Francis Scott Street
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Francis Shubael Smith
Francis Shubael Smith I partnered with Francis Scott Street and started the publishing firm of Street & Smith.-Biography:...
were the owners of Street & Smith
Street & Smith
Street & Smith or Street & Smith Publications, Inc. was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as pulp fiction and dime novels. They also published comic books and sporting yearbooks...
publishing company in New York City
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New York Dispatch
He was born in New York CityNew York City
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in 1831, but moved to New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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in 1844 to work for a grocer. In 1849 he went to work as a bookkeeper for Amos J. Williamson, the publisher of the New York Dispatch
New York Dispatch
The New York Dispatch also called the New York Weekly Dispatch and the Weekly Dispatch, was a newspaper published in New York City....
, a weekly newspaper. Street teamed up with Francis Shubael Smith
Francis Shubael Smith
Francis Shubael Smith I partnered with Francis Scott Street and started the publishing firm of Street & Smith.-Biography:...
, 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 the time it became one of the most widely circulated New York City weekly newspapers.
Marriage
Francis married Susan E. Potts (1836-1883), daughter of Abram and Elizabeth Potts, around 1858 and they lived in GreenpointGreenpoint, Brooklyn
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in Brooklyn
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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
Canada
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to travel back to England in 1858-1860, and then he went to New York City
New York City
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where he stayed with his cousin Francis Scott Street.
Death
He was suffering from liver disease for several years but died from a cerebral hemorrhage at his home at 137 Bedford Avenue in BrooklynBrooklyn
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. He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, Kings County , New York. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.-History:...
in Brooklyn, New York in a coffin of red cedar with gold trimmings.