Family tree of James LAUGHLIN

Author, Publisher, Producer

American Born James LAUGHLIN

American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing

Born on October 30, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , United States

Died on November 12, 1997 in Norfolk, Connecticut , United States

Born on October 30 71

Deceased on November 12 43

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Laughlin

James H.

1806 - 1882

Irwin

Anne McCully

1813 - 1885

Page

John Harding

1804 - 1871

Ormsby

Sidney

1806 - 1880

Rea

William

1809 - 1892

Robinson

Matilda

1813 -

Childs

James Harvey

1834 - 1862

Howe

Mary Howard

1835 - 1903

Laughlin

James H.

1847 - 1919

Page

Sidney Ford

1848 - 1925

Rea

William Holdship

1856 - 1929

Childs

Mary Robinson

1859 - 1947

Laughlin

Henry Hughart

1878 - 1938

Rea

Marjorie

1884 - 1966

Laughlin

James

1914 - 1997

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He was born in Pittsburgh, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory Rea Laughlin. Laughlin's family had made its fortune with the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, founded three generations earlier by his great grandfather, James H. Laughlin, and this wealth would partially fund Laughlin's future endeavors in publishing. As Laughlin once wrote, "none of this would have been possible without the industry of my ancestors, the canny Irishmen who immigrated in 1824 from County Down to Pittsburgh, where they built up what became the fourth largest steel company in the country. I bless them with every breath." Laughlin's boyhood ...