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Moses Louis Annenberg

Also Known As: "Moe"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kalvishken, East Prussia
Death: July 20, 1942 (65)
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Place of Burial: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Tobias Annenberg and Sarah Annenberg
Husband of Sadie Cecilia Annenberg
Father of Esther Annenberg; Polly Annenberg; Janet Dorothy Hooker; Enid A. Haupt; Walter Annenberg and 1 other
Brother of Jacob D. Annenberg; Annie Balch; Rahly Rose; Eva Epstein; Max Annenberg and 2 others

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About Moe Annenberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Annenberg

Moses "Moe" Louis Annenberg (February 11, 1877 – July 20, 1942) was a Jewish American newspaper publisher, who purchased The Philadelphia Inquirer, the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States in 1936. The Inquirer has the sixteenth largest average weekday U.S. newspaper circulation, and has won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes.

Annenberg began his career as a Chicago newspaper salesman at the Chicago Tribune, then, for the Hearst Corporation. He eventually built a fortune and the successful publishing company that became Triangle Publications, Inc. During the Roosevelt administration, he was indicted for tax evasion and, after pleading guilty, was sentenced to two years; he died in prison.

Several sources have documented his links to organized crime, such as his involvement in Chicago's "Circulation Wars" and his later ownership of the National Racing Wire, though it is widely under reported.

He and his wife, Sadie, were the parents of the publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg, the philanthropist Enid Haupt, and six other children.

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Moe Annenberg's Timeline

1877
February 11, 1877
Kalvishken, East Prussia
1901
October 8, 1901
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States
1903
February 28, 1903
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
1904
October 13, 1904
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
1906
May 13, 1906
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
1908
March 13, 1908
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States
1914
April 22, 1914
WI, United States
1942
July 20, 1942
Age 65
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Mt. Sinai Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States