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ILLIAM S. DUNCAN, of the Lloyd Realty Co., 110 Dallas County State Building, has been identified with the business interests of Dallas for the past six years. The Lloyd Realty Co. was organized in August, 1921, and deal in city property and farm lands.
Mr. Duncan has traveled extensively but is a native Texan having been born in Ellis County in 1890. His parents were J. L. and Dora Carroll Dun- can, who were also native Texans. His father is a successful contractor in Dallas. Young Duncan at- tended the Ellis County schools, private school at Ferris and later the University of Texas. His education finished, Mr. Duncan entered the mercan- tile business in Ferris. Later he was in the motion picture business for himself for four years but he sold that out and came to Dallas where he was con- nected with the Union Oil Company. After his ex- perience in that business he went with Edwards Gas and Service Co. where he had complete charge of the tire accounts and then he was with the Safety Tire and Repair Co. up until he went with the Oak Cliff Buick Company, on February 1, 1919. August 1, 1921, Mr. Duncan became associated with Mr. R. J. Lloyd in the Lloyd Realty Co.
In 1913 he was married to Miss Adelaid Lloyd, of Ferris, daughter of H. B. Lloyd, a prominent farmer of that section. They have one child, William Lloyd, Jr. Their home is at 127 North Marsalis Avenue.
Mr. Duncan is a prominent worker in the Wood- men of the World and he takes an active interest in all the commercial activities in Dallas. He says Dallas is the best city in the Union and he is striving to make it as much bigger and better as he can.
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R. ALLEN C. GILLESPIE, of the firm Cochran, Gillespie & Hollifield, 181216 Main Street, dealers in real estate, has within less than a decade come to fill a prominent place in real estate circles in Dallas and has done much to serve the needs of home-seekers. In this business he is asociated with Mr. J. M. Cochran. one of the oldest and best known men of Dallas, with whom he is connected not only in the relation of a business partner but by the stronger ties of firm friendship. Mr. Cochran served throughout the Civil War as Colonel on General Cook's staff and is now General of the Third Division of the Texas Confed- erate Veterans.
The firm of Cochran & Gillespie was organized in 1910 and has experienced a constantly widening in- fluence. They are interested in both business and residence property in the city and do an extensive business in farm lands. They are also interested in oil developments.
Although a native of Tennessee, born at Summer- ville, Fayette County, May 7, 1863, Mr. Gillespie was brought to Texas by his parents, Andrew J. and Julia Wright Gillespie, when he was only two years old. The family located . on a farm in Colorado County near Columbus. The elder Mr. Gillespie was a lawyer by profession and was also a commission merchant. He returned to Tennessee in 1866 and died shortly afterwards. In 1872 the younger Gil- lespie came to Dallas and began his education in the public schools of the city and in the G. W. Groves private school. He next appears in the Alabama Medical College of Mobile, Alabama, from which he was graduated in 1888 with the M. D. degree. Following this he returned to Texas and began the practice of medicine. Two years later he was ap- pointed by the board of directors under Governor Hogg as surgeon of A. & M. College. In this posi- tion he remained for twelve years during which time his sympathetic understanding of student life and his active interest in school affairs enabled him to be much more than a college physician. In 1902 he returned to Dallas and for eight more years he continued the practice of medicine. He severed active connection with the profession in order to help in the organization of the firm of which he is still a member.
In 1893 Mr. Gillespie was married to Miss Hester F. Cole, the youngest daughter of John H. Cole, the well known pioneer of Dallas. Jack Cole, Cora Laura and William Field are the three children. The Gillespie residence is at 3337 Cole Avenue.
Mr. Gillespie's career presents us with an example of a man who, having attained prominence in one line of endeavor, turns to another entirely different only to repeat the record. Such examples are not often met with. Mr. Gillespie is a Mason and a member of the Auto and Country Clubs, the Cham- ber of Commerce.
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ENRY S. MILLER, owner of the Henry S. Miller Real Estate Firm, handling real es- tate, mortgages and loans, Dallas, has been engaged in the real estate business since February 15, 1914, but during this time has built up a splendid business and has handled a number of important deals involving in the changing of owner- ship of Dallas realty. He specializes in business and high-class residence property and his fair and conscientious dealing with his clients, both sellers . and purchasers, has contributed to the success of his
agency. The loan department of his business has handled inany thousands of dollars of loans for his clients and aided materially in providing and reliev- ing the acute housing shortage that prevailed dur- ing part of 1919 and 1020.
