Evening star., 1949-02-08
Samuel H. Kaufman Elected
President of The Star Company
Crosby N. Boyd New
Business Manager;
Other Officers Named

Samuel Hay Kaufman. so. an
employe of The Evening Star
Newspaper Company for % years,
became it's president yesterday.
His election by the company's
Board of Directors brings long
cycle of newspaper history toI
full turn. The Office to which Mr..
Kaufman has succeeded first
was held by his grandfather. the
first S. H. Kaufman. in 1868.
Crosby N. Boyd was appointed
business manager of The Star, a
position previously held by Mr..
Kaufman.
Four other officers and two new
directors, also named at yester-
days board meeting, are third
and fourth generation descend
ants of the men who organized
the present Star company 80 years
ago. They are: Rudolph Max
Kaufman. vice president; New
bold Moves. jr.. secretary; Mr..
Boyd, treasurer; Rudolph Kauff-
mann II, assistant secretary
treasurer. and Godfrey Willis
Kaufman and Crosby Stuart
Noyes, members of the board.
The company's new president
is its sixth. The original S. H.
Kaufman held Office from 1868
to 1879. During an interval OF
seven years, the position was filled
by George w. Adams. with Mr..
Kaufman resuming office in
1886. He served until his death
in 1906.
!. Once Headed by T. w. NOyes.
For the next three years. the
late Theodore w. Noyes was presi-
dent of the company. as we'll as
editor of the paper. His brother,
Frank B. Moves. took over the
presidency in 1909. Frank Noyes,
who also was president OF the
Associated Press for many years.
resigned in February, 1948, toI
become chairman of the board,
an Office which was vacated when
he died last December. He was
succeeded as president by Fleming
Newbold, his brother -in-law. Mr..
Newbold died eight days ago.
The Star was first published in
1852 by Joseph B. Tate. who sold
it the following year to w. D.
Wallach and w. H. Hope. On
October 81, 1867. the newspaper
was purchased by five men: The
first S. H. Kaufman. the first
Crosby Stuart Noyes, Mr.. Adams.
Clarence D. Baker and Alexander
r. Shepherd. later Governor of the
District of Columbia. For one
year the publishing firm was
known as Noyes. Baker & Co.
Then having been granted a
charter by act of Congress, the
proprieters formally incorporated,
and The Evening Star Newspaper
Co. came into being.
Mr.. Baker withdrew from the
firm in 1869. and Mr.. Shepherd
followed suit five years later.
Since that day. the Star has been
owned and managed by descend
ants of the three other men.
In nominating S. H. Kaufman
for president of the company at
yesterdays board meeting, B. M.
McKelway, editor Of The Star.
recalled that Mr.. Kaufman had
been carefully trained for the
job by Frank Noyes and Fleming
Newbold.
'"They were very exacting task
masters" he said.
Began Career as Clerk.
Mr. Kaufman began his ca
reer on The Star as clerk behind
the lobby counter. Subsequently.
he worked in every department
of the newspapers business Of
flee and in nearly all of its me-
chanical departments.
He served for a time as assist
ant superintendent of the building
and plant, and in 1926 was made
assistant advertising manager. He
became a director of the company
the following year. In 1929, Mr..
Kaufman was promoted to as
sistant business manager. He
first assumed a corporate Office in
1886, when he became assistant
secretary treasurer. He was elect
ed treasurer in 1941 and ap-
pointed business manager in 1914.
One year ago he was chosen as