AKA Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr.

Born: 24-May-1895
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Died: 29-Aug-1979
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Baron Hirsch Cemetery, Port Richmond, NY

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Publisher
Party Affiliation: Democratic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Founder of Advance Publications

Born Solomon Isadore Neuhaus, grew up in Bayonne, NJ. Managed the flagging Bayonne Times beginning age 17, and was able to turn the paper around; his first newspaper acquisition was the Staten Island Advance, 1922 for $98K.

Father: Meier Neuhaus (asthmatic, d. 1945)
Mother: Rose Arenfeldt
Brother: Norman Newhouse
Brother: Theodore Newhouse
Sister: Gertrude Diamond
Sister: Estelle Miron
Sister: Naomi Newhouse
Wife: Mitzi Epstein (b. 1902, m. 8-May-1924, two sons)
Son: Si Newhouse, Jr. (Conde Nast)
Son: Donald Newhouse (Advance Newspapers)

    Law School: New Jersey Law School (1916)

    Advance Publications Founder & CEO
    Condé Nast Owner (1959)
    Lincoln Center Benefactor
    Stroke 1978, Jul-1979
    Russian Ancestry Paternal
    Austrian Ancestry Maternal
    Jewish Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Insomnia

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