Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — MEN OF NOTE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEN OF NOTE.

Isaac W. England, Late Publisher of the 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 parents to America. Some years later he became citj’ editor of the Tribune. In 18G4 he took a position in the Custom House under Simeon Draper,' and later went as a Government agent to Charleston, S. C. Mr. Dana started the Chicago Republican, now the Inter Ocean, and se.cured Mr. England’s sendees 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 1888 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.