Curtis, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar
- Curtis, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar
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▪ American publisher
born , June 18, 1850, Portland, Maine, U.S.
died June 7, 1933, Wyncote, Pa.
publisher who established a journalistic empire in Philadelphia.
As early as 1863 Curtis began publishing in Portland a local weekly called
Young America. When fire destroyed his plant, he moved to Boston, where he worked as a messenger, an advertising solicitor, and as publisher of
The People's Ledger, a magazine. He moved to Philadelphia in 1876 and continued there the publication of the magazine. In 1879 he founded
The Tribune and Farmer, from the women's section of which he formed a new magazine, the
Ladies' Home Journal. In 1890 Curtis organized the Curtis Publishing Company. Later acquisitions included
The Saturday Evening Post (1897);
The Country Gentleman (1911); the Philadelphia
Public Ledger (1913), which he expanded to include the
Evening Ledger (1914); the Philadelphia
Press and
The North American, morning newspapers that he merged with the Curtis papers (1925);
The Evening Post (1924); and
The Philadelphia Inquirer (1930).
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