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. Antiques are not considered precious until a century has gone by. He is survived by Catherine, his wife of 46 years, and four children, Sarah Bloom and her husband, Sam; Laura Hornbach and her husband, Matthew; Amy Langford and her husband, James; and son Mark Schoellkopf and his wife, Jessica; and six grandchildren; Dulany and Oliver Bloom, Luke and Wilson Hornbach, and Hannah and Cecelia Langford. Larry was the self-proclaimed most famous actor in the world. She became one with White Rock Lake, Harrison interjected. Brian attended Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University where he graduated with a Master of Accounting and Bachelor of Business Administration. 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. Why, then, does it seem that the Higgin-bothams are among the oldest of the old money? The Schoellkopfs. ADDRESS:4514 Cole Ave Suite 1220Dallas, TX 75205. The former mayor was dead set against Schoellkopf because of the youve-never-worked-a-day-in-your-life stigma. Their son, Joe Linz, and his family are still in Dallas today. Hunt is mostly indifferent to business but was active with her hotels and her Lady Primroses line of luxury bathing and skin products. Jonsson and Stemmons were furious. Having made it, they now preserve it-both their heritage and their inheritance. My husband must have been a little bit colorblind, because he painted the helicopters bright orange. No sense risking another humiliating defeat at the hands of Wes Wise, especially when Wise was proving to be harmless. Several years ago, the Higginbothams published a cookbook of family recipes for their friends, entitled This Little Higgy Went To Market. Some of the hottest neighborhoods nearby are Oak Lawn , Old East Dallas , Las Colinas , Uptown , Lower Greenville . Im conservative on some issues and liberal on others, hes fond of repeating. In a way, he said, turning to me, Im more worried about Schoellkopf at City Hall than I ever have been about Wise. Sarah Horton Cockrell and Alexander Cockrell came to Dallas for an important reason: They owned it. Then young Alexander was shot in the back on Main Street by a town deputy who owed him $200 and, presumably, didnt want to pay. But leisure was not their only pursuit. The history of his sister, Carrie Neiman, whose superb taste and sense of fashion were to imprint generations of Dallas women. Keith is an active member of ICSC, The Real Estate Council, and the Knights of Columbus. What was needed was a toll bridge, she said, but many of Dallas leading businessmen disagreed. Unis mentioned that CCA President Dow Hamm wanted out. And, no surprise, a great many of those families are still around. Those wishing to make gifts of remembrance might consider the The Boys and Girls Club of Metropolitan Dallas or Texas Scottish Rite Hospital. The headline-stirring meeting with the Big Boys at Republic during the summer to strong arm Aston into running had been a bust. The Schoellkopf name was as good as gold in Dallas. Judging by the lavish houses, the social revelry and the philanthropy, early Dallas had many families that would qualify as rich. (Some of this land is still the subject of intense zoning fights at City Hall.) We always had a vegetable garden even at one place where we had very little land, so it was back on the alley. They have more money. Chambers would remain as publisher on a long and lucrative contract- which the Times had also offered Schoellkopf-but things would never be the same. The CCA had to defeat Wise in the next election; it was, in their minds, a matter of vital importance to the city. John Lingo Schoellkopf, a fourth generation Dallasite, died December 8, 2018 from heart complications. Her parents were Lila Tenison Craddock and Dan. Schoellkopf was the loyal nephew who could also afford to play the prodigal son. The older men seemed too tired, too lethargic, or too out-of-touch. C.C. Tennessee lawyer, developer of North Dallas residential plots and original supporter of the massive and successful Trinity River Reclamation Project. Schoellkopf was a member and former chairman of Brook Hollow Golf Club and the Trans-Mississippi Golf Association. He wanted his fresh vegetables, and he wanted his healthy food. Not only had Aston turned his friends down cold, but the press had jumped on it with relish. They made a difference and inspired others to do the same. The Higginbothams have been doing well in this market for most of this century. Her mother gave us a sweet, knowing smile. 