Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis
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Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (June 18, 1850 - June 7, 1933), was a significant U.S. publisher.
Curtis was born in Portland, Maine, and entered the publishing business there with a weekly newspaper. He founded the Philadelphia-based Curtis Publishing Company, which published the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as several other magazines and newspapers. He was also known for his philanthropy to hospitals, museums, and schools.
He obtained a pipe organ manufactured by the Austin Organ Company which had been displayed at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926 and donated it to the University of Pennsylvania. It was built into Irvine Auditorium when the building was constructed and is known to this day as the Curtis Organ. It is one of the largest pipe organs in the world.[1]
Curtis died on June 7, 1933, and is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
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- Curtis Hall Arboretum, his former estate in Wyncote, Pennsylvania
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