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| Daniel Denton Cooley
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| (April 15, 1850 - Nov. 22, 1933) A
native of Binghampton, New York, D. D. Cooley moved to Omaha, Nebraska
as a young man. In 1887 he joined the American Loan and Trust Company.
The company bought a tract of land northwest of Houston in 1891 and
sent Cooley and other representatives to oversee its development the
following year. As general manager of the Omaha and South Texas Land
Company, formed by American Loan and Trust in 1892, Cooley had direct
input into the design of the Houston Heights community. Known later as
the “Father of the Houston Heights,” he laid out the main
street, Heights Boulevard, and built his home here in 1892-93. He
continued to promote real estate in the area after the company was
dissolved about 1895. The first school in the neighborhood was named
for Cooley, and he was a member of the school board. After Houston
Heights was incorporated in 1896, he was elected an alderman. Cooley
was a respected civic and business leader, whose interests included
banking, insurance, railroads, real estate, and oil. Married to Helen
Grace Winfield (1860-1916) in 1883, Cooley was the father of three
sons. He died in 1933 and is buried in Glenwood Cemetery. The Cooley
home was razed in 1965.
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Erected in 1991, this
marker stands in Marmion Park, 1802 Heights Blvd.
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