Francis Scott Street (October 20, 1831 – April 15, 1883), with partner Francis Shubael Smith were the owners of Street & Smith publishing company in New York City .
4-518: Francis Street may refer to: Francis Scott Street (1831–1883), co-owner of Street & Smith publishing company in New York City Francis Street (cricketer) (1851–1928), English cricketer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
8-651: A grocer. In 1849 he went to work as a bookkeeper for Amos J. Williamson , the publisher of the New York Dispatch , a weekly newspaper. Street teamed up with Francis Shubael Smith , then an editor at the Dispatch in 1855 when they bought a failing magazine together. They then bought the New York Dispatch Weekly in 1858 for $ 40,000. The sum was to be paid to Williamson over 5 years. Street and Smith were able to increase circulation, and at
12-549: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francis_Street&oldid=932830035 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Francis Scott Street He was born in New York City in 1831, but moved to New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1844 to work for
16-812: The time it became one of the most widely circulated New York City weekly newspapers. Francis married Susan E. Potts (1836-1883), daughter of Abram and Elizabeth Potts, around 1858 and they lived in Greenpoint in Brooklyn in 1860. Susan died on June 5, 1883, just 8 weeks after her husband died. Together they had two sons and two daughters. Francis had a cousin: Jacob Street (c1790-?) from Pitminster , England who moved to Newfoundland , Canada around 1820. Jacob left Canada to travel back to England in 1858–1860, and then he went to New York City where he stayed with his cousin Francis Scott Street. He
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