Ladies Home Journal was first published February 16, 1883 as a women's supplement to the Tribune and Farmer. The following year it became an independent publication. It was owned by Cyrus H. Curtis and edited by his wife, Louisa Knapp until she was replaced by Edward William Bok (alternate spelling is Buck) in 1889. Until 1919 he published the work of social reformers such as Jane Addams.
