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Creator
New York Times Company
Call number
MssCol 17799
Physical description
3.67 linear feet (9 boxes, 1 folder)
Preferred Citation

New York Times Company records. Julius Ochs Adler papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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Julius Ochs Adler was nephew to Adolph Ochs, the publisher of the New York Times. Adler worked in various capacities at the New York Times, including general manager, vice president, and was an original executor and trustee of the company. In addition he also served as president and publisher of the Chattanooga Times. He was a retired officer in the Army, having served in both World Wars. The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, photographs, and legal documents. Approximately one-third of the material deals with the Ochs Estate. Most of the remainder concerns Adler's military service, along with some family and personal material: there are relatively few documents pertaining to the operation of the New York Times.

Biographical/historical information

Julius Ochs Adler was born on December 3, 1892 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Harry C. and Ada Adler. Ada was Adolph Ochs' sister. Julius graduated from Princeton in 1914 and then went to work at the New York Times. He joined the Army and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in April 1917, and in August of that same year was promoted to Captain. He saw action on the Western Front during World War I. By October of 1918 he was a Major and had been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

Adler returned to the New York Times in May 1919, where he worked alongside his cousin-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, as an assistant to Adolph Ochs. During the 1920s and 1930s, Adler was in the Army Reserves. When Adolph Ochs died, in April 1935, Adler became the general manager and vice president of The Times, and president and publisher of the Chattanooga Times. He was also one of the three original executors and trustees of the Ochs Estate (the others were Ochs' daughter, Iphigene, and her husband Arthur Hays Sulzberger). With his parents and other members of the family remaining in Chattanooga, Adler initially maintained close ties with the city and the Chattanooga Times, and bore the major responsibility for handling the Ochs Estate's interests there.

In 1940 he was reactivated into the Army and became a Commander at Fort Dix in New Jersey. In 1941 he achieved the rank of Brigadier General, and then in September of that same year he was promoted to Assistant Division Commander of the 6th Infantry Division in New Guinea in the South Pacific. Adler was relieved from duty in November 1944 because of illness. He then resumed his position at the New York Times, devoting himself largely to the business side of the paper, spending less time at the Chattanooga Times.

In 1922, he married Barbara Stettheimer. The couple had three children: Julius, Jr., Barbara and Nancy. He died in New York City on October 3, 1955, at the age of 62, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Scope and arrangement

The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, photographs, and legal documents. Approximately one-third of the material deals with the Ochs Estate. Most of the remainder concerns Adler's military service, along with some family and personal material: there are relatively few documents pertaining to the operation of the New York Times. Additional material about Adler can be found in the Adolph Ochs Papers and the Arthur Hays Sulzberger Papers.

Material germane to two or more titles is not, as a rule, duplicated in the relevant folders: instead, it is stored in the one deemed most important, and cross-referenced to other relevant titles. Papers dealing with specific subjects are stored in the subject folders rather than in the biographical folders of the persons involved, and their names are covered by cross-references made from the principal names and the next most important subject titles, but they are not exhaustive.

The New York Times Company records. Julius Ochs Adler papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

New York Times Company

Processing information

Compiled by Leslie Reyman.

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328