I was an excellent swimmer. Knight descendants abound and are interwoven through marriage with Hughes, Cochran and Field families. Buddy Schoellkopf, whose wife, Caroline (a Hunt), bought the Mansion and brought the 21 Club to Dallas, is Hugos son. When the horse lost out to the automobile in the early 1900s, the firm diversified. The Sangers. Following Mays defeat in 1971, Schoellkopf began to pick up the pieces. Slaughter. Alex Sanger responded by offering him an additional $1.50a week. We went in, and my father was sitting at the table. . A memorial will be at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas, where he was a. But campaigning is new to John Schoellkopf. Stemmons agreed, and went halvsies with Schoellkopf on an in-depth public opinion survey on the CCA. 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. If the court ordered a 10-1 system, he asked, would you fight it? Hunts a waste-not gal and wanted to use the cast-off innards from her kids jack-o-lanterns, so she started developing her own recipes. Martha Schoellkopf Jr, Mardie Schoellkopf, Alan C Schoellkopf. The Southwest Airlines-Love Field flap was another classic. Schoellkopf Company, which was for a long time the only saddlery in the state. In response to a letter that included the sons report card and a batch of newspaper clippings detailing his sports triumphs, Judge Aldredge wrote back: Feet seem fine. Worse, the bond program was put off. The plot unfolds as three young southerners-a brother, sister and brother-in-law, are contemplating investing the sum of their savings in a new company called Coca-Cola. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gail C. (Obenchain) Schoellkopf. And there would be the snide little rich kid jokes. 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. 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. He spent most of his boyhood there helping his father with the cattle, riding horseback and staging rodeos with his friends. He believed hed done the right thing, and he was reasonably certain the voting public agreed. He attended the old. Fine houses, lavishly designed and furnished, began to appear. The tide had changed, and the swimming was getting to be tough work. People would see him going to the Petroleum Club with his lunch in a sack. I experimented with cinnamon fudge two of my favorite flavors to this day. The consummate Dallas showmanship of Stanley Marcus has given way to the national managerial scope of his son, Richard. 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John Schoellkopf as mayor would be more interesting to watch than John Schoellkopf as candidate. One day when the cook was off, Caroline snuck into the kitchen. WHEN YOURE TALKING about old Dallas money, the first logical question is, how old is old? The former mayor was dead set against Schoellkopf because of the youve-never-worked-a-day-in-your-life stigma. It was she who began the fight to save some of Dallas finest mansions, including Millermore, which is now in Old City Park. Lynde A Schoellkopf of Texas was born c. 1973. The wounds from the First National-Republic feud over Charles Cullum were still very tender. Her daughter, Laurie Sands Harrison, 61, who was guiding her mother through her memories at the event, said: We think we have the coziest family. Of the fourth-generation Schoellkopfs, the best-known is Wilsons son John who ran for mayor in 1975 and was defeated by Wes Wise. 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 Patterson with husband Albert and son Albert Harley. No sense risking another humiliating defeat at the hands of Wes Wise, especially when Wise was proving to be harmless. Zip code 75209 (Dallas) average rent price for two bedrooms is $1,650 per month. Even the people Schoellkopf had placed on his new, broad-based executive committee grimaced at the suggestion. As Vice President of Asset Management & Operations, Matt oversees the closing, due diligence, and asset management processes at Four Rivers. He even wanted to run provided, of course, the old guys were solidly behind him and put their money where their mouths were. Licenses werent required in 1939. For the born-rich, politics is too often another expensive pasttime to break the boredom of being rich. Thomas Field. So we go there and the rodeo starts and theyre doing the roping, Harrison tells our table at lunch as her mother sits next to her. It seemed a safe bet. He wanted his fresh vegetables, and he wanted his healthy food. Whatever he missed by skipping through the school of hard knocks, he makes up for with slick imitation. Her Crescent complex was setting Uptown in motion. He is a member of ICSC, the Oak Lawn Committee and a licensed Texas Real Broker. If he couldnt have it his way, the way hed planned all these years, he didnt want it at all. Still, he was ready to run. Life did not teach him to be the savvy kingmaker of the CCA, but a good mind and an eye for adaptability were enough to get him by. While attending the University of Texas at Dallas, Ryan was a member of the UT Dallas Real Estate Club and a student athlete as a member of the UT Dallas Baseball team. It wears us out.. Chambers had been a longtime friend of the Schoellkopf family, a distant cousin, and sometime golfing partner to his father. He was 80 years old. Copyright 2023, D Magazine Partners, Inc. