Albert Bilicke
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Born | Coos County, Oregon, United States | June 22, 1861
Died | May 7, 1915 At sea (RMS Lusitania) | (aged 53)
Albert Clay Bilicke (1861 - 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 sunk by a German torpedo off the coast of Ireland.[1][2][3]
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.[4]
Bilicke was acquainted with Wyatt Earp and testified at his trial after the shooting at the O.K. Corral.[5]
The Cosmopolitan was destroyed by a fire in in 1882. A. C. Bilicke planned to rebuild it.[6]
Bilicke bought the Hollenbeck Hotel in 1893. He joined with Robert Rowan to form the Bilicke-Rowan Fireproof Building Company, a construction firm the built the Alexandria Hotel.[7] The Rowan Building in Los Angeles is named for Rowan.
References
- ^ "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 (January 31, 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. ISBN 9780806128887.
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12433942/fire_destruction_of_tombstone/
- ^ Stargel, Cory; Stargel, Sarah (January 31, 2009). Early Downtown Los Angeles. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738570037 – via Google Books.
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