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The Texas Pacific Land Corporation is a publicly traded real estate operating company with its administrative office in Dallas, Texas. Owning over 880,000 acres (3,600 km 2 ) in 20 West Texas counties, TPL is among the largest private landowners in the state of Texas .
The terms of the contract involving titles and the retention of property by the company led to problems between settlers and the company for many years. The Hedgcoxe War was an armed rebellion against the land company's agent Henry Oliver Hedgcoxe on July 16, 1852, in which company records were seized and taken to the Dallas County Courthouse. [3]
John Millard Stemmons (July 10, 1909 - July 20, 2001) was a real estate developer and civic leader in Dallas, Texas.He is best known for his efforts to develop the former flood plain of the Trinity River and his lucrative donation of land for the Stemmons Freeway that was named for his father, Leslie Stemmons.
Sammons Enterprises, Inc. is a diverse holding company composed of financial services, industrial equipment, real estate investment, and infrastructure businesses operating in six countries. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas (US), Sammons was established by Charles Sammons [ 1 ] in 1938.
Brad Maurice Kelley (born 1956) is an American businessman who is the 9th largest landowner in the U.S., [1] with an estimated net worth of US$2.2 billion in 2018. [2] He founded the Commonwealth Brands tobacco company in 1991 and sold the company in 2001 to Houchens Industries for US$1 billion. [3]
From April 2012 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William R. Loomis Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 56.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a 2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
When Dallas became the county seat, Bryan donated the land for the courthouse. In 1843, he married Margaret Beeman, a daughter of the Beeman family who settled in Dallas from Bird's Fort. The couple had five children. [1] Another Beeman, John, arrived in Dallas in April 1842 and planted the first corn. [2]
Ryan LLC was founded by Chairman and CEO G. Brint Ryan [8] and Chris F. Collis as the CPA firm Collis & Ryan in 1991. [9] [10] Collis' stake in the company was bought out in 1993, and the company was renamed Ryan & Company, P.C. [10] In 1997, the company began expanding into other tax areas beyond state and local taxes.