Peter Pauls Stewart
Regina Streett
Peter Pauls Stewart was a successful business leader and philanthropist who sought to preserve and strengthen his community and country. His accomplishments throughout the DFW area are lengthy, ranging from leading successful businesses, including The Stewart Company (a wholesale distributor of tractors and appliances) and Auto Convoy (auto transportation), to real estate investment and development. He also served as a trustee for the Dallas Arboretum and the Hockaday School, and spearheaded the establishment of the Thanks-Giving Square and the Thanks-Giving Foundation in 1964 (The Dallas Morning News, 2018).
Joe O. Neuhoff
Michelle Dwyer Cohen
Joseph Oscar Neuhoff came from a family with both a strong work ethic and a deep Catholic faith. The Neuhoff family legacy can be seen in both Dallas, Texas, and Nashville, Tennessee, in their philanthropy towards Catholic institutions, and numerous civic projects, including their donations to The University of Dallas, St. Paul Hospital and Thanksgiving Square.
Julius Schepps
Kathleen Murray
Julius Schepps was the third child born to Joseph Schepps and Jennie Nathanson. Joseph and Jennie emigrated from Russia in 1891. They were a part of the massive surge in Russian Jewish emigration that occurred between 1880 and 1924.
John M. Stemmons
Barbara Ware
Stemmons is a familiar name to Dallas residents and to those passing through, due to the portion of IH 35 named for the family that contributed to the growth of Dallas and the development of the Trinity River area. The patriarch of the Stemmons family, John Martin Stemmons, was born in Kentucky, in 1830. An attorney, farmer, and Civil War veteran he brought his wife, Rebecca Serena Allison, and three children to Dallas in 1869 where he and Rebecca had seven additional children including his son Leslie Allison Stemmons.
John Erik Jonsson
Tony Hanson
John Erik Jonsson (Erik) was born in Brooklyn, New York on the 6th of September 1901. He was the only child of Johan Peter Jonsson and Ellen Charlotta Palmqvist, Swedish emigrants who met in the United States and were married in Brooklyn on the 20 February 1893.
The family moved to Montclair, New Jersey in 1912. Erik graduated from the Montclair High School in 1917 and from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1922 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
He began working for the Alcoa Aluminum Index company in 1922 as a rolling mill apprentice and was soon promoted to the position of Manufacturing Superintendent. He left Alcoa in 1927 to establish a Pontiac dealership but returned as a Sales Engineer in 1927.
