Chicago Times

The Chicago Times was a newspaper in Chicago from 1854 to 1895, when it merged with the Chicago Herald,<ref name="ru"/> to become the Chicago Times-Herald. The Times-Herald effectively disappeared in 1901 when it merged with the Chicago Record to become the Chicago Record-Herald.

The Times was founded in 1854<ref name="ru">Template:Cite book</ref> by James W. Sheahan, Daniel Cameron, and Isaac Cook<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> with the support of Democratic leader Stephen A. Douglas.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1861, after the paper was purchased by Democratic journalist Wilbur F. Storey, the Times began espousing the Copperhead point of view, in opposition to President Abraham Lincoln and especially his policy of emancipating the slaves. During the Civil War, General Ambrose Burnside, head of the Department of the Ohio, suppressed the paper in 1863 because of its hostility to the Union cause, but Lincoln lifted the ban when he received word of it.

Storey and Republican Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, maintained a bitter rivalry for some time. In 1888, the newspaper saw the brief addition of Finley Peter Dunne to its staff. Dunne was a columnist whose Mr. Dooley satires won him national recognition. After just one year, Dunne left the Times to work for the rival Chicago Tribune.

In 1895, the Times became the Chicago Times-Herald after a merger with the Chicago Herald,<ref name="chron2">About The Chicago times-herald. (Chicago, Ill.) 1895-1901, chroniclingamerica, Retrieved 24 April 2013</ref> a newspaper founded in 1881 by James W. Scott. After Scott's sudden death in the weeks following the merger, H. H. Kohlsaat took over the new paper. He changed its direction from a "Democratic" publication to an "independent Republican" one. It supported "sound money" (pro-gold) policies (against free silver) in the 1896 election.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Kohlsaat bought the Chicago Record from Chicago Daily News publisher Victor F. Lawson in 1901 and merged it with the Times-Herald to form the Chicago Record-Herald. Frank B. Noyes acquired an interest in the new newspaper at the time and served as publisher, with Kohlsaat as editor.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• Chicago Record-Herald

Further reading

• Blair, Cecil Clyde. " The Chicago Democratic Press and the Civil War" (PhD dissertation, U of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1947. T-00560), online at academic libraries.
• Ellis, L.E. "The Chicago Times during the Civil War," Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1932 pp. 135–182.
• Karamanski, Theodore J. Rally 'Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War (Nelson-Hall, 1993).
• Klement, Frank L. The Copperheads of the Middle West (University Chicago Press, 1960).
• Nord, David Paul, "The Public Community: The Urbanization of Journalism in Chicago", Journal of Urban History 11 (1985):411-41.
• Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago: Volume II: From Town to City 1848–1871 (1937)
• Sanger, Donald Bridgman. "The Chicago Times and the Civil War." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 17, no. 4 (1931): 557–580. Template:JSTOR
• Swan, Patricia B.. and James B. Swan. "James W. Sheahan: Stephen A. Douglas Supporter and Partisan Chicago Journalist." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (2012) 105#2-3 pp 133–166 in JSTOR
• Walsh, Justin E. "To Print the News and Raise Hell: Wilbur F. Storey's Chicago 'Times.'" Journalism Quarterly (1963) 40#4 pp: 497-510. doi: 10.1177/107769906304000402
• Walsh, Justin E. "Radically and Thoroughly Democratic: Wilber F. Storey and The Detroit Free Press 1853 to 1861." Michigan History 47 (1963): 201.
• Walsh, Justin E., To Print the News and Raise Hell! A Biography of Wilbur F. Storey (1968) online

Primary sources

• Wilkie, Franc C., Personal Reminiscences of Thirty-five Years in Journalism (1891) Storey's assistant for many years

• Sanger, Donald Bridgman. "The Chicago Times and the Civil War." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 17, no. 4 (1931): 557–580. Template:JSTOR
• Patricia B. Swan and James B. Swan. "James W. Sheahan: Stephen A. Douglas Supporter and Partisan Chicago Journalist." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (2012) 105#2-3 pp 133–166 in JSTOR
• Walsh, Justin E. "To Print the News and Raise Hell: Wilbur F. Storey's Chicago Times." Journalism Quarterly 40, no. 4 (1963): 497–510.