Vintage “The Independent" Henry Chandler Bowen Hand Written Letter On Postcard For Sale
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Vintage “The Independent" Henry Chandler Bowen Hand Written Letter On Postcard:
$489.99
Up for sale a RARE! "The Independent" Henry Chandler Bowen Hand Written Letter On Postcard Dated 1875.
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Henry
Chandler Bowen (September
11, 1813 – February 24, 1896) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and
publisher. He was an influential member of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, where he resided much of his life, and the founder
of the New York-based newspaper The Independent. He
built a Gothic-style summer home named Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut,
his place of birth. Henry Chandler Bowen was born on September 11, 1813 in
Woodstock, the son of George Bowen and Lydia Wolcott Bowen (née Eaton). He was
educated at Woodstock Academy and
Dudley Academy.
He moved to New York City and
joined a dry-goods company owned by the abolitionist Arthur Tappan. Later he would open his own company Bowen and
McNamee, specializing in silks. He opened a store on 112-114 Broadway, an
Italian Marble building designed by English architect Joseph C. Wells, an architect he would work with later. The
company was renamed Bowen, Holmes and Company in 1859. In 1848, Bowen
founded The Independent, a weekly congregationalist newspaper that
was closely associated with Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, of which he was a founding member.[3] Plymouth's minister, Henry Ward Beecher, was
the editor from 1861 to 1863 and a frequent contributor. The paper was strongly
pro-abolitionist and pro-women's suffrage. Bowen served as the newspaper's
chief financier and publisher, and from 1870 until his death he was the editor
as well. The paper has a circulation of 70,000 in 1870. Abraham Lincoln was a subscriber of The Independent.
Bowen was a key figure in inviting Lincoln to speak in New York at the Cooper
Institute in February 1860, during which time he accepted Bowen's invitation to
attend Plymouth Church to hear Beecher's sermon. During the Civil
War, Bowen lost most of his clients for his silk business (many from the South)
and the company Bowen, Holmes and Company went bankrupt. By this time, he also
had considerable income from the fire insurance business as well as his
newspaper The Independent. in 1853 he established the Continental Insurance
Company.
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