page_title: Tributes to Horace Greeley
section_title: Miscellaneous
hierarchical_section_title: Tributes to Horace Greeley / Legacy and cultural references / Miscellaneous
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of Horace Greeley on US Postage stamp, issue of 1961
context_page_description: The following are among the tributes to Horace Greeley, editor of the New-York Tribune and 1872 presidential candidate:
context_section_description: The Greeley House in Chappaqua, New York, now houses the New Castle Historical Society. The Greeley House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
  In 1856, he designed and built Rehoboth, one of the first concrete structures in the United States.
  In the Publisher's Announcement in Volume III of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, A.J. Johnson stated, "the latest labors of Mr. Greeley's life were given to this work, to which he contributed largely. It is with justice, therefore, that his name is preserved in the list of its editors." Horace Greeley is listed as the editor for the topics American History, Statistics, Agriculture, etc.
  The New York Tribune building was the first home of Pace University. Today, the site where the building stood is now the One Pace Plaza complex of Pace's New York City campus. Coincidentally, Choate House, Dr. Choate's residence and private hospital, where Horace Greeley died, today is part of Pace's campus in Pleasantville, New York.
  On February 3, 1961, the US Post Office Department issued a 4-cent Horace Greeley Famous American stamp designed by Charles R. Chickering through the Chappaqua, New York, post office.
  Greeley's birthplace is featured on a New Hampshire historical marker (number 3) along New Hampshire Route 101 in Amherst.
  Horace Greeley is the subject of an anecdote recounted by Mark Twain in his lectures to the public after his return from the Sandwich Islands. The story is also retold in Roughing It. In the story, which is really a story about a story, the narrator tells of coming west on the Overland Stage and how at almost every stop someone would board the stage and, after a while, offer to tell the same humorous anecdote about Horace Greeley. It is an example of redundancy or recursiveness as a humoristic story-telling device.
  Hjalmar Schacht (full name: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht) was named after Greeley.
  Greeley's experience in the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and the early days of Denver is the basis of the 1965 episode "The Great Turkey War" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days. Parley Baer, popular character actor, was cast as Greeley, with Michael Constantine as Pollock. In the story line, a fledgling Denver is wracked by vandalism and the theft of turkeys, and Greeley is determined to tell the truth to the nation via his reporting.
caption: Horace Greeley honored on U.S. Postage stamp
  issue of 1961
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