CUPPY, HAZLITT ALVA: 1863-1934.
Hazlitt Alva Cuppy , son of the Rev. W. T. and Martha Ann Cuppy, was born in Shelburn, Ind., on Oct. 3, 1863. After graduating from Franklin College in 1888, he spent a year at both Oxford and Berlin universities, received an M.A. degree from Heidelberg, and was awarded Ph.D. degrees by Heidelberg and by the University of Paris . He returned to the U. S. in 1893 to become founder and editor of THE ALTRUISTIC REVIEW. From 1895 to 1897 he was editor of the BAPTIST UNION, from 1896 to 1898 director of the University of Chicago Press, and from 1898 to 1906 publisher and editor of PUBLIC OPINION. He was also, from 1893 to 1895, an associate editor of the WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION and at one time was correspondent for the LONDON ILLUSTRATED NEWS SKETCH.
Mr. Cuppy eventually left the editorial field to manufacture chocolate in Lititz, Pa., where he remained for several years. During the first World War he was a director and American representative of a large German corporation. He later started a factory of his own in San Francisco, where he died in 1934. Mr. Cuppy married Elizabeth Overstreet in 1895.
page: 80[View Page 80]Information from Who Was Who in America; the Barry Ms.; and the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, Jan. 27, 1934.
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