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Besides that, you children can buy it back for 30 cents on the dollar in about 15 years.. 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. John Schoellkopf is not certain, because the CCA is no longer certain what it will take to navigate Dallas through her most difficult and trying era. Unis started the meeting. Is the new CCA, as a city council, only an omen of John Schoellkopf as a mayor? Meanwhile, Schoellkopf had shown himself to be bright and competent enough to make his meteoric rise to Heir Apparent a little easier for older colleagues to stomach. Its impossible for some to drive through North Dallas and not think of the Caruths. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Before that, Sawnie was the second-youngest man to be elected mayor of Dallas, and it was his administration that hired the first city planner and drove the Ku Klux Klan out of town. He married Rena Munger, daughter of the wealthy cotton-gin genius and developer of ritzy Munger Place in East Dallas. Six years ago, John Schoellkopf had his life quite neatly in order: He was sitting on his hands waiting to become publisher of The Dallas Times Herald. The Schoellkopf Family Cookbook According to his family tree, he married Lynde A. Nelson Rockefeller, for all his management smarts and strengths, has never grasped the essential political fact of life that you cannot govern by purchase. I swam for six years at Camp Waldemar [in Hunt]. While Schoellkopf never distinguished himself as much more than a hard-working, aggressive, modestly talented reporter, he began surely and swiftly to climb the Herald ladder. But Schoellkopf was prepared for this. Soon enough, Fain decided to go ahead and run. Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, United States. While she might be horrified to see Schoellkopf chew someone out one moment, "the next thing I knew he was embracing the person and they were embracing him," his wife said. Those descendants that remain in Dallas-and there are few that bear the name-were honored in 1976 by the placement of a historical marker at the site of the Cockrell homestead downtown. 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. John was the only young man who fit the bill. 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. Weve got a Chinese [tycoon] getting ready to overpay. Hugo Schoellkopf was married to Wilda O. But John will give the appearance of firm leadership, and others will be hesitant to step in because theyll think John is doing the job. 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. Mr. Schoellkopf was an avid fisherman and outdoorsman. It wasnt long before the handwriting was officially lettered on the wall. His other liabilities are the inevitable result of the one overwhelming fact of his life: He was born rich. Prior to business school at Southern Methodist University, Keith was a Process Engineer and Project Manager for construction manufacturer Master Halco where he oversaw production operations of their largest manufacturing plant in the country. There are literally scores of Higginboth-ams around Dallas, and theyre a close-knit clan. When the Hunts opened The Mansion on Turtle Creek in 1979, they hired the man who ran the famous 21 Club in Manhattan to manage the property because they didnt know anything about the hospitality business. The Plan Commission is also composed of Schoellkopfs good friends, including, until recently, his wife. The Schoellkopfs. Though Rufus was a generous philanthropist, he also loved extravagance. As an Analyst at Four Rivers, Ryan is responsible for supporting management in the processes of underwriting and financial analysis, market research, and asset management. But a mayor who stands up and says this is right and this is wrong is never going to please everybody, even his friends. Number five was the need for a full-time, salaried mayor, a statement he concluded by explaining, I dont need the money myself, but . Unlike other cities that grew because of a natural harbor or a gold mine or superior land resources, Dallas had little going for