1943 July 14, 1943. Hunt has the reputation for having spunky wit and being Hunt-family frugal, yet highly refined when it comes to food, clothing and her way with words. Cheryl, a journalism graduate of SMU, has covered business for more than 45 years and gets her phone calls returned. Henry D. Lindsley. The Plan Commission is also composed of Schoellkopfs good friends, including, until recently, his wife. Edited by Alice Parsons Fitzgerald, the paper was known for its effusive reporting, liberally sprinkled with French phrases and occasionally beset by linguistic errors. Add rabbits for more guests. Enjoy unlimited access to all of our incredible journalism, in print and digital. Lucy Patterson with husband Albert and son Albert Harley. Each earned his right to lead. He is a member of NTCAR, ICSC, The Real Estate Council, The Oak Lawn Committee and a licensed Texas Real Estate Salesperson. Copyright 2023, D Magazine Partners, Inc. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. . I believe that change is a part of our present society. Hugh Prather. I said, Daddy, would you give me a couple of dollars to give these nice men who drove me home?. Weve got a Chinese [tycoon] getting ready to overpay. Rufus wife, Hattie Smith, was far from thrilled at the prospect of relocating from Dublin to Munger Place. Send a note, share a story or upload a photo. Learn more about managing a memorial . . Ward Gannon. 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. Jobs, housing, civil tranquility, all of that is rooted in a healthy economy. True. . Number six was the need for better and tougher representation in Austin and Washington, and how he had worked in both places. Carolines parents gave her a Chevrolet when she was 16 so that she could drive herself from Mount Vernon to Hockaday and free up the familys chauffeur. Lucy Pearl Phelps was born in Dallas, Texas, on June 21, 1931, to John C. and Florence Harllee Phelps. Sawnies wife, Mary Batts, was the first president of the Dallas County Heritage Society. Our politics, like our culture and our morality, are little more than a microscopic mirror of that experience. His candidates could feed from the establishements generous hand, while talking between bites about the need for new priorities and quality, not quantity. It was fun to mouth easy words like relevance and to warn white, middle-class audiences about the problems of the ghetto. I dont know if Chambers ever really believed that deeply in John, he continued. Some prefer to keep quiet. Chances are the show will hit Broadway the same way. Founded by Justin Schoellkopf and James Mason, Four Rivers primarily specializes in the developing, financing, and managing of real estate assets. Cheryl Hall, Business columnist. This story begins in a little hamlet in German Bavaria, from which the five Sanger brothers immigrated to the United States at two-year intervals in the 1850s. Prior to joining Four Rivers and during his time in business school, Keith held internships at Stonelake Capital in Dallas, as well as McCord Development in Houston, where he assisted the teams in evaluating potential investments across all product types. Alan Schoellkopf was married to Karen L. (Hyman) Schoellkopf on July 8, 2000 in Dallas County, Texas. Just months after her husbands death, the red-cedar bridge he had built collapsed. The Schoellkopfs money dates back to 1869, when Gottlieb Heinrich Schoellkopf was sent to Texas to carry buffalo hides back to Buffalo, New York. We cant keep up with her, Harrison said. He was kind of a messy housekeeper, though. 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 matriarch also takes pride in her descendants who have left the business nest, including her 39-year-old Tony-nominee grandson, Stark Sands, who is back starring in Kinky Boots on Broadway. In the summer of 1970, John Schoellkopfs precisely charted future quite suddently fell apart. Only at the last minute, a catch occurred when the council majority decided to delete one of the toothiest sections of the ordinance because it would, in their words, make them look as if they were against building and development. But thats hardly enough anymore. And before joining Mays & Company in 2005, James worked for United Commercial Realty (now CBRE) where he specialized in tenant representation working on such accounts as Kmart, YUM! The regions blueberry industry, which he pioneered, is now well established in both Texas and Louisiana. Mr. Schoellkopf began his civic activities in the early 1960s and went on to become president or chairman of the following organizations: the Boys Club of Dallas, Dallas Housing Authority, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Commission, Greenhill School, the Metropolitan American Red Cross, the Dallas Assembly, St. Augustines School and Mission in West Dallas and Tartan Classic Golf Tournament benefiting the Scottish Rite Hospital of Texas. Hell go through all the motions; he knows the forms, but what about the content? Family Data. Help tell the story of your loved ones unique life. The rich are very different from you and me, Scott Fitzgerald wrote. 