Charles E. Strong
Charles E. Strong was born on March 28, 1841, in Union City, Michigan to George Strong and Emily Maxfield. His father was a speculator who owned $600 of real estate in 1860. The family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, around 1850. In the early 1850s, Strong was apprenticed to Sherman M. Booth, the publisher of the Wisconsin Free Democrat. His apprenticeship lasted for four years, and by 1860, he was working as a printer. He married Prussian immigrant Jane Nolden in the early 1860s, and they had at least two children: Emily, born around 1863; and George, born around 1864.
Strong became foreman of the Evening Wisconsin newspaper in the 1860s, and he held the position until October 1870. By 1870, he owned $1,500 of real estate and $100 of personal property. He moved to Chicago in the early 1870s and operated the Chicago Newspaper Union. According to one writer, “under his management and direction, [it became] the largest auxiliary printing house in the world.” He fell ill in September 1894, and he died of “paralysis of the heart” in Chicago on November 14, 1894.
Image: Charles E. Strong (The Watertown News, 21 November 1894)
DATABASE CONTENT
| (1558) | Strong, Charles E. | 1841-03-28 | 1894-11-14 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (5425) [recipient] ~ Sylvester Strong to Charles E. Strong, 4 February 1863
People - Records: 4
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878-1922, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865, available from Ancestry.com; The Watertown News (Watertown, WI), 21 November 1894.
