Lanphier, Charles Henry

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Charles Henry Lanphier
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Disputed
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    7
    Family
     Robert Goin Lanphier (father), Elizabeth Sears Lanphier (mother), Margaret Taylor Crenshaw (wife)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Journalist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Methodist
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Other state government
    Local government

    Charles H. Lanphier (Bateman, 1918)

    Reference
    LANPHIER, Charles H., journalist, was born at Alexandria, Va., April 14, 1820; from 4 years of age lived in Washington City; in 1836 entered the office as an apprentice of "The State Register" at Vandalia, Ill., (then owned by his brother-in-law, William Walters). Later, the paper was removed to Springfield, and Walters, having enlisted for the Mexican war in 1846, died at St. Louis, en route to the field. Lanphier, having thus succeeded to the management, and, finally, to the proprietorship of the paper, was elected public printer at the next session of the Legislature, and, in 1847, took into partnership George Walker, who acted as editor until 1858. Mr. Lanphier continued the publication of the paper until 1863, and then sold out. During the war he was one of the State Board of Army Auditors appointed by Governor Yates; was elected Circuit Clerk in 1864 and re-elected in 1868, and, in 1872, was Democratic candidate for State Treasurer but defeated with the rest of his party. Died March 17, 1903.
    Newton Bateman, ed., Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois (Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company, 1918), 1: 11.
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