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. Number one was the need for assigning priorities, which the group later learned was a way of saying Dallas cant solve all her problems at once. Number two was the stock rendition on downtown revitalization, which included one highly interesting twist already recommended by the council inner-city committee: a proposal to change state tax law to allow municipalities to give private developers tax abatements on property taxes in order to encourage development in depressed areas. He and his brothers dabbled in East Texas rural real estate. 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. Its impossible for some to drive through North Dallas and not think of the Caruths. Schoellkopf stared at the floor for a full 30 seconds. Then there was Schoellkopfs propensity for bringing home strange creatures, like coyotes and raccoons, and putting them in a pen behind the couples home. James developed over 180 projects in 15 different states. Additionally, Four Rivers geographic exposure ranges the entire country with the completion of multiple projects in many of the nations major markets. Schoell-kopfs face could still flush at the memory of the debacle. They quickly opened its first steam sawmill, began a brickyard and contracting business, put a toll bridge across the Trinity and began building a three-story brick hotel. The CCA seemed to have fallen into bad graces with the electorate. Leave a memory or share a photo or video below to show your support. J. Fred Schoellkopf married another Dallas fortune. The Cockrells. Ever since he and Stemmons began picking up talk of Wes Wises increasing absences from City Hall, his embarrassing financial problems, his disputes with the press, Schoellkopf had been searching high and low for a CCA challenger. Before In-N-Out and Taco Bell, James was a Development Partner with Mays & Company,specializing in single tenant build-to-suits for national retailers including Firestone, Tractor Supply Co. and Office Depot. He attended the old. Its one thing to ask a harried buck private if he likes his drill sergeant; quite another to ask him if hed prefer someone else to lead him into enemy territory.) (Bynum) Schoellkopf on July 15, 1987 in Dallas County, Texas and they separated on April 1, 1988, and died at age 78 years old on October 21, 1999. The Caruths werent guided by any urgent vision of future growth. Her life with Schoellkopf a Texas character in his own right whose name she dropped after their divorce in 1987 cropped up several times during Hunts talk. Will Caruth Sr. inherited more property in Dallas than any other man here had ever owned, but he never thought of harvesting it for development. . Leadership for what purpose? To wit: In describing a Dallas doyennes vacation at a golf resort, Fitzgerald described her as having been spotted gracefully swinging her caddy. He returned only to read blazing headlines about closed door meetings and top civic leaders huddle. It was a blatant return to the oligarchys ways of old, and it was bound to stir up the smoldering resentments those ways had caused. But I was afraid to take it up with us for fear of throwing the plane off balance, she said. The Burgher home stood at the present site of the Melrose Hotel. You got to have city government that changes. Stemmons was really the only one to worry about; and he seemed satisfied with the re-endorsement of Russell Smith, the addition of conservative Charles Storey from Oak Cliff, and the booting of Garry Weber. It wasnt a particularly exciting campaign speech, as campaign speeches go. 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. . Hunt talked about how Hagman never spoke on Sundays and wore a sign around his neck saying so. Prior to joining Four Rivers, Brian was a Project Manager at StreetLights Residential. He lived in an unpretentious apartment, drove a car like everyone elses, and he never picked up the lunch tab more than anyone else. When he walked into the room, he knew he wouldnt be able to turn down their offer. John Lingo Schoellkopf, a fourth generation Dallasite, died December 8, 2018 from heart complications. 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. For the born-rich, politics is too often another expensive pasttime to break the boredom of being rich. Life had not prepared him to be publisher of the Herald, but he was ready. He had been since that day in 1957 when he had gone to Uncle Jim and found a spot in the Herald newsroom. Hugo W. Schoellkopf, retired chairman of the board and president of The Schoellkopf Co., one of Dallas' oldest business institutions, died here Thursday. So what is Carolines favorite pumpkin dish? That is such a beautiful thing.. He left the life insurance legacy to Carolyns husband, Dan Williams, while he turned a tiny real-estate firm into the billion-dollar Southland Financial Corp. 