On Aug. 4, 1925, Conrad Hilton celebrated the grand opening of the first hotel he built from the ground up and the first he put his name on --the Dallas Hilton.
Even though a governor once introduced him as a native son, Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born in San Antonio, New Mexico, not San Antonio, Texas, on Christmas Day 1887. But like so many naturalized Texans, he got here just as soon as he coul…