it besides the hype of its founders. Obituary for Wilson Schoellkopf from the Dallas Morning News on August 13, 1986. She flagged down the truck, and the drivers took her home. Louise Mosely Smith, a great-granddaughter, heads the theater division of the Arts Magnet School. People . Comfort the family with flowers or a sympathy gift. Alex was the outgoing brother, whose geniality and compassion are remembered with tremendous fondness by his granddaughter, author Frances Mossiker, who recalls growing up in the stately brick house downtown, equipped with three separate dining rooms, hothouses, chandeliers from Louis Comfort Tiffany, and her favorite room: a voluminous library in which an ivory board was hung to record the comings and goings of the books. Sarah Horton Cockrell and Alexander Cockrell came to Dallas for an important reason: They owned it. It is not the place for dilettantish dabbling; it has to be a matter of life and death. Instead, they decide to open a store in Dallas. We cant keep up with her, Harrison said. Carolyn Carpenter Williams recalls that her brother Ben was always happiest at the ranch. This pre-establishment of Dallas was interested in the arts-but not terribly. 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. And, finally, the old bulls were just plain tired. But the company, owned by her trust established in 1935 by her father and mother, Lyda, and run by others, still has vast holdings in ranching, real estate, investment funds, oil and gas, and buys and sells turnaround companies. A couple of weeks later, Schoellkopf was invited to a meeting in Unis office. 1943 July 14, 1943. (Some of this land is still the subject of intense zoning fights at City Hall.) Insulted, Herbert left the firm. She outlived two husbands, Loyd Sands and Buddy Schoellkopf, and her longtime companion, Charles Simmons, who died nearly eight years ago. So, Schoellkopf returned to the task of electing the CCA council slate. He attended the University Park Elementary School, Texas Country Day (later St. Marks) and graduated from the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. The CCA had to defeat Wise in the next election; it was, in their minds, a matter of vital importance to the city. It worked. When he died in 1959, the mammoth Southland Center had just been completed. J. Fred and Bess, who incidentally and ironically were born in the same East Dallas house, had two sons-Wilson and J. Fred Jr.-both now retired. Four Rivers is a privately held boutique private equity and commercial development firm established in Dallas, TX. There was a lot of in-fighting. He plays a strategic role in the FRC Genesis Fund and overall management of the company. Wholesale grocer, known for his lavish musicales. Schneider founded the fire department and brought gas to Dallas; Mrs. Schneider was a grand dame who founded the Dallas Symphony Club. Then there was Schoellkopfs propensity for bringing home strange creatures, like coyotes and raccoons, and putting them in a pen behind the couples home. Schoellkopf was born and raised in Dallas, where he attended Texas Country Day School. Youngest president of the Texas Bar; son Tom was an associate justice of the Supreme Court; grandson Ramsey was U.S. attorney general in 1967. He hardly reacted. Then one of the gathered friends turned to the dictionary and read the definition: having qualities that attract affection. After vigorously arguing against the sell-out, John Schoellkopf waited only a few months after the deal was consummated, and then left the paper. Obadiah Knight. Frances Mossiker, novelist and granddaughter of Alex Sang-er, recalls summers in Europe or in California or in the family cabin in Maine. "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. Christian Weichsel. His mother had been for years a leading matriarch of Dallas society. Is Dallas becoming unaffordable due to rising housing costs, inflation and stagnating pay? House liberals in politics often act like the house blacks of plantation days: They have a tendency to doubletalk. Gen. Richard M. Cano. L. Craddock. Stemmons could probably take care of Erik, but the silver spoon stigma would be hard to shake. . Number six was the need for better and tougher representation in Austin and Washington, and how he had worked in both places. Turns out the banquet elephant stew is a ruse. Schoellkopf was born, as Dallas author A. C. Greene puts it, into "a town full of uncles." His great-grandfather had been one of the original Dallas merchants, a leather goods dealer. 