A native of Dallas, Mr. Miller was born February 24, 1890, a son of Sam Miller, retired business man and for thirty-five years one of the best known re- tail grocers in Dallas. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Dallas and in 1903 began his business career in the wholesale department of Sanger Bros. He remained with the Sanger interests until : 1914 when he became associated with the Davidson Davis Real Estate Company. He retained this connection until the first of January, 1919, when he engaged in the real estate business for himself at his present address in the Southland Life Insurance Building.
On June 9th, 1913, Mr. Miller was married in Dal- las to Miss Carmen Jablow, daughter of Issac Jab- low. They have two sons, Henry S. Jr., and Harry. The family reside at 3617 Wendelken street.
Mr. Miller is a thirty-second degree Manson, a member of the Hella Temple Shrine, the Kiwanis Club, Lakewood Country Club, Automobile Club. Dallas Athletic Club, Columbian Club, the Dallas Real Estate Board and Chamber of Commerce. His church affiliation is with Temple Emanu-El.
A progressive, public spirited citizen, Mr. Miller has always been interested in any movement for the advancement and betterment of Dallas, the city he regards as the leading commercial and industrial center of the southwest.
MELROSE SCALES, member of the firm of C. L. Smith and Company, real estate. insurance and investment banking, 208 Texas and Pacific Building, is one of the best posted insurance men in Dallas, having gained wide and valuable experience in this line since he became actively interested in this line in 1918. Mr. Seales was a member of the firm of Page, Scales and Harris, general agents for the Southland Iife Insur- ance Company, which agency in 1919 placed more than two million dollars of paid for business for the Southland Life. He is now actively in charge of the insurance department for C. L. Smith and Com- pany, handling various lines of insurance.
Mr. Scales is a native Texan and was born near Waco in 1876. He is a son of Dr. John R. Scales who came to Texas in the early fifties and settled in Henderson County. His mother was formerly Miss Texana Selma Kelly whose family came to Texas from Alabama in the early thirties.
Mr. Scales was educated in the schools of Hender- son County and removed to Dallas with his parents in 1889 and was employed by Sanger Brothers, be- ginning as a cash boy at the age of twelve years. He remained with this firm for 29 years and when he resigned to enter the insurance business was manager of the furnishing goods department.
In 1902 Mr. Scales was married to Miss Mattie Irene Anderson. daughter of Rev. S. J. Anderson, well known Baptist minister. They have three chi !- dren, Irene, Melrose and Marjorie. The family home is at 2511 Gladstone Drive.
Mr. Scales is a Mason, a member of the Oak Cliff Chapter, a member of the Dallas Ad League and of the North Texas Underwriters' Association. He is a member of the Oak Cliff Baptist Church and has served as the superintendent of its Sunday school for nearly twenty years.
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LIN A.' TEAL, secretary and treasurer of the Power Investment Company, has planned, built and completed more than 150 houses in two of Dallas' most popular mod- ern Bungalow Additions-Mt. Auburn and Park View, during the last year. These two beautiful additions enjoy the reputation of having more pret- tily kept yards than are to be found elsewhere in Dallas among the medium priced homes. While the Power Investment Company will handle all types of investment property, yet their business has princi- pally been that of building cottages in East Dallas. The firm maintains the best architects and work- men to be had, and their five and six room houses are the best obtainable at prices ranging from $3,000 to $4,000.00.
Mr. Teal was born in Villa Rica, Georgia, March 25th, 1874. He was educated in the Bowdon College of his native state, from which he graduated in 1894. Upon finishing at College, Mr. Teal took a business course at Georgia's capital city and there began his business career as a stenographer for an insurance company. He served for three years in this capacity. In 1897 he crossed the Mississippi in search of west- ern opportunities, and located in Texas, at Terrell, where he opened a five and ten cent store, under the firm name of Duke & Teal. The business so pros- pered that in a few years, Mr. Teal had fourteen such stores throughout Texas. In 1902 he located in Dallas and established another one of his stores. Six years later he sold his entire interest in this line of business to his partner, H. Z. Duke. Mr. Teal then engaged in the typewriter business for the next four years being with the L. C. Smith firm in Dallas from 1908 to 1912. This year he sold his typewriter business and took a position with Murphy & Bolanz as salesman. Here his work has been so construc- tive that he was made secretary and treasurer of the Power Investment Company and assistant secretary of Murphy & Bolanz Co., the capacity in which he serves a growing metropolis today.
