Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1885 — MEN OF NOTE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEN OF NOTE.

Isaac VV. England, Late Publisher of tho New York Sun.

Isaac W. England, for many years the publisher of the New York Sun, who died m that city not long ago, was bom in 1832, at Bath, England. When a boy he learned the printer’s trade. In 1847 he came with his ]>arents to America. Some years latex he became city editor of the Tribune. In 1864 he took a position in the Custom House under Simeon Draper, and latex went as a Government agent to Charleston. S. C. Mr. Dana started the Chicago Republican, now the Inter Ocean, and secured Mr. England’s services on that journal. He was afterward editor of the Jersey City Journal, and when Mr. Dana secured the Sun he was managing editor for a year. In 1868 Mr. England entered the publication office and became the publisher of the paper. After Frank Leslie’s death he took charge of the Leslie publications, and, although the property was $250,000 in debt, in two years he put the business of the establishment on a paying basis.