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. American Airlines, flight attendants file for mediation during contract negotiations, New Uptown office tower lands second major lease, Years after North Texas bid for Amazons second headquarters, retail giant halts plan, Mesquite to become the site of new 2,500-home community, North Texas builders see influx of activity in new year, but challenges persist, Mark Wahlberg pours tequila for fans at Dallas restaurant during thunderstorm, Luka Doncic-Kyrie Irving tandem clicks with joint 40-point displays in Mavs win vs. 76ers, 12 Dallas-Fort Worth restaurants that have closed in 2023, The Cowboys are closer than you think to a total makeover at running back, Dallas Cowboys focused on adding another dynamic offensive weapon, DeSotos chase for third straight title continues after rout of Pearland in 6A semifinals. His son, J. Fred Schoellkopf became VP around the same time that they published their first saddlery catalog in 1887 and it is considered one of the earliest known Texas saddle, tack and hardware catalogs. At the turn of the century, John W. Carpenter was in Corsicana working his way up the ranks of the local gas and electric company. I wished Id known about that. And, sure enough, John Schoellkopfs city council has run the city just as, two years ago, he had run its campaign. The first fancy residential suburb was in South Dallas, a few blocks from downtown and the present site of the new city hall. One time, I forgot to pull the plug on it, and it created a small fire. Tennessee lawyer, developer of North Dallas residential plots and original supporter of the massive and successful Trinity River Reclamation Project. This East Texas retreat became a special gathering place for three generations of families. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Schoellkopf surname lived. Stemmons wasnt so sure about this Lucy Patterson woman, a black social worker, and he didnt want the group to endorse George Allen for a third term. Just months after her husbands death, the red-cedar bridge he had built collapsed. From the day the campaign got underway, there were suspicions that the new CCA encompassed everything and stood for nothing. The CCA is about people, blared the newspaper ads, and by saying nothing the slogan hinted at everything the new CCA council would become. They seemed to know just what to do with their new town. She hasn't given personal interview in nearly a decade. 750 North St.Paul St. With a lifelong commitment to the betterment of Dallas, Mr. Schoellkopf also held directorships at the following organizations: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Public Television Foundation for North Texas, Friends of the Dallas Public Library, Dallas Theater Center, Texas State Historical Association, Dallas County Campfire Girls, Cotton Bowl Council of the State Fair of Texas, Junior Achievement of Dallas, Community Council of Greater Dallas, United Way, Dallas Association for Planned Parenthood of North Texas, Goals for Dallas Task Force, The West Dallas Community Centers and The Human Services Magnet for the Dallas Independent School District. 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. What was needed was a toll bridge, she said, but many of Dallas leading businessmen disagreed. Some farmed the fertile soil or herded cattle on the vast ranch-lands nearby. It made sense. Keith is an active member of ICSC, The Real Estate Council, and the Knights of Columbus. He resided at 4300 Versailles. Comparing todays dollars with turn-of-the-century dollars is like gauging wooden nickels against gold coins. leadership. Leadership to what end? Nothing in it, one observer remarked, that makes you want to bring on Kate Smith and sing God Bless America. A little later, asked to be more specific about what he believes in, he answers, Thats a tough question. Birth of Hugo William Schoellkopf, III. Yes, the pachyderm recipe for 3,882 people is dropped in among her 440 recipes, but it was written for amusement: Take two months to cut it into bite-size pieces. Not only did he straighten out the fulfillment problems, he restructured the entire department. Schoell-kopfs face could still flush at the memory of the debacle. Recently, when an environmental committee proposed by Garry Weber, who is nobodys house liberal, was approved, it was accompanied by a lot of the same high-minded talk that had characterized the new CCA campaign. Dallas five-star lady did not disappoint. While others have come and gone, the Higgin-bothams and Schoellkopfs have endured. Jonsson was pushing hard for one; in fact, hed even indicated he might go outside the group to find Mr. 