Pine, Charles N.

Born: 1822-11-05 Camden, New Jersey

Died: 1894-10-26 Orange County, New York

Flourished: 1855 to 1862 Illinois

Charles N. Pine, newspaper publisher and public official, taught school briefly before beginning his career in publishing as an employee of the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post from 1850 to 1851. He then worked in the post office in Philadelphia for three years before he returned to his native Camden and founded Jersey Blue, a Whig newspaper. In 1855 Pine moved to Illinois, settling first in Princeton where he was the founding publisher of the Bureau County Democrat, 1856 to 1858. Pine was appointed postmaster of Princeton in 1856. Two years later he relocated to Chicago, where he partnered with Isaac Cook to found the Chicago Herald as an organ of James Buchanan’s administration. Pine became a leader among the Illinois Democrats who supported Buchanan and who formed an alliance with Republicans against Stephen A. Douglas. In 1858 Pine was appointed U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Illinois. Pine and Cook sold the Herald in 1859 and in 1862 Pine returned to Philadelphia, where he continued his career in publishing. He married Katherine Ware Stevenson and was survived by two children.

Alfred Mathews, History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: R. T. Peck, 1886), 873; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Pine Ward, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, 321; Franklin William Scott, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879, vol. 6 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1910), 73, 289; Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls, Records of the Post Office Department, RG 28, 1855-1865, 20a:9; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 2, Chicago, Cook County, IL, 90; Camden Daily Courier (NJ), 26 October 1894, 1:4; The New York Herald (NY), 27 October 1894, 12:2; Gravestones of Charles Newbold Pine and Katherine Ware Stevenson Pine, Saint Philips Episcopal Cemetery, West Warwick, RI.