Biographical Sketch: Charles Prosch

Title

Biographical Sketch: Charles Prosch

Subject

Newspapers

Description

Charles Prosch moved to Washington Territory in the winter of 1857-58. The following spring, he started Puget Sound Herald in Steilacoom, Fort Nisqually.

Hines explains, “He left the Herald in 1868 and moved to Olympia to perform the Territorial printing under E. L. Smith, Secretary of Territory. He purchased the Pacific Tribune… and during the session of Legislature of 1869 he published the first daily ever-printed in Territory".

He remained in publishing, working with his sons in Tacoma and Seattle until he retired in 1887. Prosch was working on his book ”Reminiscences of Washington Territory” when this biography was written.

Abstract

A short biography of Charles Prosch (1822-1913), a pioneer newspaper publisher. In 1858, he started his first newspaper in Steilacoom and later had publications based in Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle. He remained a prominent territorial newspaperman for the next twenty years.

Creator

Hines, Reverend Harvey K.

Source

Illustrated History of State of Washington

Publisher

The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL.

Date Issued

1893

Contributor

Sandra D. Chomiak

References

Prosch, Charles, b. 1820

Medium

Web

Type

history

Identifier

5065179 (OCLC/WorldCat)

Spatial Coverage

Steilacoom; Pierce

Provenance

The Internet Archive

URL

http://archive.org/stream/illustratedhisto00hine#page/391/mode/1up

Start Page

391

End Page

392

Geolocation