The _Tribune_ was the first New York paper to have a managing editor. He was Dana. Serene, tactful, and a man of the world, he was able by judicious handling to keep for the _Tribune_ the services of men like Warren and Pike, who might have been repelled by the sometimes irritable Greeley. The title came from the London _Times_, where it had been used for years, perhaps borrowed from the _directeur gérant_ of the French newspapers. The _Sun_ had no managing editor until Dana bought it, Beach having preferred to direct personally all matters above the ken of the city editor. The _Sun’s_ first managing editor was Isaac W. England, whom Dana had known and liked when both were on the _Tribune_. England was of Welsh blood and English birth, having been born in Twerton, a suburb of Bath, in 1832. He worked at the bookbinding trade until he was seventeen, and then came to the United States and made his living at bookbinding and printing. He used to tell his _Sun_ associates of his triumphal return to England, when he was twenty, for a short visit, which he spent in the shop of his apprenticeship, showing his old master how much better the Yankees were at embossing and lettering. England returned to America in the steerage and saw the brutal treatment of immigrants. This he described in several articles and sold them to the _Tribune_. Greeley gave him a job pulling a hand-press at ten dollars a week, but later made him a reporter. He was city editor of the _Tribune_ until after the Civil War, and then he went with his friend Dana to Chicago for the short and profitless experience with the Chicago _Republican_. In the period between Dana’s retirement from the _Republican_ and his purchase of the _Sun_, England was manager of the Jersey City _Times_. England was managing editor of the _Sun_ only a year, then becoming its publisher--a position for which he was well fitted. An example of his business ability was given in 1877, when Frank Leslie went into bankruptcy. England was made assignee, and he handled the affairs of the Leslie concern so well that its debts were paid off in three years. This was only a side job for England, who continued all the time to manage the business matters of the _Sun_. When he died, in 1885, Dana wrote that he had “lost the friend of almost a lifetime, a man of unconquerable integrity, true and faithful in all things.”