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1825–1897
Best remembered for practical books on fire and marine insurance, this 19th-century writer also turned his eye to travel, leaving behind a lively account of an Alaska journey. His work feels rooted in the everyday business world of his time, but it still offers a clear glimpse of how people organized risk, law, and commerce in the late 1800s.
by C. C. (Charles Cole) Hine
Charles Cole Hine was an American author born in 1825 and died in 1897. Surviving catalog records connect him most strongly with insurance writing, especially books and digests on fire insurance, insurance law, and insurance decisions. Among the works associated with him are Fire Insurance, The Insurance Statutes of the United States and Canada, The Agent's Hand Book of Insurance Law (Fire Insurance), and Hine & Nichols' New Digest of Insurance Decisions, Fire and Marine.
Those titles suggest a writer who was less a literary celebrity than a practical specialist, producing reference works for agents and others working in insurance. His books appear aimed at helping readers navigate policies, statutes, legal questions, and everyday business practice in a period when insurance was becoming an increasingly important part of modern commercial life.
Hine also wrote A Trip to Alaska, showing a wider range than his professional manuals alone might suggest. Even from the limited biographical record now easily available, his bibliography leaves a strong impression of someone interested in clarity, usefulness, and the systems that shaped 19th-century American business.