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The Military Heroes of the War with Mexico: With a Narrative of the War
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History of the United States Navy: And Biographical Sketches of American Naval Heroes from the Formation of the Navy to the Close of the Mexican War
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Charles Jacobs Peterson was an American editor, publisher and author.
Background
He was born on July 20, 1819 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the eldest of the five sons of Thomas P. and Elizabeth Snelling (Jacobs) Peterson. Three of his brothers, Theophilus B. , Thomas, and George W. , later formed the book-publishing house known as T. B. Peterson & Brothers; Henry Peterson, editor, publisher, and poet, was his cousin. They were descended from Erick Pieterson (a godson of Archbishop Laurence Pieterson of Sweden) who settled with a Swedish colony on the Delaware in 1638.
Education
Charles was a non-graduate member of the class of 1838, University of Pennsylvania, later he studied law.
Career
He was admitted to the bar, but never entered upon legal practice. When George R. Graham purchased Atkinson's Casket (later Graham's Magazine) in May 1839, he associated the twenty-year-old Peterson with him in its editorship - a relation maintained until the founding of Peterson's own magazine. It has been said that a quarrel with Peterson was the reason for Poe's leaving his editorial position on Graham's, though different reasons have been assigned for that rupture by other observers.
In March 1840 Peterson purchased the interest of John DuSolle in the Saturday Evening Post, thereby becoming doubly the partner of Graham, this time in both editing and publishing. After just three years of this latter connection, he sold his interest to Samuel D. Patterson.
Acting upon a hint from Graham, he founded the Lady's World, the name of which was changed in 1843 to the Ladies' National Magazine and in 1848 to Peterson's Magazine. In this venture he took as an associate Ann Sophia Stephens, who had been connected with Graham's, and who remained a leading contributor to Peterson's until her death in 1886. Though she was sometimes listed as editor, Peterson himself was de facto editor for the forty-seven years from the founding of the magazine until his own death.
Peterson was also actively engaged in daily and weekly journalism at various times, and wrote sketches and verse for periodicals. He was an editor of Joseph C. Neal's Saturday Gazette in the middle forties. When the Philadelphia Bulletin was begun in 1847, he was one of its editorial writers; he also worked in that capacity for the Public Ledger.
He wrote The Military Heroes of the Revolution, with a Narrative of the War of Independence (1848) and similar treatments of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. In 1849 Grace Dudley, or Arnold at Saratoga appeared. This was followed by several other historical novels, including Kate Aylesford, a Story of the Refugees (1855), Mabel, or Darkness and Dawn (1857), and The Old Stone Mansion (1859). Peterson's was an expansive and genial personality, and he had a notable capacity for friendship. His friends have eulogized his cultivation, refinement, and studious habits.
He died in Philadelphia, his last days shadowed by the accidental death of an only son.
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Politics
Peterson was not necessarily defending the institution of slavery, but instead a gradualism for ending of slavery in future instead of a destruction which would fracture the United States. After the American Civil War broke out, he was clearly on the Union side.
Personality
His friends have eulogized his cultivation, refinement, and studious habits.
Connections
He married Sarah Powell, daughter of Charles Pitt Howard. They had a son.