In 1901, Mr. Teal married Miss Azelia C. Kidd of Waxahachie, Texas. Three children have been born to them, Gladys, Gordon and Edwin. The family's Church affiliation is with the First Baptist Church of Dallas, where Mr. Teal is a Deacon. They have residence at 5822 Gaston Avenue.
Mr. Teal's average of building three homes a week for the last 200 weeks, for the people of Mt. Auburn and Park View, is the best proof of his ability as an unusual home builder.
HOMAS P. SCOTT, member of the firm of Scott Bros., handling city, farm, business and residence property, has been identified with the growth of Dallas ever since it was a small village, having come here in January, 1858, and since that time he has witnessed its growth into the greatest commercial center in the state and predicts that the next ten years will be the most prosperous in' its history. The city is surrounded by the best agricultural belt in the world, he asserts, where practically anything can be grown success- fully; the lands are fertile, the water good and every- thing necessary to the comfort and welfare of man can be found here. He predicts that all the large farms will soon be cut up into small ones, and that the back to the farm movement will make the state the richest and most prosperous in the Union.
When Mr. Scott came to Dallas he was only six
years old, and until he was 18, he worked on his father's farm near Dallas. There were no public schools in those days and he attended a private school here. He is a Democrat and has always voted 'the straight Democratic ticket.
Before engaging in the real estate business in 1901, Mr. Scott served as tax collector of the city of Dallas for six years, 1893 to 1898, and prior to that he traveled in Texas for twenty years, first for local concerns and later for northern houses.
Mr. Scott was born near Lynchburg, Va., in 1851. His grandfather, Sam M. Scott, was a cousin to General Winfield Scott. and his father, Dr. Roy B. Scott, practiced medicine in Virginia, but after coming to Texas he devoted himself entirely to farm- ing near Dallas. Mr. Scott married Miss Harris, a native of MeKinney, Texas, in 1889, and they have two children, Jennie F. and Thomas Beverly.
A. McALEER, of J. A. McAleer and Com- pany, real estate, with offices in the Wilson Building, Dallas, has been engaged in the insurance, mortgage and real estate busi- ness in this city for the past thirty-one years. Com- ing to Dallas when it was a city of some twenty-five thousand people it has been his privilege to aid greatly in the development of Dallas into a metropo- lis of true greatness. The J. A. McAleer Company is now engaged in the general real estate business, including city, residence and farm properties. Dur- ing the past fifteen years the concern has specialized in the buying and selling of suburban acreage, along with the loaning of moneys for the development of outlying districts.
Born in Ireland in the County of Tyrone, in the year 1855, J. A. McAleer is a son of John McAleer, a merchant of that county. He received his primary education in the national schools of Ireland and later graduated from an Irish Normal school. For several years thereafter he taught school in Ireland and in 1885 came to America, arriving in Texas in 1887 and locating at Texarkana, where for the next two years he was engaged in the cotton seed oil business. In 1889 he moved to Dallas and became associated with the Dallas Land and Loan Company, being cashier and office manager for that concern. While with this concern Mr. McAleer became identified with the steam railroad line to Oak Cliff which was built over the protest of practically every real estate man of the city, President Marsalis finally induced his company to build that line and open up Oak Cliff for residence purposes. In 1891 this company was dis- organized and Mr. McAleer became identified with the Robert Ralston and Company, a mortgage con- cern which represented practically all of the Scottish and English companies. In 1904 he resigned his position and opened a real estate office of his own in the Wilson Building, which he has maintained ever since that time.
On June 10th, 1890, Mr. McAleer married Miss Mary J. Keough, of Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. McAleer are the parents of five children: Misses Grace, Agnes, Kathleen McAleer; Mrs. G. P. O'Rourke and Frank Joseph McAleer.
In fraternal orders Mr. McAlcer has membership in the Knights of Columbus, being a Master of the Fourth Degree, of North Texas. In civic affairs he has always taken an active interest and is a mem- ber of a number of local civic organizations.
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R B. ELLIFRITZ, Managing Director of the Adolphus Hotel, has devoted practically his entire life to the problem of furnishing en- tertainment to the traveling public and his years of fruitful experience have made him widely recognized as master of the art. His connection with one of the South's greatest hotels is a fitting sequel to a long period of unusually thorough prep- aration.
