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John Telemachus Hilton (April 1801 – March 5, 1864) was an African-American abolitionist, author, and businessman, who established barber, furniture dealer, and employment agency businesses. [1] He was a Prince Hall Mason and established the Prince Hall National Grand Lodge of North America and served as its first National Grand Master for ...
Conrad Nicholson Hilton (December 25, 1887 – January 3, 1979) was an American hotel magnate and politician who founded the Hilton Hotels chain. From 1912 to 1916, Hilton was a Republican representative in the first New Mexico Legislature , but became disillusioned with the "inside deals" of politics.
Hilton Hotels & Resorts [3] (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton Worldwide. [4] The original company was founded by Conrad Hilton. As of December 30, 2019, 584 Hilton Hotels & Resorts properties with 216,379 rooms in 94 ...
The company was founded by Conrad Hilton in 1919 as Hilton Hotels Corporation in Cisco, Texas, and it had its headquarters in Beverly Hills, California, from 1969 until 2009. In August 2009, the company moved to Tysons Corner , unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia , near McLean .
Hilton Hotels & Resorts, flagship hotel brand operated under Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, an American non-profit charitable foundation, established in 1944 by hotel entrepreneur Conrad N. Hilton; Ladbrokes, a British-based gambling company, known as Hilton Group plc from May 1999 to February 2006
Hilton started buying more hotels. By 1924, he built a new hotel in Dallas, the fourteen-story Dallas Hilton, which he completed for more than $1.3 million (or $23.3 million in 2024 dollars).
He is the son of hotel magnate Barron Hilton, and grandson of Conrad Hilton who founded the Hilton Hotels chain. Steven Hilton is the chairman of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, a humanitarian charity working to improve the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people throughout the world. He served as president and CEO of the foundation prior ...
Hilton was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961. His father Samuel Hilton was a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw, Poland.Captured with Hilton's grandfather by German SS soldiers in 1943, his father spent two years in five different concentration camps in Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, before being liberated by Soviet soldiers at Theresienstadt outside of Prague.