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. Thats probably because the Aldredges were central to shaping Dallas. A rift in the family business years back sent Buddy off in his own direction, marketing sporting equipment and leather goods and running a charter helicopter service called Pumpkin Air. Genealogy for Hugo William Schoellkopf, Jr. (1921 - 1999) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. After the war, the brothers continued to open a string of stores, tracking the Houston and Central Railroads expansion north. Its a wonder I didnt burn the whole house down.. Right. Business is cyclical. The regions blueberry industry, which he pioneered, is now well established in both Texas and Louisiana. Lucy Pearl Phelps was born in Dallas, Texas, on June 21, 1931, to John C. and Florence Harllee Phelps. The rest has been clean-up work on projects initiated under Erik Jonsson. One thing was still sticking in Schoellkopfs craw: The CCA had no mayoral candidate. They were middle-class men who earned their fortunes, their reputations, their social statures. 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. 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. It was, as everyone knew, only a matter of time. It was George and Rena who purchased the house on Swiss Avenue known as Al-dredge House. 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. Cheryl, a journalism graduate of SMU, has covered business for more than 45 years and gets her phone calls returned. But I think my accomplishments stand on their own. Four Rivers, and its principals, have participated in the financing and development . In 1872, they arrived in Dallas, built a two-story brick building on Courthouse Square and began to concentrate their efforts here. We know he was born with no-blisse oblige in his blood; we know this one social more of the rich has been good for this city. Justin has many long-term relationships with retailers that include Nike, Inc., Subway, CVS Health, Safeways Tom Thumb, Tesla Motors, Verizon Wireless, Toys R Us, Carters, Taco Bueno, and Cost Plus World Market. As he says, A mayor has to dance among the special interests. To understand what he means, you only have to recall the recent controversy that erupted over a bank-office development that was approved by the City Plan Commission for the Turtle Creek corridor. We have these stakeholder meetings, and theres like 64 of us. All five ended up in retailing. It wasnt simply the question of Southwest Airlines legal rights, but the larger-and for the voters in North Dallas, more important-question of public convenience for commuter flying. But she didnt get a car for another five years. I knew we had to have permits from the government of Highland Park to bring these animals home, Hunt recalled. It is mid September, 1974, and John Schoellkopf has left an important establishment political session at First National Bank. At the beginning of the meeting, Schoellkopf had outlined his platform, delivered with the easy confidence that comes to a politician when he has something specific to say. The brothers were canny businessmen, and before long they felt it was time to take on Dallas. The candidate was clearly between a rock and a hard place: The establishment was, is, and always will be against single member districts. The next year was to be his first intimate experience with the peculiar milieu of the young and born-rich. 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. So whats with Carolines infatuation with pumpkins? And there are others. . The headline-stirring meeting with the Big Boys at Republic during the summer to strong arm Aston into running had been a bust. She goes, Laurie, I told you, dont get emotionally tied to any one line of business, Harrison recalled. Skip Ancestry . The Metropolitan Opera played Wagners Parsifal in 1905-then packed its bags and didnt return for 30 years. CANDLE HAS BEEN LIT CANDLES HAVE BEEN LIT, We are reviewing your submission. 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. After a few months, there was little doubt in anyones mind that John could go places at the Herald. In Dallas, he was a member of the Brook Hollow Golf Club. 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.) The mayor of Dallas has to be a man who makes things happen. E.O. Sarah ordered her bridge through a mail-order catalog, and her victory was complete. And I have no interest in cars whatsoever.. Cotton-gin genius and developer of Munger Place, a residential enclave governed by deed restrictions and served by the citys most modern conveniences. Schoellkopf stared at the floor for a full 30 seconds. Jobs, housing, civil tranquility, all of that is rooted in a healthy economy. True. So the huge legacy fell into the hands of the third generation Will Caruth Jr. Acting almost as an instrument of destiny, he released the family holdings and let Dallas sprawl through. (Jones) Schoellkopf. 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.