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. The city elections were coming up in 1971, and Schoellkopf heard that CCA Councilman Doug Fain was making noises about not running for re-election. By the 1890s, Sanger Bros, was earning $3 million annually. Many of the magnificent furnishings were sold, with only remnants left to Sanger heirs-remembrances of an era of lost elegance. Wise would run unopposed by a serious candidate, and un-endorsed by the CCA. Id have to talk to the attorneys. Son-in-law of J.S. Schoellkopf, 80, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at his Dallas home. The Sangers. Some, like Ben Carpenter and his son John, are still in the game, playing for high stakes, going as strong as the first John Carpenter ever did. Working his way through several civic projects, Schoellkopf had found himself hobnobbing with top members of the oligarchy. Erik Jonsson had even asked him to head the bond program for the new City Hall. Mr. Schoellkopf was an avid fisherman and outdoorsman. So I jumped at the opportunity to hear her give a rare talk at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, where she spoke as part of September's opening for A Tasteful Place, an edible 3.5-acre ode to growing, harvesting and eating sustainable fresh, locally grown food. Colorwise, I like everything more subtle, as you can tell, she said, holding up a silk scarf of softly hued pumpkins. Theres one set of words, codes and inflections for the white folks in the Big House and another set for the field hands in the cabins. When the Civil War intervened Isaac and Lehman-plus a third brother Philip-joined the Confederate fight. George N., the athlete, became a prominent banker and served as a director of Texaco for 30 years. His luncheon companion rose to Schoellkopfs defense: Look, Ive known Johnny for years. The second generation of Marcuses had even more impact than the first. I leaned over to pick it up. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gail C. (Obenchain) Schoellkopf. What a way to launch a campaign against Wes Wise. Powerful member of the banking community and an early railway entrepreneur. He later pursued farming, investments and banking. Prior to joining LegacyTexas Title, Matt worked in the petroleum industry as a Business Development Manager and Analyst specializing in acquisitions and divestitures. Shes quietly spread her largesse to innumerable good causes dear to her heart, including Dallas CASA,The United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, the Junior League of Dallas and the Crystal Charity Ball. But I came out covered in mud because this was a tributary going into White Rock Lake., She had passed a Civilian Conservation Corps truck and hurried to the road to catch it. Genealogy for Hugo William Schoellkopf, Jr. (1921 - 1999) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. And now is the time to sell. Fine houses, lavishly designed and furnished, began to appear. But its one thing to describe the qualifications for a job, and another thing to meet them. The Dignity Memorial brand name is used to identify a network of licensed funeral, cremation and cemetery providers that include affiliates of Service Corporation International, 1929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas. It made sense. In the early Seventies the two brothers-in-law gave birth to a dream of their own planned community with the multifunctions and amenities of a full-blown urban center. My father was very health-conscious, she told about 200 in the library of the former Degolyer estate. Ryan attended the Naveen Jindal school of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. It seemed awkward that Peter Aguirre, who lives in North Dallas, was suddenly referred to as Pedro. It seemed peculiar that Garry Weber was booted, but George Allen was handed an unprecedented third term endorsement. He was 76. But Dallas premier commodity was, and probably still is, land. Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home & Hillcrest Mausoleum & Memorial Park, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. He was forced to sell the hotel during the Depression; it eventually burned. 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. At a nearby table weoverheard two older gentlemen discussing the same point.Schoellkopfs friend nodded in their direction and remarked, I suppose the argument is going on all overtown., 750 North St.Paul St. He understands political alliance in terms of personal bonds. Hed stacked the selection committee well enough to joke casually with reporters about the splits in the voting. Meanwhile, back at the bank, the gentlemen who had stirred the earlier uproar were quietly reaching another decision.