page_title: Adolph Ochs
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Adolph Ochs / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: US postage stamp, 1976.
context_page_description: Adolph Simon Ochs was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of The New York Times and The Chattanooga Times.
context_section_description: Ochs died on April 8, 1935, during a visit to Chattanooga. He is buried at the Temple Israel Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.
  His only daughter, Iphigene Bertha Ochs, married Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who became publisher of the Times after Adolph died.  Her son-in-law Orvil Dryfoos was publisher from 1961–63, followed by her son Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger.  Her daughter, Ruth Holmberg, became publisher of The Chattanooga Times. Ruth Holmberg's son is Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha. Ochs' great-grandson Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. was publisher of The New York Times from 1992 until 2017.
  One of his nephews, Julius Ochs Adler, worked at The New York Times for more than 40 years, becoming general manager in 1935, after Ochs died. Another nephew, John Bertram Oakes, the son of his brother George Washington Ochs Oakes, in 1961 became editorial page editor of the Times' editorial page, which he edited until 1976. Ochs was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1982. Another nephew, Adolph Shelby Ochs, was treasurer and a director of The Chattanooga Times. He was married to Mrs. Theodosia Fitzgerald Gray of Danville, Virginia, granddaughter of Dan River Inc. founder T.B. Fitzgerald, niece of Wachovia Bank founder James Alexander Gray and cousin of Bowman Gray Sr., former president and chairman of R. J. Reynolds.
caption: A 1976 U.S. Postage Stamp commemorating Ochs.
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