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Cyrus Curtis remains #20 on the list of the richest Americans ever. [13] He was known for his philanthropy to hospitals, museums, universities, and schools. He donated $2 million to the Franklin Institute, for example; $1.25 million to the Drexel Institute of Technology for the construction of Curtis Hall; and $1 million to the University of Pennsylvania. [2]
Lyndonia, built 1920, was the second steam-yacht bearing the name [Note 1] and the third yacht built for publisher Cyrus H.K. Curtis of the Curtis Publishing Company by the then Consolidated Shipbuilding Company of Morris Heights, New York. The name is taken from the historic name of his estate, Lyndon, in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. [4]
The Curtis Organ, named for publisher Cyrus H.K. Curtis, is one of the largest pipe organs in the world with 162 ranks and 10,731 pipes. The concert organ, of American Symphonic design, was manufactured by the Austin Organ Company as its Opus 1416 in 1926 for the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition. It was known as the "Organists' Organ ...
The Curtis Publishing Company was founded in 1891 by publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who published the People's Ledger, a news magazine he launched in Boston in 1872, and then moved to Philadelphia, which was a major publishing center in the nation, four years later, in 1876
Women at Home was written by Louisa Knapp Curtis, wife of the paper's publisher, Cyrus H. K. Curtis. [6] [when?] After a year, it became an independent publication, with Knapp as editor for the first six years. Its original name was The Ladies' Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper, but Knapp dropped the last three words in 1886. [citation needed]
In 1920, it was purchased by Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who merged the Press into the Public Ledger. [1] In 1882, a Philadelphia Press newspaper story sparked a sensational trial after a journalist caught body snatchers from the Jefferson Medical College stealing corpses from Lebanon Cemetery for use as cadavers by medical students. [2]
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Pages in category "Curtis family" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Louisa Knapp Curtis; Mary Louise Curtis; Cyrus H. K. Curtis; Z ...