Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (May 24, 1895 – August 29, 1979) was a U.S. broadcasting businessman, magazine and newspaper publisher.
Born in 1895, his original name was Solomon Neuhaus. Newhouse is the namesake of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the founder of the current empire of Advance Publications, now run by his son Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr.
One of the vessels of the Staten Island Ferry is also named after him.
His great-grandson, S.I. Newhouse IV, is featured in a documentary called Born Rich about the experience of growing up as the heir to one of the world's greatest fortunes.
S.I. Newhouse started the run-up in auction prices for works by Andy Warhol when he purchased "Orange Marilyn" (1964) for $17.3 million from Sotheby's New York on May 14, 1998.
Mr. Newhouse was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1989.
Newhouse is buried in the Baron Hirsch Cemetery on Staten Island.[1]
See also
- Donald Newhouse
- Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr.
- Samuel Irving Newhouse IV
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