt said. The Burgher home stood at the present site of the Melrose Hotel. The rest of his talk was vague, but Schoellkopf sensed he was feeling him out for the CCA presidency. The tide had changed, and the swimming was getting to be tough work. Slaughter. The electorate-at-large is confused, too; its hard to determine if its confusion is the cause or the result of the CCAs suddenly blurred vision. The daughter of the man who was the Jeff Bezos of his day is not one to discuss wealth or to brandish it. It was too close to the edge, and one step over the line would leave a councilman irretrievably on the wrong side. Gottliebs two sons, J. Fred and Hugo, made sure the Schoellkopf Co. kept pace with the times. The headline-stirring meeting with the Big Boys at Republic during the summer to strong arm Aston into running had been a bust. It looked as if Schoellkopf would have to wait a few more years to enter the Inner Circle. Is Dallas becoming unaffordable due to rising housing costs, inflation and stagnating pay? He and his brothers dabbled in East Texas rural real estate. Jerrie furthers her grandfathers interest in the Dallas Historical Society as a trustee. So I said to myself, Theyll never OK this one.. He accepted the mantle. That should go some way in dispelling the idea that Ive never worked and never managed, he says today. Four Rivers, and its principals, have participated in the financing and development of more than $1Bn of real estate assets to date. She lost two sons, David Sands and John Bunker Sands, to cancer. So whats with Carolines infatuation with pumpkins? Alan Schoellkopf was married to Karen L. (Hyman) Schoellkopf on July 8, 2000 in Dallas County, Texas. It has been said that he sent his white linen collars to be laundered in New York! The meeting had been one more in a frustrating series of attempts to pinpoint a candidate. Meanwhile, back at the bank, the gentlemen who had stirred the earlier uproar were quietly reaching another decision. The Cockrell clan is scattered all over the United States. Schoellkopf knew that, too. The Carpenters-Ben Carpenter and his brother-in-law, Dan Williams, are building Las Colinas atop the ranchland where their father liked to ride and hunt. Even if they could, they couldnt be sure the public would buy it. J. Fred Schoellkopf married another Dallas fortune. Gail C Schoellkopf of Texas was born c. 1951. Win Davis. One of them was the downtown Wilson Building, now empty and the subject of a classic save it/raze it debate. The gathering was at the arboretum, right across from Mount Vernon, the Hunt familys former home on White Rock thats a lookalike of George Washingtons estate on the Potomac. If the answer was not to take Wise on, maybe there was another angle. The original idea had been to write the Great American Novel, but he didnt happen to have a friend like Chambers in the book publishing business. Neither does the memory of six fruitless months spent beating the bushes for an establishment candidate in the upcoming mayoralty race. Whatever he missed by skipping through the school of hard knocks, he makes up for with slick imitation. He conceived of the fortnights and the Christmas catalog and the advertising in Vogue. Livestock breeder, Christian minister, Texas legislator and one of Dallas leading citizens in the late 1800s. Updated: August 10, 2022 Biography ID: 68621595 But even while the general consensus agreed with the Herald old-timer who once said Schoellkopf was about as good a rich kid as you could ever find, he could never quite shake the fact that he was different. Hunt is mostly indifferent to business but was active with her hotels and her Lady Primroses line of luxury bathing and skin products. If youre locked in a traffic jam on Central, gaze in either direction and youll see what is, or once was, Caruth land. Looking at it square in the face, though, he had to admit he was more than a little scared by the whole business. Once the family was settled in, Rufus turned to the task of educating his three boys and five girls. THE FIRST fortunes in Dallas were amassed by the men and women who had the fortitude to stick around a town that had no real reason to be. Hugo W. Schoellkopf, retired chairman of the board and president of The Schoellkopf Co., one of Dallas' oldest business institutions, died here Thursday. Wilson Schoellkopf Jr. was a Dallas businessman and investor who built on his family's foundation of philanthropy. And he still is, because Dallas has been shown all over the world. "He was an outstanding golfer with the most outrageous swing you have ever seen.". Robert Munger. Knight descendants