John Charles Martin

John Charles Martin was a newspaper publisher who, beginning in 1913, ran the newspapers purchased by his step father-in-law Cyrus Curtis, including the Public Ledger, the New York Evening Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer and four others.^[1]^[2] In 1931, an insurance industry magazine published a listing of Americans carrying the greatest amount of life insurance; Martin was second on the list with $6,540,000 in insurance, after Pierre Samuel du Pont with $7 million. ^[3] Martin's former estate in Wyncote, Pennsylvania now houses the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

References

↑ Anonymous. After Curtis. Time, Monday, Jul. 17, 1933.
↑ Anonymous (17 March 1930). "Again, Curtis-Martin". Time. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
↑ Anonymous. Names make news. Time, Monday, Sep. 21, 1931.

Cyrus H. K. Curtis

Curtis
Publishing
Company

Magazines (years published by Curtis)	Tribune and Farmer (1879–84?) Ladies' Home Journal (1883–1968) The Saturday Evening Post (1898–1969, 1971–82) Country Gentleman (1911–55) Jack & Jill (1938–69) Holiday (1946–77) The American Home (1958–68) Bride to Be Status (?–1969)

Comic books (Novelty Press)	Blue Bolt Target and the Targeteers

Key figures	George Horace Lorimer Louisa Knapp Curtis Edward William Bok Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist Ben Hibbs Ada Campbell Rose

Curtis–Martin
Newspapers

Newspapers	Public Ledger The Philadelphia Inquirer (1930–34) New York Evening Post

Key figures	John Charles Martin

Curtis Circulation

Legacy

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