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Charles Nordhoff was born on August 31, 1830 in Erwitte, Westphalia, in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany). When he was five years old his parents, Charles and Adelheid (Platé) Nordhoff, emigrated with him to the United States.
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Charles Nordhoff was born on August 31, 1830 in Erwitte, Westphalia, in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany). When he was five years old his parents, Charles and Adelheid (Platé) Nordhoff, emigrated with him to the United States.
After attending school in Cincinnati Nordhoff was apprenticed at the age of thirteen to a printer.
Nordhoff served a year and then went to Philadelphia, where he worked as compositor on a newspaper. Enlisting in 1844 in the United States Navy he served three years and made, in that time, a voyage around the world. After the expiration of the term of his enlistment he spent several years on merchant vessels and in the New England fisheries.
At the age of twenty-three he gave up seafaring and took up journalism as a profession. While employed as newspaper reporter he wrote a series of books inspired largely by his own experiences as a sailor. They were the three volumes, Man-of-War Life (1855), The Merchant Vessel (1855), and Whaling and Fishing (1856) that were later collected as Nine Years a Sailor (1857), and a fourth book, Stories of the Island World (1857). His life at sea not only provided the material for his first literary production, but, by hard physical training and by broadening his field of experience and quickening his powers of observation, it gave him an invaluable training for his later career as a newspaper correspondent.
In 1857 Harper & Brothers engaged him as an editor and four years later he became managing editor of the New York Evening Post.
During the Civil War he strongly advocated the Union cause both in the columns of his paper and in a number of books and pamphlets. He published Secession is Rebellion (1860), The Freedmen of South-Carolina (1863), and America for Free Working Men (1865). He resigned from the Post in 1871 and spent the following two years in travel visiting California and Hawaii.
In 1874 the New York Herald engaged him for its Washington correspondent, a position which he filled with great success until his retirement in 1890. In Washington "he won the friendship of the leading men of the day, and a high place among the political writers of the country. His letters were recognized as the authoritative presentation of the news, and the final word on the moral merits of a controversy. He was not only one of the few correspondents in whom public men confided, but one of still fewer whom they consulted". Some of his newspaper assignments led to rather important publications.
The strongly moral and religious trend of his thinking is displayed in two books written particularly for the instruction of his children and those of his friends. They are Politics for Young Americans (1875), which had considerable vogue as a school textbook, and God and the Future Life (1883).
He spent the last years of his life in Coronado, California, partly because of his fondness for the region and partly because of the delicate health of his wife.
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All of his writing was characterized by a direct and forceful style and by a preference for simple words and short sentences. His personality was like his writing, straightforward and downright.
Nordhoff married Lida (Letford) Nordhoff.