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Adolph Ochs

Adolph Simon Ochs (March 12, 1858 - April 8, 1935) was an American Jewish reporter of Bavarian background, who purchased The New York Times in 1896, and rescued it from near oblivion, increasing its readership from 9,000 at the time of his purchase to 780,000 by the 1920s.

His daughter, Iphigene Bertha Ochs, married Arthur Hays Sulzberger , who became publisher of the Times after his father-in-law. Her son Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger also became publisher of the Times.

Reference

  • The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family behind The New York Times, Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones, Little, Brown and Company, 1999.

December 31, 2004, on New Year's Celebration in Times Square. It's been 100 years since revelers in New York first brought in the New Year in what was formerly known as Longacre Square. The tradition was started in 1904, by New York Times owner Adolph Ochs, who was building a new headquarters in the neighborhood.


The city had just renamed the oddly shaped "square" in the newspaper's honor and at midnight Ochs had pyrotechnists illuminate his new building at One Times Square with fireworks shot from street level.

External link

  • http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/ochs.html


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