Albert Clay Bilicke (June 22, 1861 – May 7, 1915) was a millionaire hotelier and builder in Los Angeles. Bilicke and his father ran the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Tombstone, Arizona. After it was destroyed by a fire in 1882 he moved to California. In Los Angeles he built the Hotel Alexandria (1906) and was president of the Alexandria Hotel Company. He partnered with Robert Rowan in a building company. He was presumed drowned after being lost at sea while a passenger on the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania which was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine SM U-20 off the coast of Ireland. His wife Gladys survived. [3][4][5]
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| Born | June 22, 1861 Coos County, Oregon, United States |
| Died | May 7, 1915 (aged 53) At sea (RMS Lusitania) |
| Spouse | Gladys Huff Bilicke (m. September 10, 1900) [1] |
| Children | Albert Constant Bilicke (b. 1902) Nancy Caroline Bilicke (b. 1903) Carl Archibald Bilicke (b. 1907) [2] |
His parents were German immigrants and his father was the proprietor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Tombstone, Arizona. Bilicke was born in Coos Bay, Oregon.[6]
Bilicke was acquainted with Wyatt Earp and testified at his trial after the shooting at the O.K. Corral.[7]
The Cosmopolitan was destroyed by a fire in 1882. A. C. Bilicke planned to rebuild it.[8]
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Bilicke bought the Hollenbeck Hotel in Los Angeles in 1893. He joined with Robert Rowan to form the Bilicke-Rowan Fireproof Building Company, a construction firm the built the Alexandria Hotel.[9] The Rowan Building in Los Angeles is named for Rowan.
References
edit- ^ "Mr. Albert Clay Bilicke". 9 August 2011.
- ^ "Maritime Museum".
- ^ "Many From This City Aboard Stricken Liner". Los Angeles Times. 1915-05-18.
- ^ "Bilicke, Albert Clay". June 10, 2017.
- ^ "People's stories – Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool museums". www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
- ^ Marks, Paula Mitchell (1996). And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806128887 – via Google Books.
- ^ Marks, Paula Mitchell (1996). And die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806128887.
- ^ "Fire Destruction of Tombstone, including Bilicke's Cosmopolitan Hotel, May 25, 1882". Weekly Republican. 2 June 1882. p. 4.
- ^ Stargel, Cory; Stargel, Sarah (2009). Early Downtown Los Angeles. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738570037 – via Google Books.
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