Katherine 'Kate' Pulitzer (Davis)

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Katherine 'Kate' Pulitzer (Davis)

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Birthplace: Georgetown, Washington, D.C., United States
Death: July 29, 1927 (74)
Deauville, Normandie, France
Place of Burial: NYC, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Wife of Joseph Pulitzer
Mother of Ralph Pulitzer; Lucille Irma Pulitzer; Joseph Pulitzer; Constance Helen Elmslie; Herbert "Tony" Pulitzer and 1 other

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About Katherine 'Kate' Pulitzer (Davis)

On June 19, 1878 as Kate Davis, she married Joseph Pulitzer in the District of Columbia.

TIME Magazine August 8, 1927 Milestones Died Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, 78, widow of the founder of the present New York World at Deauville, France. She, once Miss Kate Davis of Georgetown, D.C., was a cousin of President Jefferson Davis of the Southern Confederacy. To the last her remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned and she was of the elect among United States hostesses in Europe possessing superb homes in Nice and Deauville.

Three sons survive: Ralph and Herbert Pulitzer, respectively editor and an executive of the World and publisher, Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Also has living two daughters, Edith, wife of William Scoville Moore [1886-1975] and Constance, wife of William Gray Elmslie.

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Katherine 'Kate' Pulitzer (Davis)'s Timeline

1853
January 9, 1853
Georgetown, Washington, D.C., United States
1879
June 11, 1879
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
1880
September 30, 1880
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
1885
March 21, 1885
New York, New York County, NY, United States
1888
December 13, 1888
France
1896
November 20, 1896
New York, New York, United States
1927
July 29, 1927
Age 74
Deauville, Normandie, France
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Bronx, NYC, New York, United States