Marriage and Family
In 1878 at the age of 31, Pulitzer married Katherine "Kate" Davis, an intelligent, compassionate woman of high social standing from a wealthy Mississippi planter family. She was five years older than he.
They had seven children, five of whom lived to adulthood: Ralph, Joseph II, Constance, Edith and Herbert. On December 31, 1897, their older daughter, Lucille Pulitzer, died at the age of 17 from typhoid fever.
The family continued to be involved in the operation of the St. Louis paper for several generations until April of 1995, when Joseph Pulitzer IV resigned from the paper in a management dispute.
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