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href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, US</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Businessman<br />Sports team owner<br />Newspaper owner</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">co-owner of the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Devils" title="New Jersey Devils">New Jersey Devils</a><br /> co-owner of the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Nets" class="mw-redirect" title="New Jersey Nets">New Jersey Nets</a><br /> co-owner of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Inquirer" title="The Philadelphia Inquirer">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lewis Katz</b> (January 11, 1942 – May 31, 2014) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and <a href="/wiki/Newspaper_publisher" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper publisher">newspaper publisher</a>, who was a co-owner of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Inquirer" title="The Philadelphia Inquirer">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Katz&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Katz was born to a Jewish family<sup id="cite_ref-JewishExp_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JewishExp-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey">Camden, New Jersey</a>, on January 11, 1942,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and grew up in the Parkside section of the city. He was raised along with his sister, Sandra Katz (Wolff) by their mother, a secretary at <a href="/wiki/RCA" title="RCA">RCA</a>, after their father died when they were very young.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-obit_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-obit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Katz&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Katz became a lawyer and businessman, making millions in parking lots, billboards and sports. Katz was a former owner of Kinney Parking Systems, at the time the largest parking company in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, and the former chairman of Interstate Outdoor Advertising, one of the largest regional outdoor-advertising firms in the country. He was the majority owner of five radio stations in Atlantic and Cape May counties at the <a href="/wiki/Jersey_Shore" title="Jersey Shore">Jersey Shore</a>, and a founding partner of the law firm Katz, Ettin & Levine in <a href="/wiki/Cherry_Hill,_New_Jersey" title="Cherry Hill, New Jersey">Cherry Hill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-philly.com_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philly.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports_ownership">Sports ownership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Katz&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sports ownership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Katz invested in the two New Jersey sports teams back in 2000. He was part of the YankeeNets/Puck Holdings group along with <a href="/wiki/Ray_Chambers" title="Ray Chambers">Ray Chambers</a>. The group purchased the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Devils" title="New Jersey Devils">New Jersey Devils</a> from their original owner Dr. <a href="/wiki/John_McMullen_(engineer)" title="John McMullen (engineer)">John McMullen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cbs_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbs-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Katz's ownership involvement of both teams ended in 2003 when the YankeeNets group disintegrated with the Devils being sold to <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Vanderbeek" title="Jeffrey Vanderbeek">Jeffrey Vanderbeek</a> and the Nets sold to <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Ratner" title="Bruce Ratner">Bruce Ratner</a>. The Devils have since been sold again while the Nets were also sold and moved to <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cbs_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbs-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Katz&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Philanthropy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Katz was the director of the Katz Foundation, which supports charitable, educational and medical causes. To support pioneering medical research, Katz established an annual prize and endowed a visiting professorship in cardiovascular research at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, where he served on the board of visitors of the medical school. His $15 million gift to The Dickinson Schools of Law of The <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University" title="Pennsylvania State University">Pennsylvania State University</a> helped fund the renovation of historic Trickett Hall at Dickinson Law in Carlisle, PA, and fund the development of a law school building for <a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Law" title="Penn State Law">Penn State Law</a> in University Park, PA, both of which bear his name. As a native of <a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey">Camden, New Jersey</a>, Katz established several programs to help Camden children. Katz donated to Jewish organizations, focused on young Jewish<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> entrepreneurs.<sup id="cite_ref-GI_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GI-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Katz was a donor to the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, <a href="/wiki/Congregation_Beth_El_(Voorhees,_New_Jersey)" title="Congregation Beth El (Voorhees, New Jersey)">Congregation Beth El</a> in <a href="/wiki/Voorhees,_New_Jersey" class="mw-redirect" title="Voorhees, New Jersey">Voorhees, New Jersey</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_American_Jewish_History" class="mw-redirect" title="National Museum of American Jewish History">National Museum of American Jewish History</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JewishExp_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JewishExp-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On October 13, 2015, Temple University's medical school was dedicated as the <a href="/wiki/Temple_University_School_of_Medicine" title="Temple University School of Medicine">Lewis Katz School of Medicine</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Katz&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1966, Katz married Marjorie Nemarow; they had a son, Drew Katz, and a daughter, Melissa Katz.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His wife died in 2013, approximately five months before Katz's own death.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 31, 2014, Katz and six others died when a <a href="/wiki/2014_Bedford_Gulfstream_IV_crash" title="2014 Bedford Gulfstream IV crash">chartered airplane crashed on takeoff</a> at <a href="/wiki/Hanscom_Field" title="Hanscom Field">Hanscom Field</a> and burst into flames. An FAA spokesperson said that the <a href="/wiki/Gulfstream_IV" title="Gulfstream IV">Gulfstream IV</a> <a href="/wiki/Business_jet" title="Business jet">business jet</a> apparently ran off Runway 11 as the aircraft was departing for <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_City,_New_Jersey" title="Atlantic City, New Jersey">Atlantic City, New Jersey</a>, failing to become airborne because the <a href="/wiki/Gust_lock" title="Gust lock">gust lock</a> was left engaged.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Katz&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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