Frederick Raine was born May 13, 1821, in Minden, Prussia, modern day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

At 14 Raine began working with his uncle Frederick Wundermann in his Munster print shop.

In the autumn of 1840, Raine joined his father and brother Wilhelm in Baltimore, Maryland, where they had moved four years earlier.

[1] In 1841, at nineteen, Raine founded the German-language newspaper Der Deutsche Correspondent in Baltimore.

[3] Raine depended on his father’s print shop and brother’s assistance during the first years of the paper’s existence.