Albert Bilicke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American real estate broker (1861-1915)
Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1861
Place of Birth: Coos County, Oregon, United States
Date of Death: 07-May-1915
Profession: real estate broker
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Albert Bilicke
- 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 sunk by a German torpedo off the coast of Ireland.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.Bilicke was acquainted with Wyatt Earp and testified at his trial after the shooting at the O.K.
- Corral.The Cosmopolitan was destroyed by a fire in 1882.
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- Bilicke planned to rebuild it. 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.
- The Rowan Building in Los Angeles is named for Rowan.
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