RAYMOND, HENRY JARVIS (182o-1869), American journalist, was born near the village of Lima, Livingston county, (N.Y.), Jan. 24, 1820. He graduated from the University of Ver mont in 1840. After teaching, acting as correspondent for various papers, assisting Horace Greeley (q.v.) on the New Yorker and the Tribune, and serving on the Courier and Enquirer, Raymond obtained backing for a venture of his own, and the first issue of the New York Times appeared Sept. 18, 1851. Of this journal Raymond was editor and chief proprietor until his death. Ray mond was a member of the New York Assembly in 185o and speaker in 1851 and again in 1862. He supported the views of the radical anti-slavery wing of the Whig Party in the North. His nomination over Greeley on the Whig ticket for lieutenant-gov ernor and his election in 1854 led to the dissolution of the famous political "firm" of Seward, Weed and Greeley. He took a promi nent part in the formation of the Republican Party, and drafted the famous "Address to the People" adopted by the Republican convention which met in Pittsburgh in Feb. 1856. He was a mem
ber of the National House of Representatives in 1865-67. He retired from public life in 1867 and devoted his time to newspaper work until his death in New York city, June 18, 1869. Raymond was an able and polished public speaker; but his great work was in elevating the style and general tone of American journalism. He published several books, including a biography of Presi dent Lincoln, which in substance originally appeared as A His tory of the Administration of President Lincoln (1864), and which with additions has been republished under varying titles.
See Augustus Maverick, Henry J. Raymond and the New York Press for Thirty Years (1870), which includes in the appendix an auto biographical fragment, various addresses by Raymond, etc., and "Ex tracts from the Journal of Henry J. Raymond," edited by his son, Henry H. Raymond, in Scribner's Monthly (I879-80).