abound and are interwoven through marriage with Hughes, Cochran and Field families. Frieda Schoellkopf Mayfield, 76, of 4616 St. Johns Drive, member of a pioneer Dallas Family and widow of Morgan M. Mayfield, died unexpectedly Tuesday at a Dallas hospital after suffering a. Can you have any philosophy? Those who invested in real estate quickly grew rich. When Sarah Horton Cockrell died, her real-estate holdings were so vast that her will was printed in a 24-page pamphlet. He attended the University Park Elementary School, Texas Country Day (later St. Marks) and graduated from the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He would often quite innocently forget to pick up his Herald paychecks, not out of any snobbishness, but because his family money was more than sufficient; he just didnt pay much attention to things like salary. Sawnies wife, Mary Batts, was the first president of the Dallas County Heritage Society. He resided at 4300 Versailles. He still defends his candidates, saying This council has been the most open-minded and hardworking council weve ever had. But then the questions start coming, and he sidesteps: I regret it hasnt produced more of the things it has talked about and studied. It seems that young George was an accomplished athlete, who had let his grades slide. He wanted his fresh vegetables, and he wanted his healthy food. One house built on Ross Avenue in 1894 boasted the only private art gallery in the Southwest. Chances are the show will hit Broadway the same way. My play area was up in the attic [in the family home in Tyler]. It was even more fun to say the right things when you had no fear of being on the wrong side, when you were wrapped in the comfort of the establishments blanket. Philips daughter, Lois, in what was considered a most fortunate match, married into another of Dallas distinguished families, the Linzes, founders of the jewelry store. Philip was a formal, dignified man the brains behind the business-who reportedly enjoyed extravagance. Id have to talk to the attorneys. At the same time, they began buying acreage to the north of town. And, of course, there was Erik Jonsson. Your entry has exceeded the maximum character limit. Clothes were her passion. They obviously werent going to be able to talk any of the old fogeys into it. There are literally scores of Higginboth-ams around Dallas, and theyre a close-knit clan. No expense was spared. The brothers were canny businessmen, and before long they felt it was time to take on Dallas. Except when hes pinned down. The first fancy residential suburb was in South Dallas, a few blocks from downtown and the present site of the new city hall. The New York thing did not work in Texas, Harrison continued. John Schoellkopf as mayor would be more interesting to watch than John Schoellkopf as candidate. Schoellkopfs cosmetics were simple enough: If the voting public thought the CCA too cliquish, all he had to do was open up the process a little, devise neighborhood meetings where every Tom, Dick and Harry of every race, color and creed could come and apply for nomination to the slate. You like what you ate as a child. For the past several months, hed been trying to do just that. But politics, at the minimum, must be taken seriously by politicians. What a way to launch a campaign against Wes Wise. Suite 2100 Prior to Four Rivers, James was a real estate manager for In-N-Out Burger and lead their expansion and roll-out outside of California where he oversaw site selection, sourcing of development opportunities, contract negotiation, and financial underwriting. It was an opportunity the establishment could not afford to pass up. As the campaign progresses, you can bet hell learn the right words and moves. Im going to have to dodge that one, he finally said. A fortune built on land and oil; he was chairman of the Republic National Bank of Dallas and a founder of the Texas Country Day School, a forerunner to St. Marks. Wilson grew rich in Dallas through shrewd investments-mostly real estate. She had one sister, Norma. L. Craddock. Hed blown the Zeder-Weber thing: Fred had played too much the heavy, and Garry had spent more money than a council candidate should. In response to Straight's gift, members of the Schoellkopf family and the Zeta Psi Fraternity donated $70,000 (equivalent to $1,894,000 in 2021) for the construction of Schoellkopf Field in honor of the Schoellkopf family patriarch, Jacob Schoellkopf, Schoellkopf Field was completed in 1915. Previously Brian worked at Whitley Penn, LLP, a public accounting firm based in North Texas, as part of its Tax and Consulting Services group.