# Chicago Times > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chicago_Times > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chicago_Times.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Times > Source revision: 1356839221 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American newspaper (1854–1895) Not to be confused with [The Times (Chicago)](/source/The_Times_(Chicago)), [Chicago Daily Times](/source/Chicago_Daily_Times), or [Chicago Sun-Times](/source/Chicago_Sun-Times). Chicago Times Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner(s) James W. Sheahan (1854–1861) Wilbur F. Storey (1861–1884) James W. Scott (1895) H. H. Kohlsaat (1895–1901) Founder James W. Sheahan Founded 1854; 172 years ago (1854) Ceased publication 1901; merged with the Chicago Record to form the Chicago Record-Herald City Chicago, Illinois Country United States Media of the United States List of newspapers The ***Chicago Times*** was a [newspaper](/source/Newspaper) in [Chicago](/source/Chicago) from 1854 to 1895, when it merged with the *Chicago Herald*,[1] 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](/source/Chicago_Record-Herald)*. The *Times* was founded in 1854[1] by James W. Sheahan, Daniel Cameron, and [Isaac Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Isaac_Cook&action=edit&redlink=1)[2] with the support of Democratic leader [Stephen A. Douglas](/source/Stephen_A._Douglas).[3] In 1861, after the paper was purchased by Democratic journalist [Wilbur F. Storey](/source/Wilbur_F._Storey), the *Times* began espousing the [Copperhead](/source/Copperheads_(politics)) point of view, in opposition to President Abraham Lincoln and especially his policy of emancipating the slaves. During the [Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War), General [Ambrose Burnside](/source/Ambrose_Burnside), head of the [Department of the Ohio](/source/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](/source/Joseph_Medill), editor of the *[Chicago Tribune](/source/Chicago_Tribune)*, maintained a bitter rivalry for some time. In 1888, the newspaper saw the brief addition of [Finley Peter Dunne](/source/Finley_Peter_Dunne) to its staff. Dunne was a columnist whose [Mr. Dooley](/source/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*,[4] a newspaper founded in 1881 by [James W. Scott](/source/James_W._Scott). After Scott's sudden death in the weeks following the merger, [H. H. Kohlsaat](/source/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](/source/Sound_money)" (pro-gold) policies (against [free silver](/source/Free_silver)) in the [1896 election](/source/1896_U.S._presidential_election).[5] Kohlsaat bought the *Chicago Record* from *[Chicago Daily News](/source/Chicago_Daily_News)* publisher [Victor F. Lawson](/source/Victor_F._Lawson) in 1901 and merged it with the *Times-Herald* to form the *[Chicago Record-Herald](/source/Chicago_Record-Herald)*. Frank B. Noyes acquired an interest in the new newspaper at the time and served as publisher, with Kohlsaat as editor.[6] ## See also - *[Chicago Record-Herald](/source/Chicago_Record-Herald)* ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ru_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ru_1-1) ["Module 1 Chapter 2. From Town to City"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090316062709/http://www.roosevelt.edu/chicagohistory/mod1-chap2.htm). *History of Chicago from Trading Post to Metropolis*. External Studies Program, University College, Roosevelt University. Archived from [the original](http://www.roosevelt.edu/chicagohistory/mod1-chap2.htm) on March 16, 2009. Retrieved July 23, 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Demise of Isaac Cook"](https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/27013). *hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu*. House Divided (Dickinson College) (originally published in the Chicago Tribune on June 25, 1886). June 25, 1886. Retrieved March 13, 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Sandburg, Carl](/source/Carl_Sandburg) (1959). *The Fiery Trial*. New York: Dell. p. 90. [ASIN](/source/ASIN_(identifier)) [B000DEMVIC](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000DEMVIC). F77. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-chron2_4-0)** [About The Chicago times-herald. (Chicago, Ill.) 1895-1901](http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045738/), chroniclingamerica, Retrieved 24 April 2013 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Blanchard, Rufus (1900). [*Discovery and Conquests of the North-west, with the History of Chicago, volume 2*](https://books.google.com/books?id=9pItAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA243). pp. 243–244. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["The Chicago Record sold"](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/03/27/118462897.pdf) (PDF). *New York Times*. March 27, 1901. Retrieved June 18, 2013. ## 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](https://doi.org/10.2307/1916392)." *Mississippi Valley Historical Review* 17, no. 4 (1931): 557–580. [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [1916392](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1916392) - 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](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.105.2-3.0133) - 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](https://archive.org/details/toprintnewsraise0000just/page/n7/mode/2up) ### 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](https://doi.org/10.2307/1916392)." *Mississippi Valley Historical Review* 17, no. 4 (1931): 557–580. [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [1916392](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1916392) - 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](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.105.2-3.0133) - Walsh, Justin E. "To Print the News and Raise Hell: Wilbur F. Storey's Chicago Times." *Journalism Quarterly* 40, no. 4 (1963): 497–510. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Chicago Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Times) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Times?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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