The Adolphus Hotel is one of the really "big" in- stitutions of Texan in every respect, there is noth- ing little about it. While it eclipses in size of buildings and number of guests almost every other hotel in the South it has made no effort to substi- tute floor space and numbers for courteous, effic- ient service. The main building, completed in 1913, is 235 by 90 feet and has twenty-two stories includ- ing the three sub-basements. The completed hotel was erected, even when material was comparatively cheap at an outlay of $3,722,000-a cost of $7700 per bed-room which exceeds the cost of any similar build- ing in the country. The first building was soon out- grown and in 1917 the Junior Adolphus was built, bringing the number of bedrooms to five hundred. This new building boasts the only inclosed roof gar- den in Texas. Seven large, fully equipped kitchens are required to serve the dining room and the two hundred stool lunch counter, the largest south of the Mason and Dixon Line. Approximately twenty-five business "Luncheon Clubs" are served every week.
He feels very strongly the need for a "family ho- tel" in Dallas which would make available for tran- sients more than 300 rooms and would thus relieve much of the congestion.
Mr. Ellifritz was born in Wheeling, West Vir- ginia, in 1874. His father, Benson J. Ellifritz, was a manufacturer of wagons and buggies. He com- pleted his education with the West Liberty State Normal School following which he taught school for a short time. His first experience in the hotel busi- ness was in Chicago. Prior to his coming to the Adolphus, in 1915, he was for fifteen years asso- ciated with Fred Harvey in the well known system of railway restaurants. During the latter part of this time he was divisional superintendent in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. His efficient management of the Adolphus has no doubt been largely due to these years of careful preparation.
In 1898 Mr. Ellifritz was married to Miss Belle Cleveland of Knoxville, Illinois.
The very nature of his work has brought Mr. Elli- fritz into contact with large numbers of the most prominent men and women of America and his con- genial temperament has enabled him to form among them many lasting friendships. He is a member of the Dallas and Lakewood Country Clubs and of the Lions Club. He has no doubts about the future of his home city and his optimistic outlook assures the Adolphus Hotel of continued growth and popularity. .
ONRAD N. HILTON, president and man- ager of the Waldorf Hotel, 1302 Commerce Street, has scored success as a state legis- lator, president of a western bank, and today, still in his early thirties, owns and operates four hotels in three cities. This life of romance which has bundled together into one personality, the handshake and cordiality of a legislator and the business judgment of a successful banker-all ex- plains that indefinable spirit of hospitality that so
favorably impresses the thousands of new-comers to Dallas who stop at the Waldorf. And first im- pressions are the most lasting. The Waldorf has 142 rooms, 49 of which are equipped with individual bath; cozy but roomy parlors on the second floor. and an attractive and inviting lobby on the first.
Mr. Hilton was born on Christmas Day of 1887. His parents were August H. Hilton and Mary Laufersweiler Hilton. After his education in the public schools and in the State School of Mines, of New Mexico, Conrad N. Hilton entered the mercan- tile business with his father, at San Antonio, N. M .; he soon became postmaster there, and at the age of twenty-three was made a member of the State Legislature of New Mexico; at twenty-seven, he was president of the New Mexico State Bank. In Octo- ber of 1917, Mr. Hilton sold his banking interests and entered the military service; he received train- ing at Presidio at San Francisco, received his second lieutenant commission the following August and was assigned to the 91st Division at Camp Lewis, Wash- ington. In March of 1918 he sailed for France where he was stationed behind the lines for six months with a service batallion. In February of 1919, he returned to America where he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and was discharged Feb. 12, 1919. One month prior to his return home his father passed away. In June, 1919, he bought the Mobley Hotel at Cisco which he still owns; he is. besides, president of the Melba Hotel, Ft. Worth, of the Melba Hotel Annex Co., is interested in the Terminal Hotel, Ft. Worth. Other members of his firm are J. C. Powers, of Ft. Worth, secretary, and G. E. Anderson, Ft. Worth, vice-president, and D. E. Soderman, Ft. Worth. The Waldorf Hotel, 1302 Commerce Street, Dallas, is incorporated at $80,000, the Terminal at $120,000.
