Louisa Knapp Curtis

It became one of the most popular magazines published in the United States[2] and reached a circulation of one million within ten years.

Curtis turned over the editorship to Edward Bok in 1889 but she continued to author a column and provide oversight.

[4] After a fire destroyed the Boston publishing plant for Cyrus' newspaper, they moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876 and he founded the Tribune and Farmer.

The first issue of the supplement was released in December 1883 and titled Ladies' Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper.

[7] She died on February 25, 1910, in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.