Curtis, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar (1850-1933), an American publisher, founded the Curtis Publishing Company in 1890. He started his first publication, Young America, as a 12-year-old newsboy. Later he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and, in 1872, founded a magazine called The People’s Ledger. Four years later, he took this publication to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There, Curtis started another magazine, The Tribune and Farmer, which became the Ladies’ Home Journal in 1883. Curtis bought The Saturday Evening Post in 1897 and The Country Gentleman in 1911.
Curtis also owned and published eight large daily newspapers. They included the Philadelphia Public Ledger, which he bought in 1913. Curtis purchased the Philadelphia Press in 1920, the New York Post in 1924, and the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1930. He organized Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc., a newspaper chain, in 1925. Curtis was born on June 18, 1850, in Portland, Maine. He engaged in many philanthropic activities. He died on June 7, 1933.