Mr. Hilton is a "bachelor." He is a member of the Elks, the Knights of Columbus, and has Catholic church affiliation. He resides at Hotel Waldorf, which he directs.
Characteristized by that progressiveness and cordiality which has made him a success in so many services of the public, Conrad N. Hilton is an ex- cellent host that a fastly growing city has stationed at its center.
C. CAMPBELL. The corner of Elm and Harwood Streets, Dallas, has become well known because of the whole-hearted hos- pitality and the roomy attractiveness of the Campbell House, managed by R. C. Campbell. A spacious-but cozy-lobby on the first floor, a ladies' elegant parlor on the second, then day and night elevator service to 110 big, roomy, artistically planned and furnished rooms, cach with a 'phone, hot and cold water, sixty-four of which are equipped with individual bath suites, well that's just why the Campbell House keeps growing in good name and in size.
The Campbell House was built by A. W. Campbell. deceased since April, 1917, and opened to the public September 9, 1911. A. W. Campbell came to Dallasi in 1872. He was Past Grand Master of the Tanne- hill Lodge of Masons and Past Grand Master at the Texas Lodge of Masons.
R. C. Campbell, present manager of the house, was born in Dallas, August 5, 1889. Both of his parents were native Canadians of Scottish blood. He was educated in the Edward Malcolmson Private School, Coles Military School and then continued his
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schooling in the Pennsylvania Military College of Chester, Pa. Here he received the degree of civil engineer-C. E .- in 1909. Then as a post graduate ne pursued the study of mining engineering in the School of Mining at Golden, Colo. Those were days of romance as well as days of training for in 1910 the student married Miss Grace Louise Town- send, daughter of R. E. L. Townsend, whose inter- ests were in Colorado mines. There was one year of schooling after marriage, some work in the mines, and then R. C. returned to Dallas to manage the Campbell House. William Lee and Dorothy Grace are the two children.
Mr. Campbell is a Mason, a Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and a member of the Y. M. C. A. His big-hearted hospitality combined with the attractive and roomy quarters afforded by the Campbell House, make him an admirable host to place at the heart of a growing metropolis.
TTO HEROLD, vice-president and manager of the Oriental Hotel, Commerce and Akard Streets, during the active management of one of the leading hotels of Dallas for nearly twenty years, has established for himself an enviable record as a hotel man and by careful, pains- taking management has secured for the Oriental Hotel one of the first places of prominence among the hotels of the South.
The Oriental Hotel was opened October 9. 1889. Its completion marked an epoch in the building of Dallas, and for nearly a generation it was the finest hotel in the Southwest. Since that time it has served thousands of guests, including some of the most prominent men and women of America. The Oriental Hotel has two hundred rooms and in addi- tion to the spacious main dining room there are a number of private dining rooms. A part of the main floor in the rear of the lobby is occupied by the University Club.
In addition to his hotel interests, Mr. Herold is president of the Oriental Laundry, which he estab- lished in 1906. The Oriental Laundry, 1720-28 Wood Street, is the largest laundry in the Southwest, occu- pying three floors of a brick building including 50,000 square feet of floor space. A three-story ad- dition with a sixty foot front was recently com- pleted and occupied. Business is restricted to Dallas. and the work is unique in that it is the only laundry using Ivory soap exclusively which together with the modern machinery enables them to handle with satisfaction such fine materials as silks and lace curtains. More than two hundred and fifty people are employed in the various departments.
Mr. Herold was born in St. Louis, October 9, 1875. His father, Ferd Herold, was a widely known steam- boat man on the Mississippi River. His mother was formerly Miss Sophie Seybold. Having finished the course at Smith's Academy, St. Louis, Mr. Herold went with the A. Moll Grocery Company and a year and a half later he took a position with Dave Nichol- son who was also in the grocery business. In this position he remained for five years. In 1899 he ac- cepted a place as bookkeeper with the Lincoln Trust Company Bank and when he left five years later he was paying teller. In 1904 he came to Dallas to become manager of the Oriental in which place he has since remained.
Mr. Herold was married to Miss Carolyn Bodemer, daughter of Chas. Bodemer, prominent real estate dealer of Cincinnati, October 7, 1903. Their only
child, Alvin, attended the Terrell School until his senior year and was graduated from Culver Military School in 1920, Lawrenceville Academy, New Jersey, 1921, and now a member of the class of '25 at Yale. The family has apartments at the hotel.
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