The company A. H. Belo Corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, was named in his honor.

[citation needed] At the end of the Civil War, Belo moved to the Houston area in search of job opportunities.

He met newspaperman Willard Richardson, who had replaced Samuel Bangs as publisher of the fledgling (circulation 200) Daily News of Galveston.

The Dallas Morning News under Belo continued Richardson's embrace of the innovation of the day—telephony and railroads.

It further established a train schedule to Fort Worth, Denison, and Waco to allow it to expand to a year-end circulation of 5,678 daily and 6,435 Sunday papers.

[2] In 1885, Belo sent George Bannerman Dealey to Dallas to help establish a sister newspaper in that city.

They built the Alfred Horatio Belo House in Dallas, Texas, one year before he died.

Belo had never fully recovered from his battle wounds and sought comfort and relief many months out of the year outside of Texas.