Charles William Henry Kirchhoff (March 28, 1853 – July 22, 1916) was a United States editor and steel expert.

Charles William Henry Kirchhoff was born in San Francisco, California on March 28, 1853.

He began his career in technical journalism in 1876, when he covered the Centennial Exposition[2] for British, German and Cape Town, South Africa, papers.

He was at one time a special agent of the United States Geological Survey for the collection of statistics of the production of copper, lead and zinc.

Beginning in 1882, he prepared chapters on certain of the heavier metals annually for the Mineral Resources of the United States.