Henry Jarvis Raymond (January 24, 1820 – June 18, 1869) was an American journalist, newspaper publisher, and politician who co-founded both the Republican Party and The New York Times.

There is no evidence to suggest that he was born in Essex, England, although Samuel Raymond's family history makes that claim, and he arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, about 1629/30, possibly with a contingent led by the Rev.

Raymond gave early evidence of his superior intellectual skills: it is said that he could read by the age of three and deliver speeches when he was five.

He enrolled at age twelve in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York, a school established by the Methodist Episcopal Church which would later become Syracuse University.

Between 1841 and 1851, Raymond worked for various newspapers, including Horace Greeley's New York Tribune and James Watson Webb's Courier and Enquirer as a journalist and associate editor.

Their son Henry Warren Raymond (1847–1925) was an 1869 graduate of Yale College, and, in the same year, was initiated as a member of the Skull and Bones secret society.

[5]: 1311–13 Their daughter Mary Elizabeth Raymond (September 10, 1849 – June 13, 1897) was born in New York City and died in Morristown, New Jersey.

[1] Raymond began his journalistic career on Horace Greeley's Tribune and gained further experience in editing James Watson Webb's Courier and Enquirer.

In the first issue of the Times Raymond announced his purpose to write in temperate and measured language and to get into a passion as rarely as possible.

We shall not make a new one, nor shall we permit any human power to destroy the one.... We seek no war—we shall wage no war except in defense of the constitution and against its foes.

"[11] "That sentiment guided the editorial course of The Times through the turbulent winter between Lincoln's election and the attack on Fort Sumter.

Because no other compromise would have been acceptable the issue inevitably had to be fought out, and from Sumter to Appomattox The Times was unwavering in its support of Lincoln and its determination that the Federal union must and should be preserved.